[ESS] Choosing a specific version of S to run under ESS

[Richard M. Heiberger]

I am surprised you still have S-Plus 6.0 on your machine.  It should have
been retired years ago when 6.1 came out.  As you note, 6.2 is current.


In .../ess/lisp/ess-site.el are three lines (commented out)

;;(setq-default inferior-S+6-program-name "c:/progra~1/Insightful/SPLUS6/cmd/Splus")
;;(setq-default inferior-Sqpe+6-SHOME-name "c:/progra~1/Insightful/SPLUS6")
;;(setq-default inferior-Sqpe+6-program-name "c:/progra~1/Insightful/SPLUS6/cmd/Sqpe.exe")


copy all three to your .emacs file, uncomment them, and modify them to the correct
pathnames for your installation.  The default location for 6.2 is

(setq-default inferior-S+6-program-name "c:/progra~1/Insightful/SPLUS62/cmd/Splus")
(setq-default inferior-Sqpe+6-SHOME-name "c:/progra~1/Insightful/SPLUS62")
(setq-default inferior-Sqpe+6-program-name "c:/progra~1/Insightful/SPLUS62/cmd/Sqpe.exe")


The default location for the network licensed edition is

(setq-default inferior-S+6-program-name "c:/progra~1/Insightful/SPLUS62netclient/cmd/Splus")
(setq-default inferior-Sqpe+6-SHOME-name "c:/progra~1/Insightful/SPLUS62netclient")
(setq-default inferior-Sqpe+6-program-name "c:/progra~1/Insightful/SPLUS62netclient/cmd/Sqpe.exe")


The default for the student edition is

(setq-default inferior-S+6-program-name "c:/progra~1/Insightful/SPLUS62se/cmd/Splus")
(setq-default inferior-Sqpe+6-SHOME-name "c:/progra~1/Insightful/SPLUS62se")
(setq-default inferior-Sqpe+6-program-name "c:/progra~1/Insightful/SPLUS62se/cmd/Sqpe.exe")


Note that we MUST use the 8.3 version of the name "progra~1", not the embedded-blank
version "Program Files".  You need all three lines.


The current release of ESS is 5.2.3 which you can get from
http://ESS.R-project.org/

Rich