[ESS] Ess-source-directory in windows

[Liaw, Andy]

Not much help to Matt, perhaps:  On WinXPPro, ESS 5.2.7, GNU Emacs 21.3.1,
XEmacs 21.4.13, R-2.1.0.  I get similar problem as Matt with XEmacs, but no
problem with GNU Emacs.

Andy

> From: Wiener, Matthew
> 
> All --
> 
> In both my unix and windows .xemacs files (actually .emacs on 
> unix), I have
> the following:
> 
> (setq ess-source-directory
>       (lambda ()
>         (concat ess-directory "R-source")))
> 
> Which allows me to keep my source in a sub-directory of my project
> directory.
> 
> In unix, it works great.  In windows, which I have just 
> started trying to
> use, I get errors like the following:
> 
> 
> Error in file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) : 
> 	unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> cannot open file 'c:R-projects
> etworkR-source.get.degree.and.dist.stats.R' 
> 
> This when my working directory is:
> > getwd()
> [1] "c:/R-projects/network"
> 
> So it looks to me like the single slashes are getting 
> clobbered by escape.
> But if I try to set the working directory with doubled windows-style
> slashes, getwd() gives me the same thing.  I've looked on the 
> web site, but
> have not been able to find a solution (or, perhaps, realize 
> I've found a
> solution).
> 
> Thanks for any help you can give.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matthew Wiener
> Applied Computer Science & Mathematics
> Merck Research Laboratories
> Rahway, NJ 07065
> 732-594-5303
> 
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