[ESS] system from emacs-ess

[A.J. Rossini]

Something like:

my.path <- Sys.getenv("PATH")

Sys.putenv(paste("PATH=",my.path,"/",PathToSeadas.env)

etc... 


On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 20:31:05 +0000, Angel Lopez <angel_lul at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks,
> Yes, I think you are right. When I call emacs from the bash console
> instead of clicking on my kde icon, the system call works fine.
> I've tried to find how to setenv in R but I didn't manage. I've done
> help.search("setenv") and the best match seems to be Sys.putenv(base)
> but I can not find how to add a Path and run the file seadas.env.
> Thanks,
> Angel
> 
> A.J. Rossini wrote:q
> > I can never remember if you should be using .bashrc or .profile for
> > non-login shells, but it's probably a login shell vs. not issue as far
> > as getting the path to be set.  You might consider using the R
> > internal setenv commands to make sure it's in your path.
> >
> > best,
> > -tony
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:56:58 +0100, Angel Lopez <angel_lul at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Dear all,
> >>I am trying to call seadas (a satellite data proccessing software) from
> >>R using the "system" command.
> >>I call seadas using system("seadas -em").
> >>When I run R from the bash console it works fine but when I run R under
> >>emacs-ess I get the message
> >>system("seadas -em")
> >>sh: seadas: command not found
> >>To install seadas I had to modify my /etc/bash.bashrc file to add the
> >>seadas directory to the path and to run a file seadas.env.
> >>It seems like if that is not noticed under the shell emacs uses.
> >>I've also tried
> >>
> >>>system("bash seadas -em")
> >>
> >>bash: seadas: No such file or director
> >> I use Debian GNU/Linux.
> >>Thanks,
> >>Angel
> >>
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> >>
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 


-- 
best,
-tony

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