[ESS] Permanently set working directoty

[Gregor Gorjanc]

> Stephen Eglen wrote:
>> Gregor Gorjanc writes:
>>  > Hello!
>>  > 
>>  > Is it possible to permanently set working directory for R session in
>>  > ESS? I am a bit annoyed with question at R session start as I always
>>  > want to start in my home.
>> 
>> hi, 
>> try looking  at the doc for the following two variables:
>>   (setq ess-ask-for-ess-directory nil)
>>   (setq ess-directory nil)
>> 
>> Stephen

Thank you Stephen. The following works for me.

(setq ess-ask-for-ess-directory nil)
(setq ess-directory "~/")

Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> "Gregor" == Gregor Gorjanc <gregor.gorjanc at bfro.uni-lj.si>
>>>>>>     on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:43:03 +0200 writes:

[snip]

> Very short answer:   Yes, RTFM!
> 
> Longer answer:
> 
>  Yes it is easily possible, and we have documented it.
> 
>  How much have you tried to find the answer in the ESS manual?
>  [This question is not rethoric:  We have acknowledged that the
>   manual has been in a relatively bad shape several years ago. 
>   OTOH, several of my ESS-core colleagues have spent many hours
>   on improving the ESS manual ... ]

Actually I have done some RTFM and found section "3.5 Changing the
startup actions", where this is described but I had problems since
manual says

"If you do not wish ESS to prompt for a starting directory when starting
a new process, set the variable `ess-ask-for-ess-directory' to `nil'.
In this case, the value of the variable `ess-directory' is used as the
starting directory.  The default value for this variable is your home
directory."

However, when I set the variable `ess-ask-for-ess-directory' to `nil' R
session starts in directory of last visited file. Say I have opened file
from "/some/where/on/my/disk" and when I fire M-x R, R starts in
"/some/where/on/my/disk" and not from my home directory. Did I do
anything wrong or is my reading of manual bad. However, as already noted
above manual setting of `ess-directory' variable solves this problem.
Perhaps manual should be modified according to this?

Thank you very much for providing such a great interface!

-- 
Lep pozdrav / With regards,
    Gregor Gorjanc

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