[ESS] Using R and ess-directory

[Charles C. Berry]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Alexander Stoddard wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I am using R 2.3.1 with ESS 5.3.3 in GNU emacs 21.2 running under Mac
> OS 10.4.
>
> I am hoping to use a customization as described in section 7.8 of the
> manual, "Names and locations of dump files", to set the ess-source-
> directory like so:
>
> (setq ess-source-directory
>            (lambda ()
>               (concat ess-directory "Src/")))
>
>
> Reading section 3.5 "Changing the startup actions" makes me expect
> the default behavior (with ess-ask-for-ess-directory set to "t") to
> set the value of ess-directory. However it seems that ess-directory
> is still nil after starting R with "M-R". (I note that a variable
> called "default-directory" is set to directory where I start R).
>
> Do I need to set ess-directory manually or is something wrong?
>

Putting

 	(setq ess-source-directory "Src/")

in my inferior-ess-mode-hook section seems to do it.

ess-directory IS nil.

Browse ess-cust.el. Possibly the docs are dated.


> Many thanks,
> Alex Stoddard
>
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