[ESS] recognizing R-alpha with ESS

[Mark W Kimpel]

Martin,

I have R-alpha in my ~/R_HOME and a link to it in my ~/bin. R-alpha is 
invokable using ./R-alpha from either directory from bash. I put your 
code in my .emacs file. ESS, however, is either still not seeing R-alpha 
or I am not using it properly. From the ESS menu within Emacs, under 
"Start Process" I have R and Other -> R-newest. Both invoke R-2.6.1, 
also on my PATH.

What am I doing wrong?

Mark

Mark W. Kimpel MD  ** Neuroinformatics ** Dept. of Psychiatry
Indiana University School of Medicine

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Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> "MWK" == Mark W Kimpel <mwkimpel at gmail.com>
>>>>>>     on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:17:41 -0400 writes:
> 
>     MWK> I just compiled R-alpha and put it on my PATH (Ubuntu). ESS is not 
>     MWK> recognizing it as newest or devel or anything else.
> 
>     MWK> Do I need to rename it?
> 
> Yes, or (rather)
> put the following somewhere in your emacs start up code
> (e.g. ~/.emacs):
> 
> -----8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<-----
> 
> ;;; R-patched and R-devel are now autocreated from ESS :
> 
> ;; but these are not :
> (defun R-beta (&optional start-args)
>   "Call the current beta version of R (using ESS)."
>   (interactive "P") (let ((inferior-R-program-name "R-beta")) (R start-args)))
> (defun R-alpha (&optional start-args)
>   "Call the current alpha version of R (using ESS)."
>   (interactive "P") (let ((inferior-R-program-name "R-alpha")) (R start-args)))
> (defun R-rc (&optional start-args)
>   "Call the current rc (Release Candidate) version of R (using ESS)."
>   (interactive "P") (let ((inferior-R-program-name "R-rc")) (R start-args)))
> (defun R-pre-rel (&optional start-args)
>   "Call the current Pre-rel(ease) version of R (using ESS)."
>   (interactive "P") (let ((inferior-R-program-name "R-pre-rel")) (R start-args)))
> 
> -----8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<-----
> 
> which is from our group's  ~/.emacs equivalent.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 
>     MWK> Mark
>     MWK> -- 
> 
>     MWK> Mark W. Kimpel MD  ** Neuroinformatics ** Dept. of Psychiatry
>     MWK> Indiana University School of Medicine
> 
>     MWK> 15032 Hunter Court, Westfield, IN  46074
> 
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> 
>     MWK> mwkimpel<at>gmail<dot>com
> 
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