[ESS] "Sorry, no version of R could be found on your system", for new version of R 2.12

[Evan Misshula]

________________________________________
From: spencerg [spencer.graves at prodsyse.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 11:09 AM
To: Evan Misshula
Cc: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [ESS] "Sorry, no version of R could be found on your system", for new version of R 2.12

       Sorry:  Try "system.file()", not "system.files()".  (I had a typo
in one place.)

"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-212~1.1/library/base"

       If that matches your site-start.el file, please provide the full
path to where your site-start.el file is located plus the Emacs version
number and installation directory.

Emacs 23.2 and site-start.el is in

C:\Program Files\GNU Emacs 23.2\site-lisp

       You will need help from someone who knows more than I do if this
fails.

Thank you for trying.  I really appreciate your prompt and kind response. (The world of open source support especially around installation issues is a vicious place).

Best,

Evan

       Spencer


On 12/19/2010 7:23 AM, Evan Misshula wrote:
> ________________________________________
> From: spencerg [spencer.graves at prodsyse.com]
> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 5:50 AM
> To: Evan Misshula
> Cc: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [ESS] "Sorry, no version of R could be found on your system", for new version of R 2.12
>
> 1.  What do you get for "system.files()" from within R?  The first part
> should match what you have in site-start.el.  For example, I find the
> following:
>
>
>         system.file()
>         "c:/Users/sgraves/R/R-2.12.0/library/base".
>
>
>         site-start.el includes:
>
>         (setq-default inferior-R-program-name
>                 "c:/Users/sgraves/R/R-2.12.0/bin/i386/rterm.exe")
> Is it possible that it did not install correctly.  Here is the output from system.files()...
>
>> system.files()
> Error: could not find function "system.files"
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
>
> 2.  If this fails to fix the problem, might you have more than one
> "(setq-default inferior-R-program-name ...)" statement in
> "site-start.el"?  I have only one.  (To be precise, I have many that
> start ";(setq-default ...)".  However, ";" indicates a comment.)
>
> I don't read lisp that well but everything else seems commented.  Should I attach the whole file?
>
>
> 3.  If the above fails to fix the problem, maybe you have multiple
> site-start.el files?  You might change one while the system uses another?
>
> I did a find file on windows explorer and it only returned one site-start.el (and one site-start.el~).
>
> I noticed that it requires
>
> (require 'ess-site)
> (require 'ess-eldoc)
>
>
> Could the conflict come from those files?
>
>
> Thanks for your prompt and helpful response.  Best,
>
> Evan Misshula
> CUNY John Jay
>
>
> hope this helps.
> Spencer
>
>
> On 12/18/2010 10:22 PM, EvanMisshula wrote:
>> I am having the same problem but I have added
>>
>> (setq-default
>>         inferior-R-program-name
>>                 "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.12.1\bin\i386\Rterm.exe")
>>
>> site-start.el file.  I have also added to my path, C:\Program
>> Files\R\R-2.12.1\bin\i386\.  It is still not working.  Does anyone see what
>> I am doing wrong.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Evan Misshula
>>
>>
>>
>> Stephen Eglen wrote:
>>> Chris Howden<chris at trickysolutions.com.au>   wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I just installed the new version of R on my machine and Emacs can no
>>>> longer
>>>> find it. I'm getting the below error message
>>> Did it work for a previous installation -- what did you have before in
>>> your .emacs?
>>>
>>>
>>>> (note that I tried adding them one at a time)
>>>>
>>>> ;(setq default-inferior-R-program-name "C:/Program
>>>> Files/R/R-2.12.0/bin/i386/Rterm.exe")
>>> you should have (setq-default ...)
>>> rather than (setq default-...)
>>>
>>> also I assume that the email put the newline between program and files.
>>>
>>> i.e. I'd try this:
>>> (setq-default
>>>     inferior-R-program-name
>>>     "C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-2.12.0\\bin\\i386\\Rterm.exe")
>>>
>>> in .emacs and restart.
>>>
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