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

[Chris Howden]

I have a solution to this problem.

Bill Venables suggested I add the below line to my Path environmental
variable and that has worked

"C:\Program Files\R\R-2.12.0\bin\i386"

Thanks for everyones suggestions

Chris Howden
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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Eglen [mailto:S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk]
Sent: Monday, 18 October 2010 6:16 PM
To: Chris Howden
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

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.