[ESS] Finding Rterm in R 2.12.0 on Windows

[Rodney Sparapani]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Paul Johnson<pauljohn32 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
> The only big Vista/Win7 complication I see is that "VirtualStore"
> disaster. When I try to configure something in ESS or install an R
> package and I'm not acting as the administrator, then Windows tries to
> "fool me" by installing the app in a hidden part of the user  account,
> in a folder named like
> C:\Users\pauljohn\AppData\...\LocalSettings\VirtualStore\.  Then it
> creates an "illusion" that it did install into C:\Program Files\R by
> re-routing my user requests from the C:\Program Files area into that
> VirtualStore.  So after I log off, then other users come along and R
> packages or Emacs ESS config changes I made are not available to them.
>

This is exactly the problem that I described.  The only issue was
with my ascribing it to 32-bit vs. 64-bit application installers.  As it
turns out, it is something even more sinister.  Does this "feature"
have a name?

Rodney