[ESS] [R] Emacs ESS finding all versions of R

[Alex Olssen]

Thanks Rich,

I am using 32-bit windows.  I have no other lines in my .emacs, and I
have never adjusted my site-start.el files manually. I did a clean
install of emacs, and then installed AUCTeX - which works fine. Then I
installed emacs.

I opened emacs using
  emacs -Q

I then typed
  M-x load-file
followed by
  c:/Program Files/emacs-23.3/site-lisp/ess-5.14/lisp/ess-site.el

emacs responded with
"Finding all versions of R on your system"
and then froze again.

I should probably mention that my home drive (H:/) is on a server but
I have installed emacs on my computers hard drive (C:/).

Perhaps I should install everything directly on H:/?

Alex

On 12 September 2011 08:39, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh at temple.edu> wrote:
> Alex,
>
> This query belongs on the ESS list
> ess-help at r-project.org
> Please place any followup questions there.
>
> You seem to have accepted the default location of R, so ESS should just
> work.
> The only line you need in ~/.emacs
> is
> (require 'ess-site)
> The other lines you mention cause interference and should not be there.
> I assume you have 32-bit windows since you mentioned i386/ but did not
> mention x64/
> The i386/Rterm.exe and x64/Rterm.exe are the relevant executable files.
> ESS will find them.
>
> It is possible that you have other lines in your .emacs or in your
> site-start.el files and they are causing
> trouble.
>
> Start emacs without any initialization files
>    emacs -Q
> And then manually load the ess-site.el file.
>
> Please report back to the ESS mailing list
>
> Rich
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Alex Olssen <alex.olssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear R-help,
>>
>> Apologies if this isn't exactly the right place for this question.
>>
>> I am trying to run R in emacs using ESS.  I have done this
>> successfully many times - it works right now on my home computer in
>> windows 7 and in ubuntu.
>>
>> The problem is that when I start emacs the regular splash screen
>> doesn't show.  In the mini-buffer I get the message "Finding all
>> versions of R on your system".  And then emacs just freezes up.
>>
>> I am running windows xp.
>>
>> emacs is located at
>> C:\Program Files\emacs-23.3\bin\emacs
>>
>> I have an ess-5.14 folder at
>> C:\Program Files\emacs-23.3\site-lisp\ess-5.14
>>
>> R is located at
>> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.13.1\bin\R
>> or
>> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.13.1\bin\i386\Rterm
>> ?
>>
>> In my ~/.emacs file I have tried included only the following lines
>> (require 'ess-site)
>> and
>> (require 'ess-site)
>> (setq inferior-R-program-name "C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-2.13\\bin\\R")
>> as well as many variations on the R path, including \, /, and going to
>> Rterm instead.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex Olssen
>>
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