[ESS] Finding all versions of R on Windows when R not in default directory

[Richard M. Heiberger]

McKay,

Here is a workaround for those who are not faint-of-heart in working with
.el files.
If it works for you and others, we can put it in a future release of ESS.

In your example, select the second line and comment out the first.
I tested it on Windows 7 with ESS 12.04-4 using the first line and the
third line.

On proper installation, the first three lines will become potential values
for a new
customized variable, and the first line will be the default value.

Rich



On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:25 PM, S. McKay Curtis
<s.mckay.curtis at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I recently installed R in a Windows directory other than the default
>
> "C:/R/R-2.15.1/"
>
> rather than
>
> "C:/Program Files/R/R-2.15.1"
>
> to help Rcpp play nice on Windows.  Unfortunately, ESS cannot find any
> versions of R on my system now.  My "exec-path" contains a path to the
> "bin" folder of the new installation of R, and I even tried adding
> two additional paths to the "exec-path" (the "bin/i386" and "bin/x64"), but
> this did not seem to help.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
> McKay
>
> P.S. I'm using Vincent Goulet's fabulous windows Emacs bundle, if that's
> useful information for anybody.
>
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