[ESS] Anyone having trouble with R 3.0.0 and Emacs/ESS on windows?

[Joshua Wiley]

Hi Bill,

I use the same setup, except with Goulet's most recent Emacs 24.3 with
ESS 12.09-2.  I have not had any trouble with it.  Although I should
point out that it may be related to:

> strsplit(Sys.getenv("PATH"), ";")
[[1]]
 [1] "c:\\usr\\Rtools\\bin"
 [2] "c:\\usr\\Rtools\\gcc-4.6.3\\bin"
 [3] "c:\\usr\\R\\R-devel\\bin\\x64"
[snip]

Probably not what you want to hear but could also try:

(setq inferior-R-program-name "/path/to/R/R-3.0.0/bin/x64/Rterm.exe")

in your .emacs

Recently mine has been hanging if I do: `[[`(  like its trying to pull
up the argument list but gets stuck, but I do not think that is unique
to R 3.0.0, so think it is a separate issue.

Cheers,

Josh




On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 10:14 PM,  <Bill.Venables at csiro.au> wrote:
> I have just installed R 3.0.0 for Windows (Windows 7, 64-bit OS) .
>
> The Rgui works fine.
>
> But to my horror I find it does not work with Emacs/ESS.   I have burnt my bridges rather, so I am in a bit of a pickle.
>
> Curiously, if I start a shell within Emacs, I cannot start R going within the shell, but
>
> R CMD Sweave file.Rnw
>
> works fine!  Of course all the editing features with ESS are unaffected, also.
>
> Inside a shell, I get the following:
>
> 14:54 - BlockDesign$ R
> Fatal error: you must specify '--save', '--no-save' or '--vanilla'
>
> this is a cygwin shell within emacs.  The same thing happens with a cygwin shell outside emacs.
>
> If I issue, for example R --save, then R starts, but in batch mode.  I.e. the first error that happens causes R to barf and die.
>
> Trying to start an R process gives a different error.  M-x R  complains that it can't find "Rterm", and dies.  With R-2.15.3 and previous, pressing tab after M-x R gave a menu including both 32-bit and 64-bit, for example.
>
> If I abandon the cygwin shell within Emacs and use a dos shell, then the same things happens, but curiously with a dos shell outside Emacs, R works as normal.
>
> For info, I am using Vincent Goulet's Emacs all-in-one and ESS 12.09, rev. 5167 2012-09-24, so it's not exactly an antiquated system.
>
> Help!
>
> Bill.
>
> Bill Venables
> Post-Retirement Research Fellow
> CSIRO/CMIS, Ecosciences Precinct,
> Dutton Park, Qld. Australia, 4102
>
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> Bill Venables
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