[ESS] startup options lime --no-save etc

[Martin Maechler]

Yes, indeed.

Note that --vanilla  is really not something I'd recommend,  however

I use (and recommend)  [.. well not really, see further ..]

     (setq inferior-R-args "--no-restore-history --no-save ")

or actually, I have the following line among the many  in the
(custom-set-variables ......)
clause that customizations create and modify:

   '(inferior-R-args "--no-restore-history --no-save ")


Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Stephen Eglen
<S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 14 2013, Jannis wrote:
>
>> Dear ESS users,
>>
>>
>> is it possible to tell emacs/ess to use some of R's startup options
>> (like --vanilla, --no-save etc) when starting R? And, if yes, how do i
>> define these?
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>>
>> Jannis
>>
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>
> Sure; this is from our help pages:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>    Note that R has some extremely useful command line arguments.  For
> example, `--vanilla' will ensure R starts up without loading in any init
> files.  To enter a command line argument, call R using a "prefix
> argument", by
>
>    C-u M-x R
>
>    and when ESS prompts for "Starting Args ? ", enter (for example):
>
>    `--vanilla'
>
>    Then that R process will be started up using `R --vanilla'.  If you
> wish to always call R with certain arguments, set the variable
> `inferior-R-args' accordingly.
>
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