[ESS] Telling ess where to look for R

[Oliver Jones]

Ok,

do I load ess-site via
M-x load-file RET
and then the file ess-site.el from emacs-24.2\site-lisp\ess-12.09-2\lisp\?

If so then I get still the same result that the path to R in my variable 
ess-directory-containing-R is not recognized.



Am 21.01.2013 18:19, schrieb Richard M. Heiberger:
> There is probably something in your .emacs or site-start.el that is interfering.
>
> Please start
> emacs -Q
> then load ess-site
> then set ess-directory-containing-R
> then start R
>
> Rich
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Oliver Jones <ojones at wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de
> <mailto:ojones at wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi everyone,
>
>     I just found out how to tell ess where to look for R under Windows XP.
>     Maybe other have similar problems and this helps...
>     Maybe I found a bug?
>
>     Situation:
>     Windows XP; Emacs 24.2.1; ESS version 12.09-2; R-2.10.1 properly installed and two more
>     recent versions of R in my folder "C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/username/Eigene Dateien"
>
>     M-x customize-variable RET ess-directory-containing-R RET
>
>     and setting it to "C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/username/Eigene Dateien" doesn't help,
>     i.e. ess always starts the old (but properly installed) R-2.10.1.
>
>     One has to change the inferior-R-program-name, i.e.
>
>     M-x customize-variable RET inferior-R-program-name RET
>
>     and setting that one to "C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/username/Eigene Dateien".
>
>     So for what do we need/use the variable ess-directory-containing-R?
>
>     Best
>     Oliver
>     --
>     ___________________________________________________________________________________
>     Universität Bielefeld
>     Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften
>     Lehrstuhl für Ökonometrie und Statistik
>     Raum / room:  V9-108
>     Tel / phone: +49 (0)521 106 4895 <tel:%2B49%20%280%29521%20106%204895>
>     http://www.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.__de/oekonometrie.html
>     <http://www.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de/oekonometrie.html>
>
>     ________________________________________________
>     ESS-help at r-project.org <mailto:ESS-help at r-project.org> mailing list
>     https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/__listinfo/ess-help
>     <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help>
>
>

-- 
_______________________________________________________________________________
Universität Bielefeld
Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Lehrstuhl für Ökonometrie und Statistik
Raum / room:  V9-108
Tel / phone:  +49 (0)521 106 4895
http://www.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de/oekonometrie.html