[ESS] Telling ess where to look for R

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

Oliver,

What Rich and Rodney are trying to figure out, is why this does not
work per default.  In general, you do not need to set a variable to
find R, ESS should find it automatically.  There are exceptions of
course.  So I think they would like you to remove what you have in
.emacs and then see what happens.

Kasper

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Oliver Jones
<ojones at wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> 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
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