[ESS] Telling ess where to look for R

[Thompson,Paul]

Yeah, I used to override those default locations for things. Generally things work better if the standard location is accepted.

-----Original Message-----
From: ess-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:ess-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Richard M. Heiberger
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 12:07 PM
To: Kasper Daniel Hansen
Cc: ess-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [ESS] Telling ess where to look for R

ESS is not finding R by default because he did not install R into the default location.
He installed into
C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/username/Eigene Dateien"

The default location is
(in English locales)
c:/Program Files/R/

I think that will be
c:/Programme/R/
in German.  R will put it in the right place as long as you don't overrule the default.


Kasper's advice is based on accepting the default location when R is installed.

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen < kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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