[ESS] Telling ess where to look for R

Tue Jan 22 18:06:28 CET 2013

That's the solution. I think it's worth adding a hint to the help text you get after
M-x custonize-variable RET ess-directory-containing-R RET

Am 22.01.2013 17:08, schrieb Kevin R. Coombes:
> My .emacs file contains the following two lines:
> (setq ess-directory-containing-R "C:")
> (require 'ess-site)
>
> This works to find versions of R stored in C:\R\R-2.15.1, etc. On my machine, it does NOT work
> if you interchange the order of the two lines. After the ess-site code is loaded, something
> has already been set that does not get changed when you set the ess-directory-containing-R
> variable.
>
> -- Kevin
>
>
> On 1/21/2013 12:19 PM, Oliver Jones wrote:
>> No, that is not the problem.
>> ESS finds R by default. The problem is, it finds just the properly installed, but old
>> version of R, i.e. C:/Programme/R/R-2.10.1.
>>
>> I was looking for a way to tell ESS to look at
>>
>> C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\ojones\Eigene Dateien
>>
>> because as the manual says ess-directory-containing-R is the variable containing the path to R.
>>
>> In the above directory I have to folders. One for each version of R, i.e.
>>
>> C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/ojones/Eigene Dateien/R/R-2.15.2/
>> and
>> C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/ojones/Eigene Dateien/R/R-2.15.0/
>>
>> But the variable ess-directory-containing-R seems to be ignored, as long as ESS finds any
>> R-Version in the default location, i.e.
>> (in English locales) c:/Program Files/R/
>> (in German) c:/Programme/R/
>>
>> The manual dosen't make this clear!
>>
>> So the solution in my case was to M-x customize-variable RET inferior-R-program-name RET to
>> "C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/ojones/Eigene Dateien/R/R-2.15.2/bin/i386/Rterm.exe"
>>
>> So maybe it's not a bug, but a behaviour of ess-directory-containing-R that is not well
>> documented?
>>
>>
>> Am 21.01.2013 19:07, schrieb Richard M. Heiberger:
>>> 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
>>> <mailto: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 <mailto: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>
>>> >> <mailto: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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