[ESS] M-x R-version

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Stephen Eglen
<S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> We need to update the following defvar; can someone else on ess-core do
> this, as my local setup needs fixing.
>
> (defvar ess-r-versions (if (eq system-type 'darwin)
>                            '("R-1" "R-2" "R-3" "R-devel"
>                              "R-patched" "R32" "R64")
>                          '("R-1" "R-2" "R-3" "R-devel" "R-patched"))
> ...)

Thanks Steven. Want to be future proof and put R-4 in there as well :) ?

Kasper

>
> On Sat, Mar 23 2013, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh at temple.edu> wrote:
>>> I see two possibilities, and I haven't checked either.
>>>
>>> 1.  Did you restart emacs after installing R-3.0?  The aliases are defined
>>> at start time.
>>>
>>> 2. R-3.0 is not a valid R-core name.  I have R-3.0.0alpha on my machine.  At
>>> release, I will have R-3.0.0
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> It is not 1) (and I have of course also checked that the symlink works
>> etc.)  I think it is something like 2) and I guess I am wondering how
>> ESS knows what R-core considers valid names.  It would be very weird
>> (I think) if I had to name something 3.0-alpha.  And how would ESS
>> keep current with R, unless one updates ESS regularly (ok, I do, but
>> still)
>>
>> Kasper
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Rich
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen
>>> <kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Emacs 24.2.1, Ess 13.03 (same issue with 12.09-2)
>>>>
>>>> Usually, Mx R-$version allows me to start any R-$version, even for
>>>> "weird" $versions like R-2.15.x.
>>>>
>>>> I now have a symlink to R-3.0 in my path, seemingly exactly as I have
>>>> symlinks to many other versions of R.  But M-x R-3.0 does not work.
>>>> Is there some kind of regular expression at work here?
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Kasper
>>>>
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