[ESS] feature request: look more places for R on windows
Ross Boylan
ross at biostat.ucsf.edu
Thu Mar 28 01:30:24 CET 2013
I've installed R as a regular user on Windows 7. I accepted the default
path of
C:\Users\rdboylan\Documents\R\R-2.15.3\
Apparently ESS doesn't look there, because it says it couldn't find an
installed version of R when it starts. It would be nice if it checked
for regular user installations too.
This is not a big deal for me since I have (setq inferior-R-program-name
"C:/Users/rdboylan/Documents/R/R-2.15.3/bin/i386/Rterm.exe") in my
.emacs file. So M-x R works fine. But my solution is quite brittle,
because I have to remember to update it when I change my R version.
Of course, I welcome suggestions for better approaches I could
implement. I suppose I could find the code that currently searches for
R versions and adapt it to work for my directory.
Thanks.
Ross Boylan
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