[ESS] Install experiences
Vitalie Spinu
spinuvit at gmail.com
Thu Nov 28 23:41:54 CET 2013
Hi Frede,
That is just awesome. I will look into how to merge all this into ESS as
soon as I can.
Thanks a lot,
Vitalie
>>> Frede Aakmann Tøgersen on Thu, 28 Nov 2013 15:03:16 +0100 wrote:
> Hi
> To follow up my previous mail I just couldn't resist trying to do some lisp coding. So here is what I could come up with.
> (setq reg-key "hklm\\software\\wow6432Node\\R-core\\R")
> (defun R-versions (reg-key)
> (setq all (w32reg-read-key reg-key))
> (setq versions (nth 2 all))
> (dolist (key versions)
> (setq loop-key (concat reg-key "\\" key))
> (setq tmp (cddr (car (nth 1 (w32reg-read-key loop-key)))))
> (add-to-list 'result tmp))
> (nreverse result)
> )
> (setq Rversions (R-versions reg-key))
> Now
> Rversions's value is (("C:\\Programmer\\R\\R-3.0.0")
> ("C:\\Programmer\\R\\R-devel")
> ("C:\\Programmer\\R\\R-3.0.2")
> ("C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-3.0.1"))
> I will leave profiling to an experienced lisp coder ;-)
> Yours sincerely / Med venlig hilsen
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ess-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:ess-help-bounces at r-
>> project.org] On Behalf Of Vitalie Spinu
>> Sent: 28. november 2013 03:52
>> To: Paul Johnson
>> Cc: Richard M. Heiberger; ess-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [ESS] Install experiences
>>
>> >>> Paul Johnson on Wed, 27 Nov 2013 19:54:29 -0600 wrote:
>>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > Concerning reading the registry, I expect that Gabor Grothendieck knows
>> how
>> > to read the registry to get the R location. We could learn how this is done
>> > from the source code for NPPTOR and/or RStudio. They both manage it. I
>> > notice that RStudio seems to get it right, almost invariably, while NPPTOR
>> > is only about 70% right.
>>
>>
>> It looks like we are talking more than doing on this issue for 2 years
>> already. It is just one system call, isn't it?
>>
>> It is really unfortunate that almost all ESS core developers are Windows
>> illiterates, but what can we do about it?
>>
>> So please, could someone with bare minimum of knowledge of windows batch
>> scripting look into Gabor's script at
>> https://batchfiles.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/R.bat and isolate the system
>> call that retrieves R location from the registry?
>>
>> Let's solve this issue once and forever.
>>
>> Vitalie
>>
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