[ESS] Setting paths to R versions in different directories

Martin Maechler maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Thu Oct 23 12:38:38 CEST 2014


>>>>> Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk>
>>>>>     on Mon, 20 Oct 2014 09:21:11 +0100 writes:

    >> One last thing, ess-r-versions doesn't sounds right to me. Shouldn't it
    >> be something like `ess-R-program-start-strings` or
    >> `ess-R-program-partial-names`?

    > I agree; your two choices would be more appropriate.  I doubt many
    > people have customized this variable, so I think renaming it shouldn't
    > hurt (with a defalias for the old var?).

    > Stephen

Sounds good  {particularly with the defalias for safety!}...
even I have not customized it anymore..

Martin



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