[ESS] Upgraded to El Capitan (OS X 10.11) and ESS Cannot Find R

[Vincent Goulet]

Hi Stephen,

Great minds think alike! ;-)

;;; import-env-from-shell.el --- Make Emacs use the environment set up by the user's shell

;; Copyright (C) 2013-2014 Vincent Goulet

;; Author: Vincent Goulet

;; This file is a modified version of exec-path-from-shell.el by
;; Steve Purcell <steve using sanityinc.com>
;; URL: https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell


> Le 1 oct. 2015 à 16:41, Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen using damtp.cam.ac.uk> a écrit :
> 
> hi Vincent/Marc,
> 
> Is it worth adding this to the Emacs.app that Vincent kindly bundles?
> 
> https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell
> 
> (apologies if you already have this).
> 
> Stephen
> 
> On Thu, Oct 01 2015, Vincent Goulet wrote:
> 
>>> Le 1 oct. 2015 à 15:54, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz using me.com> a écrit :
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Using ess-15.09 with Emacs 24.5, which worked fine on OS X Yosemite until yesterday.
>>> 
>>> I know that this has been reported on prior versions of OS X and have attempted the proposed solutions, but I am at a loss to figure this one out at the moment.
>>> 
>>> I upgraded to the new El Capitan yesterday and now ESS cannot find R. I get the familiar:
>>> 
>>> no such file or directory, R
>>> 
>>> when using M-x R.
>> 
>> Same here.
>> 
>>> I did a re-install of R as well, along with XQuartz.
>> 
>> Reinstalling R 3.2.2 fixed the issue for me. I guess this reinstated the symlink in /usr/local/bin.
>> 
>>> R.app (the standard OS X GUI) finds R without issue and I can run R from the OS X shell (Terminal). 
>>> 
>>> When I use:
>>> 
>>> M-x shell
>>> 
>>> in Emacs, I can then run R without issue within the shell. So the $PATH seems to be picked up correctly in those settings to /usr/local/bin/R.
>>> 
>>> I do have the location added to $PATH in my ~/.bash_profile and I have a line in my .emacs:
>>> 
>>> (setenv "PATH" "/usr/texbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin")
>>> 
>>> so the path is set there as as well, so that Emacs will pick up $PATH when run from the dock, which I know has been an issue.
>> 
>> Did you check the Emacs variable exec-path? I think this one is the key. My distribution has a patch to correctly import the shell environment at Emacs startup. For example, I have:
>> 
>> exec-path is a variable defined in `C source code'.
>> Its value is
>> ("/opt/local/bin/" "/opt/local/sbin/" "~/bin/" "/usr/local/bin/" "/usr/bin/" "/bin/" "/usr/sbin/" "/sbin/" "/opt/X11/bin/" "/Library/TeX/texbin/" "/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin-x86_64-10_9/" "/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec-x86_64-10_9/" "/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec/")
>> 
>> Hope this helps!
>> 
>> v.
>> 
>>> Anyone else upgrade yet and/or have recommendations based upon fresh eyes?
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> Marc Schwartz
>>> 
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