[ESS] Emacs ESS cannot find R onmacos 10.12.6

[Robert Baskin]

Thank you very much.  The instructions are very clear and now I have a functional R session within an Emacs buffer:
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> > if(identical(getOption('pager'), file.path(R.home('bin'), 'pager'))) # rather take the ESS one
+       options(pager='cat')
> options(STERM='iESS', str.dendrogram.last="'", editor='emacsclient', show.error.locations=TRUE)
> getwd()
[1] "/Users/rmbaskin”>>

Thank you very much - bob



> On Sep 13, 2017, at 5:18 PM, Stephen Eglen <sje30 using cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> hi Robert,
> 
> 
> try the following steps and do report back
> 
> 1. On your mac, open terminal and start R from within the terminal.  if
> that works, what does "which R" report?  
> 
> 2. If 1 worked, open Emacs from within this terminal, and then do
> 
> M-x shell
> 
> to get a terminal within Emacs.  Does "R" work now, and if so, is it
> finding the right version of R (which R)?
> 
> If it doesn't find R, ESS probably won't work either.  Check your PATH
> within Emacs.
> 
> [I'm not sure Emacs will find R if you start Emacs from the "floating
> bar" thing, rather than from within a terminal, as you need to ensure
> your PATH etc is set up for Emacs to inherit it.]
> 
> 3. If step 2 worked, M-x R should work.
> 
> If not, what does it say?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 13 2017, Robert Baskin wrote:
> 
>> I cannot get Emacs ESS to find R.
>> 
>> The error message:
>> "Finding all versions of R on your system...
>> Sorry, no version of R could be found on your system."
>> 
>> I can’t find any message on ess-help and the only similar message I can find on SO:
>> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31365411/how-to-invoke-ess-r-in-emacs-on-windows>
>> 
>> I have tried reloading Emacs ESS:
>> "GNU Emacs 25.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS appkit-1265.21 Version 10.9.5 (Build 13F1911))
>> of 2017-04-21
>> Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
>> downloaded from:
>> <https://vigou3.github.io/emacs-modified-macos/>
>> 
>> I have updated R:
>> "R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30) -- "Single Candle"
>> Copyright (C) 2017 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)"
>> 
>> The macOS is Sierra, v10.12.6.
>> 
>> Any suggestions on how to solve this?
>> 
>> thanks - bob
>> 
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