[ESS] Problem starting specific R version

[Henric Winell]

Hi Alex,

On 2018-07-14 14:57, Alex Branham wrote:

> Hi Henric,
> 
> We've made an adjustment to how this works on Windows. Is it working now 
> for you?

I can confirm that it now works for me.  Many thanks to the 
ESS-developers for the fix!

Best,
Henric


> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2018, 9:53 AM Henric Winell <nilsson.henric using gmail.com 
> <mailto:nilsson.henric using gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Alex,
> 
>     On 2018-07-01 17:27, Alex Branham wrote:
> 
>      > Hi Henric -
>      >
>      > Thanks. I forgot how Windows handles different R versions.
>      >
>      > I've pushed a commit to my personal branch that I think fixes this. I
>      > did it on a separate branch that contains some other work though
>     so the
>      > line numbers won't match up with what you have.
>      >
>      >
>     https://github.com/jabranham/ESS/commit/30e544aa0f4deaf46d210945a15f9c6209dfbb15
>      >
>      > If you can test it, that would be much appreciated. Let me know
>     if you
>      > can't though and I'll figure out some other way.
> 
>     Unfortunately, using the versions of ess-mode.el and ess-r-mode.el
>     referenced above doesn't work for me.  I get the following warning when
>     starting Emacs:
> 
>     Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading
>     ‘c:/Users/henwin/.emacs’:
> 
>     Wrong type argument: stringp, (lambda (&rest --cl-rest--) Start this
>     process version in an inferior ESS buffer.
>     Function defined using `ess-define-runner'. (interactive P) (apply
>     (quote (lambda (G0 G1 G2 &optional start-args) (cond ((string=
>     (symbol-value G1) R) (let ((inferior-ess-r-program (or (symbol-value
>     G0)
>     (symbol-value G2)))) (R start-args))) ((string= (symbol-value G1) S)
>     (let ((inferior-S+-program (or (symbol-value G0) (symbol-value G2))))
>     (require (quote ess-sp6-d)) (S+))) ((string= (symbol-value G1) SAS)
>     (let
>     ((inferior-SAS-program (or (symbol-value G0) (symbol-value G2))))
>     (require (quote ess-sas-d)) (SAS)))))) (quote --path--) (quote
>     --dialect--) (quote --name--) --cl-rest--))
> 
> 
>     When byte-compiling ess-r-mode.el I get the following:
> 
>     Compiling file c:/Users/henwin/Desktop/ess-r-mode.el at Mon Jul  2
>     16:46:48 2018
> 
>     In ess-r-define-runners:
>     ess-r-mode.el:668:41:Warning: ess-define-runner called with 3
>     arguments, but
>           accepts only 2
>     ess-r-mode.el:668:78:Warning: function ‘mapcar*’ from cl package
>     called at
>           runtime
> 
> 
> 
>     Best,
>     Henric
> 
> 
> 
>      >
>      > Thanks!
>      > Alex
>      >
>      > On Sun 01 Jul 2018 at 09:40, Henric Winell
>     <nilsson.henric using gmail.com <mailto:nilsson.henric using gmail.com>> wrote:
>      >
>      >> Hi Alex,
>      >>
>      >> On 2018-07-01 15:51, Alex Branham wrote:
>      >>
>      >>> Thanks. I think the solution is to change "car" to "cdr" in
>      >>> ess-r-define-runners in ess-r-mode.el. It's hard for me to test
>     this,
>      >>> though, since I don't have a windows machine.
>      >>
>      >> IIUC, you'd like to change 'car' to 'cdr' on L733:
>      >>
>      >> https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/blob/master/lisp/ess-r-mode.el#L733
>      >>
>      >> ?
>      >>
>      >> I just tried this change, but then 'M-x R-[TAB]' results in
>      >>
>      >> Click on a completion to select it.
>      >> In this buffer, type RET to select the completion near point.
>      >>
>      >> Possible completions are:
>      >> R-fix-T-F    R-initialize-on-start
>      >> R-mode       R-newest
>      >> R-transcript-mode
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> Best,
>      >> Henric
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>>
>      >>> Are you familiar at all with elisp? If so, can you try changing
>     it to
>      >>> see if that solves your problem? (you'll have to restart Emacs
>     after changing it)
>      >>>
>      >>> If not, I'll find another way to test, just let me know.
>      >>>
>      >>> Thanks,
>      >>> Alex
>      >>>
>      >
>