[ESS] ESS M-x R failing in a Windows installation

[Dominic Steinitz]

I am not on windows but for me a way round this is to start R in a shell (in emacs) and then ess-remote. I’ve moved on to using direnv and lorri but that’s not an option for windows.
 
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>   1. Re:  ESS M-x R failing in a Windows installation (Jeremie Juste)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2021 22:37:44 +0100
> From: Jeremie Juste <jeremiejuste using gmail.com>
> To: Steve Gutreuter via ESS-help <ess-help using r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [ESS] ESS M-x R failing in a Windows installation
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> Hello Steve,
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> Yest this is a known problem on windows.
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> A temporary solution might be to use the command M-x ess-r-newest.
> For my part I have rebinded  the above command to a key C-'.
> It is not the best solution but it works for me.
> If I come up with a better fix I'll update.
> 
> HTH,
> Jeremie
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> On Friday,  5 Mar 2021 at 15:51, Steve Gutreuter via ESS-help wrote:
>> M-x R is returning the message "Searching for program: No such file or
>> directory, Rterm" under MS Windows.
>> 
>> R 4.0.3 is installed in c:\Program Files\R\4.0.3, and Rterm.exe is
>> present in c:/Program Files/R/R-4.0.3/bin/x64.
>> My path environment variable includes c:\Program Files\R\4.0.3.
>> R starts fine outside of Emacs.
>> My .emacs file includes:
>>    (require 'ess-rutils)
>>    (setq inferior-ess-r-program "c:/Program
>> Files/R/R-4.0.3/bin/x64/Rterm.exe)
>> I am using Vincent Goulet's emacs-26.1-modified-2.exe and
>> emacs-27.1-modified-1.exe which bundle ESS within the Emacs
>> installation.
>> Everything worked fine under Emacs 26.1 and earlier.  I upgraded to
>> Emacs 27.1 and M-x R still worked.  I backed down to Emacs 26.1 and
>> now M-x R is broken.
>> 
>> I am baffled as to why ESS is not finding R.  Any clues?
>> 
>> Many thanks
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> Jeremie Juste
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