[ESS] ESS confused about newest R
Kevin R. Coombes
kev|n@r@coombe@ @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Wed Jun 29 17:18:20 CEST 2022
To clarify, I don't ever start R (as Rterm) from a command line prompt
on Windows. As a result, I really don't bother to put the R installation
location into the PATH environment variable, since I don't want to have
to update it every time a new version is released. (For the same reason,
I don't want to have to manually set "inferior-ess-r-program" and have
to remember to update it with new releases.)
I have desktop icons for the RGui. I can see the version number and name
on those icons if I want to start R that way; those all work. I also
have no problem using RStudio, which continues to be successful in
automatically finding the newest versions. The only problem is with ESS
inside of emacs, and it started with version 4.2.0, which coincided with
dropping the creation of 32-bit R versions on Windows.
Further, ESS/R does *find *all versions of R on my system. I know this
because it creates separate startup commands (such as R-4.2.0-64bit).
That part that fails is the code in the file "ess-r-mode.el" that is
supposed to find the newest R from the list of all available versions.
On 6/29/2022 9:57 AM, Shreyas Ragavan wrote:
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> I wanted to add a suggestion here that when or if you add multiple R versions from non-standard paths to your PATH environment variable in Windows (to enable Emacs or any program to find the R executable) - it is important to make sure the desired version of R is the First path. Programs will stop looking for the executable once it is found, and if an earlier R version is found before the desired version - that is what would start up.
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>> Your (from description) Windows system appears confused about where to find
>> R, and doubly so as a 32/64 bit convention is dead, and there is only 64bit.
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>> On operating systems that use $PATH you can _always_ just point to a working
>> R by pointing RHOME/bin so that the right R is found. It has been years since
>> I worked on Windows but it got the R I wanted when I told ESS in no uncertain
>> terms which one I wanted. It seems to me you would be well advised to try the
>> same if you have confusing choice of multiple R versions to confuse ESS with.
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