[ESS] ESS does not find R

[Enrico Schumann]

On Fri, 06 Jun 2025, Stephen Bond via ESS-help writes:

> Hello,
>
> I have built an older version of R without running `make install` as I
> am not sure if it is satisfactory and cleaning up is not easy for me.
> I have 
> ```
> ~$ which R
> /home/stephen/Downloads/R-4.3.3/bin/R
> ```
> and typing `R` in a terminal works fine. ESS cannot find it. I tried
> all of these:
>
> ```
> (setq ess-directory-containing-R "/home/stepheen/Downloads") 
> (setq ess-directory-containing-R "/home/stepheen/Downloads/R-4.3.3") 
> (setq ess-directory-containing-R "/home/stepheen/Downloads/R-
> 4.3.3/bin") 
> ```

'stepheen' is a typo?

> and nothing works. I set the inferior-ess-r-program to "R" (default was
> nil) and still nothing. very very strange.

Could you try
   (setq inferior-ess-r-program "/home/stephen/Downloads/R-4.3.3/bin/R")
?


> Thanks everybody.
> Stephen

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