[ESS] ESS does not find R

[Stephen Bond]

surprise: 
 (setq inferior-ess-r-program "/home/stephen/Downloads/R-4.3.3/bin/R")

did it. it can start the iESS and I can send code to it :-)

On Sat, 2025-06-07 at 10:24 +0200, Enrico Schumann wrote:
> 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
>