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 -- Enrico Schumann Lucerne, Switzerland https://enricoschumann.net ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help