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 > ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
