Re: [ESS] ESS M-x R failing in a Windows installation

2021-03-15 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
> Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help > on Wed, 10 Mar 2021 15:40:05 + writes: > Hi Jeremie: As you say, Windows installs do depend on the > user’s preferences. However, in ancient ESS (circa 2004), > we coded around this by going to the Windows registry. > However, I

Re: [ESS] ESS M-x R failing in a Windows installation

2021-03-10 Thread Marc Schwartz via ESS-help
[Re-sending, as my prior reply seems to have been problematic] Hi, While not a Windows user, I am on macOS, I might point out the R Windows FAQ: https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html which has a section on installation and customization. The relevant reference for the

Re: [ESS] ESS M-x R failing in a Windows installation

2021-03-10 Thread Jeremie Juste via ESS-help
Hello, I suspect there is a bug regarding the variable ess-rterm-version-paths It is now available in ess-custom.el but is nil by default. This should not be the case. It should have the value (setq ess-rterm-version-paths (ess-flatten-list (delete-dups (if (not

Re: [ESS] ESS M-x R failing in a Windows installation

2021-03-10 Thread Marc Schwartz via ESS-help
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Re: [ESS] ESS M-x R failing in a Windows installation

2021-03-10 Thread Steve Gutreuter via ESS-help
Hi Rodney, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\R-core\R\4.0.3\InstallPath and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\R-core\R\4.0.3\InstallPath both exist in my Windows 10 installation. Best, Steve On 3/10/21 1:28 PM, Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help wrote: Hi Gang: Just to follow-up on my own

Re: [ESS] ESS M-x R failing in a Windows installation

2021-03-10 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Gang: Just to follow-up on my own post. I see that the Windows Registry was discussed here in June of 2012 and March of 2013 (not 2004 which was my initial guess). But, whether that even exists in modern Windows, IDK! Here are the most relevant snippets… On 06/15/2012 12:06 PM, Rodney

Re: [ESS] ESS M-x R failing in a Windows installation

2021-03-10 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Jeremie: As you say, Windows installs do depend on the user’s preferences. However, in ancient ESS (circa 2004), we coded around this by going to the Windows registry. However, I have rarely used Windows since so I can’t say how that approach might be used today (or if it is, how it might be

Re: [ESS] ESS M-x R failing in a Windows installation

2021-03-10 Thread Jeremie Juste via ESS-help
me a way round this is to start R in a shell (in > emacs) and then ess-remote. I’ve moved on to using direnv and lorri but > that’s not an option for windows. > > Dominic Steinitz > domi...@steinitz.org > http://idontgetoutmuch.org > Twi

Re: [ESS] ESS M-x R failing in a Windows installation

2021-03-10 Thread Dominic Steinitz via ESS-help
: ESS M-x R failing in a Windows installation (Jeremie Juste) > > -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2021 22:37:44 +0100 > From: Jeremie Juste > To: Steve Gutreuter via ESS-help > Subject: Re: [ESS]

Re: [ESS] ESS M-x R failing in a Windows installation

2021-03-05 Thread Jeremie Juste via ESS-help
Hello Steve, Yest this is a known problem on windows. A temporary solution might be to use the command M-x ess-r-newest. For my part I have rebinded the above command to a key C-'. It is not the best solution but it works for me. If I come up with a better fix I'll update. HTH, Jeremie On