R help - Sep 2011 - Emacs ESS finding all versions of R

Dear R-help,

Apologies if this isn't exactly the right place for this question.

I am trying to run R in emacs using ESS.  I have done this
successfully many times - it works right now on my home computer in
windows 7 and in ubuntu.

The problem is that when I start emacs the regular splash screen
doesn't show.  In the mini-buffer I get the message "Finding all
versions of R on your system".  And then emacs just freezes up.

I am running windows xp.

emacs is located at
C:\Program Files\emacs-23.3\bin\emacs

I have an ess-5.14 folder at
C:\Program Files\emacs-23.3\site-lisp\ess-5.14

R is located at
C:\Program Files\R\R-2.13.1\bin\R
or
C:\Program Files\R\R-2.13.1\bin\i386\Rterm
?

In my ~/.emacs file I have tried included only the following lines
(require 'ess-site)
and
(require 'ess-site)
(setq inferior-R-program-name "C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-2.13\\bin\\R")
as well as many variations on the R path, including \, /, and going to
Rterm instead.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Alex Olssen

Alex,

This query belongs on the ESS list
ess-help@r-project.org
Please place any followup questions there.

You seem to have accepted the default location of R, so ESS should just
work.
The only line you need in ~/.emacs
is
(require 'ess-site)
The other lines you mention cause interference and should not be there.

I assume you have 32-bit windows since you mentioned i386/ but did not
mention x64/
The i386/Rterm.exe and x64/Rterm.exe are the relevant executable files.
ESS will find them.

It is possible that you have other lines in your .emacs or in your
site-start.el files and they are causing
trouble.

Start emacs without any initialization files
   emacs -Q
And then manually load the ess-site.el file.

Please report back to the ESS mailing list

Rich


On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Alex Olssen <alex.olssen@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dear R-help,
>
> Apologies if this isn't exactly the right place for this question.
>
> I am trying to run R in emacs using ESS.  I have done this
> successfully many times - it works right now on my home computer in
> windows 7 and in ubuntu.
>
> The problem is that when I start emacs the regular splash screen
> doesn't show.  In the mini-buffer I get the message "Finding all
> versions of R on your system".  And then emacs just freezes up.
>
> I am running windows xp.
>
> emacs is located at
> C:\Program Files\emacs-23.3\bin\emacs
>
> I have an ess-5.14 folder at
> C:\Program Files\emacs-23.3\site-lisp\ess-5.14
>
> R is located at
> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.13.1\bin\R
> or
> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.13.1\bin\i386\Rterm
> ?
>
> In my ~/.emacs file I have tried included only the following lines
> (require 'ess-site)
> and
> (require 'ess-site)
> (setq inferior-R-program-name "C:\\Program
Files\\R\\R-2.13\\bin\\R")
> as well as many variations on the R path, including \, /, and going to
> Rterm instead.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex Olssen
>
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