Re: ESS confused about newest R

"Kevin R. Coombes via ESS-help" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.ess.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I think that's a different issue (which arose in part because I don't 
install R in the "standard" place on Windows, dating back to the days 
when R/ESS couldn't handle the space in the "Program Files' directory path).

On 6/28/2022 1:20 PM, Enrico Schumann wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2022, Kevin R. Coombes via ESS-help writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been using emacs with ESS for years. By now,I
>> probably have old versions of each installed - so I
>> know one answer to my question is probably "install the
>> newest versions". But I don't really want to do that
>> right now. (Especially since the web support page for
>> ESS still claims that my ancient version is the most
>> recent official release.)
>>
>> Ever since I installed R 4.2.0 (and now having just
>> installed R-4.2.1), ESS insists that R-4.1.0 is the
>> newest version on my system. It creates separate
>> commands to run R-4.2.0-64bit and R-4.2.1-64bit, but is
>> unable to tell that these are newer than R-4.1.0, so
>> the default "M-x R" is the same as "M-x R-newest",
>> which starts the wrong version
>>
>> The only thing that I see that has changed is that all
>> earlier versions of R also include 32-bit versions. I
>> don't see why that should matter, since I have *not*
>> changed the default value (t) of
>> ess-prefer-higher-bit. Obviously, I am missing
>> something, since I can't figure out how to convince ESS
>> to take the R-4.2 versions into consideration when
>> determining the newest version.
>>
>> Has anyone eslse seen this? Does anyone know if there
>> are minor edits I can make to ess-r-mode-el that will
>> persuade my old versions of emacs and ESS to just do
>> the right thing?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>    Kevin
>>
> I have only seen something like this on Windows, where
> I explicitly set `inferior-ess-r-program` (which I
> think was called `inferior-R-program-name` in older
> versions of ESS) to the right executable.
>
>

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