Re: ESS confused about newest R
"Kevin R. Coombes via ESS-help" <[email protected]>
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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. > > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help