[ESS-bugs] [ESS] trouble starting ESS

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "MR" == Main, Regan <rmain at rand.org>
>>>>>     on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:34:40 -0400 writes:

    MR> Hi Rodney,
    MR> I was having trouble getting ESS to run about a month ago and finally
    MR> figured out what the problem was last week.  As it turns out the
    MR> .../emacs/site-lisp/ess-5.11/etc/ess-sas-sh-command file was not
    MR> executable.  An admin who installed ESS forced executable permissions
    MR> for all users and that solved the problem.  

    MR> Thanks for helping troubleshoot this one.

Thank you, Regan, for the feedback.
I've now made  etc/ess-sas-sh-command  executable (for the next
version of ESS).

Martin


    MR> -----Original Message-----
    MR> From: Rodney Sparapani [mailto:rsparapa at mcw.edu] 
    MR> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 5:10 PM
    MR> To: Main, Regan
    MR> Cc: ess-bugs at stat.math.ethz.ch
    MR> Subject: Re: [ESS] trouble starting ESS

    MR> On 07/30/10 04:03 PM, Main, Regan wrote:
    >> [regs>]pwd
    >> /shelley/a/rmain/emacs/ess-5.3.7/etc
    >> [regs>]ess-sas-sh-command
    >> + stdout=
    >> + stderr=
    >> + shift 2
    >> + set +x
    >> sas</dev/tty 1>  2>
    >> ./ess-sas-sh-command: line 32: $stdout: ambiguous redirect
    >> 
    MR> Actually, I think, that's expected.  All I was trying to ascertain was 
    MR> whether
    MR> it was executable, and, apparently, it is.  So, your problem is that
    MR> sas is not found in your PATH when you are using emacs.  Is it in your
    MR> PATH at the command line?

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