[ESS-bugs] ess-site does not find Rterm.exe (R.12.1)

[Georgi Boshnakov]

Hi,

I am working under Windows XP,  R-12.1, Emacs23.2, ESS 5.12.

ESS seems (for me) unable to find Rterm.exe of R.12.1 and declares R.11.1pat to be the newest. 

My guess is that this is due to changed "bin" directory in R.12., where (on my platform) most of the exe files, including Rterm.exe, are in bin/i386, not directly in bin.

This is my R directory with R.12.1 and R.11.1pat installed.

  c:/Program Files/R:
  drwxrwxrwx  1 Georgi         None   0 06-25 14:32 R-2.11.1pat
  drwxrwxrwx  1 Georgi         None   0 12-22 22:11 R-2.12.1


The following evaluation is in the Emacs *Scratch* buffer:

(ess-find-rterm (concat (getenv "ProgramFiles") "/R/"))
==>
     (nil "C:/Program Files/R/R-2.11.1pat/bin/Rterm.exe")


In the code of  ess-find-rterm there is an explicit reference to "bin/Rterm.exe", which seems to be the reason for not finding the version 12's Rterm.exe.


Thanks for the great software,
Georgi




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