[ESS-bugs] ESS 13.09-1 with old R versions fails pretty badly

[Vitalie Spinu]

 >>> Martin Maechler on Tue, 29 Oct 2013 11:04:51 +0100 wrote:

 >>>>>> Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
 >>>>>> on Tue, 29 Oct 2013 08:53:12 +0100 writes:

[...]

 > One very simple and pretty robust workaround we should do:
 > If the  ESSR  cannot be added validly to the search path, we can
 > at least do the following

 >  for(f in list.files("<......>/ess/etc/ESSR/R", 
 > 		     pattern ="\\.R$", full.names=TRUE)) source(f)

It need not even source all files, only one of them (basic.R) with
essential functionality that we keep compatible across all versions of
R.

So if the installation fails for whatever reason, we source the file and
throw a big warning.


  Vitalie