The system control panel says:

Microsoft Windows XP
Professional
Version 2002
Service Pack 3

FYI, this old thread from r-devel@ may be relevant:
http://www.mail-archive.com/r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch/msg03482.html.  I
experimented with using R.exe instead of Rterm.exe, and using the --ess
option to Rterm, none of which helped.

Thanks,

-J


On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa@mcw.edu> wrote:

> On 05/ 5/10 03:48 PM, John Rauser wrote:
>
>> At the suggestion of Rodney Sparapani, I'm reporting this as a bug.  My
>> emacs isn't configured correctly to send mail, but the buffer resulting
>> from
>> ess-sbumit-bug-report is pasted below.
>>
>> I'm running ess-5.8 in GNU emacs 23.1.1 in a cygwin environment.  I have
>> ess
>> configured to use the windows R 2.10.1 binary like so:
>>
>> (setq inferior-R-program-name "/cygdrive/c/Program
>> Files/R/R-2.10.1/bin/Rterm.exe")
>>
>> My trouble is that when I do something dumb that makes R go off in the
>> weeds
>> for a while and I type C-c C-c to interrupt R, instead of interrupting the
>> current R command and returning me to a prompt, it kills the whole R
>> process, so I have to start a new one with M-x R, and any work I'd done
>> since my last save is lost.
>>
>> I have not yet tried with xemacs.  If that would be helpful beyond the
>> data
>> pasted below, I can see about installing and configuring it.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> -J
>>
>>
> Hi John:
>
> For some reason, the automated bug report did not list your OS.
> So, just to be sure, could you tell us what it is?  I'm not sure
> it matters.  I haven't used Emacs with Cygwin, but I have used
> XEmacs and there are some issues.  I'm not knocking Cygwin either,
> since I actually like it.  But, it is another possible point of
> failure.
>
> --
> Rodney Sparapani       Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research
> Sr. Biostatistician               http://www.mcw.edu/pcor
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