Does ess (>= 5.3.10) now require R ?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

ESS/Debianers,

We got a bug report about ess failing to configure on Debian which I couldn't
understand at all; see http://bugs.debian.org/507510

Now someone dug a bit more and it appears that this is due to the test in 
ess-find-newest-R from essd-r.el --- but I am not enough of an elisper to see
if that is or is not fault-tolerant to R being present.

Now, I can easily make Debian's ess depend on Debian's R -- should I ?

Many thanks,  Dirk

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