Does ess (>= 5.3.10) now require R ?

[Stephen Eglen]

Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> To debug this on my ubuntu box, do I just need to remove R and then try
> to 'install ess package'?  If so, how do I 'install ess package'?  Sorry
> for the obvious question, but I assume its not just a case of 
> 'apt-get install ess' which is about as far as my regular debian
> knowledge goes!

and perhaps, even better, given the SVN copy of ESS in my home
directory, how can I get the packaging system to try to package that?
My current thinking on this bug is that the code may be fault-tolerant
but either the code is getting run in a funny order, or somehow
ess-r-versions-created isn't being defined as a variable when
ess-newest-R is run.  

Stephen