Starting R in a non PATH directory

[Douglas Bates]

Gerald.Jean at spgdag.ca writes:

> how one tells ESS where the R excutable resides when the path is not, and
> should not be included, in the environment variable PATH?
> 
> Emacs 20.7.1, ESS-5.21.1 on Solaris 5.8

Explicitly set the lisp variable inferior-R-program-name, as in

(setq inferior-R-program-name "/my/full/path/to/R/executable")