R does not run in ESS

[Xinghua Lu]

Thanks.  I will leave ess-inf.el alone.  I believe that I have set the 
PATH correctly because it is listed by command "path" and start "Rterm" 
from any directory in NT2000 command prompt.  Tried global path for the 
system and my own PATH environment variables, neither worked within 
Emacs.  Seemingly the emacs on my machine does not search the %PATH%.  
Any light?

Richard M. Heiberger wrote:

>Do NOT touch the file "ess-inf.el"!  It is set as a read-only file when we sent it.
>
>Users are allowed to make changes only to ess-site.el, which is a read-write file.
>
>For the current task, you can edit the line in ess-site.el that is initialized to
>
>;;(setq-default inferior-R-program-name "Rterm")  ; msdos systems
>
>Change it to
>  (setq-default inferior-R-program-name "c:/Progra~1/R/rw1081/bin/Rterm.exe")  ; msdos systems
>by removing the comment symbols (the ;;) and putting in the path for your machine.
>
>The current release of R is 1.8.1, not the older releases listed in the previous messages
>in this thread.
>
>As Tony pointed out, it is even better to get the PATH defined in the right place so you
>don't have to make any changes to ess-site.el.
>
>
>Rich
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