[ESS] Getting SAS to start

[A.J. Rossini]

I believe ess-sas-command.sh is what was being referred to, in etc/

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On 10/5/05, Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
> >>>>> "Cameron" == Cameron Hooper <chooper at umich.edu>
> >>>>>     on Tue, 4 Oct 2005 11:05:24 -0400 writes:
>
>    Cameron> Hi
>
>    Cameron> After a recent SAS update I needed to change
>    Cameron> ess-sas-command to point to the actual executable
>
> there's no 'ess-sas-command' in the ESS lisp files. What do you
> really mean?
>
>    Cameron> rather than the script now used to start SAS (as
>    Cameron> per 10.7 in the manual).
>
> Did you really change it in the ESS *sources* ???
> You shouldn't touch those, they are ours, the ESS developers ;-) :-)
>
> More seriously: You really shouldn't edit the ESS sources,
> but rather put changes into your ~/.emacs  {or a byte-compiled
> file you load from your ~/.emacs}, see below.
>
>    Cameron> Now it works fine, but I
>    Cameron> was wondering if I can make the change in .emacs
>    Cameron> rather than ess-sas-command.
>
>    Cameron> I'm worried that upgrades will remove the
>    Cameron> customization
>
> exactly. and that's why should not tamper with the sources but
> *customize* things properly, see below.
>
>    Cameron> and I will spend a few hours next
>    Cameron> time trying to solve this problem again. (Yes, I
>    Cameron> have a bad memory!)
>
> What I mean is: Use the menu to Customize ESS, and save the
> customizations; this will add the appropriate commands to your ~/.emacs
>
> Alternatively, set variables before or after
>
>     (require 'ess-site)  ;; or (load ..) or whatever you have
>
> by          (setq ........)
> or even     (defun ...........)
> But the latter shouldn't be necessary; if it is, it's a ``design
> bug'' in ESS, and we'd like to hear about it.
>
> Martin
>
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