[ESS] starting dir

[Stephen Eglen]

Vincent Goulet writes:
 > Le 07-08-01 à 11:20, Stephen Bond a écrit :
 > 
 > > Vincent,
 > >
 > > if I change that variable to nil then it just dumps me into the  
 > > default
 > > dir. what I wanted is to specify a default work dir which is not  
 > > the emacs
 > > dir.
 > 
 > Well, if the variable is 't', you should be prompted for a working  
 > directory (presuming you work with some flavor of S). The default  
 > that will prposed to you is what Emacs consider to be its current  
 > working directory, much like when you find a file.
 > 
 > For example, if you have a file ~/work/toto.R opened and you do 'M-x  
 > R RET', Emacs/ESS should prompt you for a working directory for the R  
 > session, proposing as default ~/work/.

See also ess-directory:

(setq ess-directory "/tmp")
(setq ess-ask-for-ess-directory t)

M-x R
Stephen