[ESS] "Sorry, no version of R could be found on your system", for new version of R 2.12 --SOLVED

[Evan Misshula]

Hi Rich and Spencer,

Thank you both so much for your help.  Rich's line saved the day.  I can't wait for the day when I have the skills to contribute to this project!!

The both of you are making the world a better place.

Best,

Evan Misshula
CUNY John Jay

PS I am TA-ing the doctoral stats course (and will be again next year) at CUNY John Jay's PhD program in Criminal Justice and I have been making a strong case to dump SPSS for R (and ESS).
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From: RICHARD M. HEIBERGER [rmh at temple.edu]
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 12:30 PM
To: spencerg
Cc: Evan Misshula; ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [ESS] "Sorry, no version of R could be found on your system", for new version of R 2.12

The correct line in your .emacs on a 64-bit machine to make M-x R work is

;; for 32-bit R
(setq-default inferior-R-program-name "C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-2.12.1\\bin\\i386\\Rterm.exe")

;; for 64-bit R
(setq-default inferior-R-program-name "C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-2.12.1\\bin\\x64\\Rterm.exe")

On a 32-bit machine, the correct line is
(setq-default inferior-R-program-name "C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-2.12.1\\bin\\i386\\Rterm.exe")

There is no need to change anything inside ESS itself.

I anticipate having this and related changes in an ESS distribution early in January.

Rich