[ESS] Mac OSX 10.10.1 Yosemite can't find R

[Paul Johnson]

An interesting turn happened today.

Student removed R and re-installed R, and path problem is now cured. At
least on that one machine. Yosemite was installed after R, perhaps that was
part of problem.

I don't mean to say I hate Macintoshes, their hardware is pretty good. The
software, well, that's different.

pj

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Sparapani, Rodney <rsparapa using mcw.edu>
wrote:

> >
> > Try
> >
> > M-x shell
> >
> > and then start R within the shell by typing "R".
> >
> > If that works, its then an ESS problem.
> >
> > if that fails (which is my hope!) maybe Emacs has not been initialised
> > with the right environment variables.
> >
> > lets follow up off list...
>
> Hi Stephen:
>
> Unfortunately, as I understand it, the nefarious nature of this bug
> is that it does not rear it's ugly head in the terminal.  For example,
> see the R bug report that Paul referenced...
> https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16042
>
> That is the first hit I got when I googled it.  The second is kind
> of interesting...
> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6624476
>
> But it has no hint of an actual fix.  From what I have read in other
> communities (latex, Rstudio, etc.) it seems like workarounds exist,
> but I personally am not upgrading to Yosemite because of this very
> bug.  Looking forward to a fix.  But, as a Mavericks user, I see no
> reason to upgrade anyways.
>
> Rodney
>
>


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