[ESS] Problem starting specific R version

[Alex Branham]

Sorry for the double-email, but also please include the value of ess-rterm-version-paths (C-h v ess-rterm-version-paths).

Alex

On Sun 01 Jul 2018 at 06:51, Henric Winell via ESS-help <ess-help using r-project.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to report the following, which I suspect is a bug:
>
> On my Windows 10 system using Emacs 25.3.1 I've got several R versions.
> For example, I've got R-3.5.0 and R-devel installed under C:\Program
> Files\R\R-3.5 and C:\Program Files\R\R-3.6, respectively.
>
> Up until quite recently, I could start a specific version, e.g., the
> 64-bit version of R-3.5.0 by issuing 'M-x R-3.5-64bit'.  This is now
> broken and results in "Searching for program: No such file or directory,
> R-3.5-64bit".
>
> I've got a couple of "older" ESS versions lying around and found that it
>   still works is ess-20180514.721, but is broken in ess-20180522.213
> (and still broken in ess-20180701.100).  I checked the commit history
> and suspect that the 'Simplify how R-X.Y.Z style functions are created'
> change that got merged in on May 21 may have something to do with this
> problem.
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Henric Winell
>
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