On Sep 1, 2005, at 2:11 AM, Stephen Eglen wrote:

> Martin, Kaspar,
>
> I just took a deeper look into R-devel, and found the problem.
>
> If I have a program called "R-devel" on my path, I need to put the
> following in .emacs BEFORE ess-site is loaded:
>
> (setq ess-r-versions '("R-1" "R-2" "R-devel"))
> (require 'ess-site)
>
>
> since the R versions are created only on startup.  Perhaps I need to
> document that better in the string.  This means also that if people
> customize it, either:
>
> 1. their customize should come before ess-site is loaded (hard)
>
> 2. the customize code dynamically recreates R-versions (neater).
>
>
> But if we change the default of ess-r-versions to the above, we should
> be Okay for most people, especially you Martin, so you should be able
> to remove your 6 year old function!
>
> Please check and get back to me!

Thanks for the fix Stephen and Martin.

As Stephen said, I just put
  (setq ess-r-versions (quote ("R-1" "R-2" "R-devel")))
  (require 'ess-site)
in my .emacs, and it worked out the box.

That was uner Mac OS X, Carbon Emacs (build on Emacs version  
22.0.50.1) and using Ess 5.2.9

Kasper

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