Thanks for the suggestions. The problem turned out to be an R option I was
setting incorrectly in my .Rprofile. The help page for options gave the
example options=utils:recover, which I took quite literally and put in the
profile. This redefined options, which hosed what emacs was doing.  Mark
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On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:19 PM, RICHARD M. HEIBERGER <rmh@temple.edu>wrote:

> >> options(STERM='iESS', editor='emacsclient')
> > Error in options(STERM = "iESS", editor = "emacsclient") :
> >   unused argument(s) (STERM = "iESS", editor = "emacsclient")
>
> The "unused arguments" looks to me like you have a naming conflict.
> try
>   conflicts(detail=TRUE)
> I am guessing that your session starts with a saved .RData that has
> a locally named function "options".
>
> If you need the .RData file, then remove or rename the offending
> function and resave the .RData.
> An even better plan is to place those functions into your own package
> and then load it.
>
> Rich
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