It worked all of yesterday and most of today, and now it stopped working
again.


Again, it looks like it gets stuck on the step where it's looking for R:

<< However, I see that the status bar says: "Finding all versions of R on
your system..."    I guess this is the step that takes forever. >>


Looking at C:\Program Files\R, I see that R-2.9.0 is there again!
Deleting it, I can start ESS via the *scratch* buffer, and directly with the
.emacs file.

I've deleted this before, but it looks like some process in my machine is
creating that directory. This could explain some of the apparent randomness.

(1) What process could this be? (I had RTools installed until just now)
(2) Can I make this directory be read-only? There are no files inside it,
just the folder 'R-2.9.1' (R-2.9.1 could still be full-access)  UPDATE: it
already is read-only!
(3) Could we make ESS handle this ambiguity gracefully?

In any case, for now everything works again, and it looks like I know what
to do when it breaks.

Thanks very much for your help!

Gustavo



On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh@temple.edu>wrote:

> sorry about that typo,  yes
> emacs -q --no-site-file
> is correct.
>
>
>
> Next trick.  Don't shut your machine down.
> Always use hibernate
>
>

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