There is probably something in your .emacs or site-start.el that is
interfering.

Please start
emacs -Q
then load ess-site
then set ess-directory-containing-R
then start R

Rich

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Oliver Jones <ojones@wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de
> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I just found out how to tell ess where to look for R under Windows XP.
> Maybe other have similar problems and this helps...
> Maybe I found a bug?
>
> Situation:
> Windows XP; Emacs 24.2.1; ESS version 12.09-2; R-2.10.1 properly installed
> and two more recent versions of R in my folder "C:/Dokumente und
> Einstellungen/username/Eigene Dateien"
>
> M-x customize-variable RET ess-directory-containing-R RET
>
> and setting it to "C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/username/Eigene Dateien"
> doesn't help, i.e. ess always starts the old (but properly installed)
> R-2.10.1.
>
> One has to change the inferior-R-program-name, i.e.
>
> M-x customize-variable RET inferior-R-program-name RET
>
> and setting that one to "C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/username/Eigene
> Dateien".
>
> So for what do we need/use the variable ess-directory-containing-R?
>
> Best
> Oliver
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