Hi Bill,

I have also had no trouble.  Therefore I suspect something in your .emacs
file.

So I guess we have to start at the beginning.  Does it work for you if you
start with
emacs -Q
?

Rich


On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.psych@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> I use the same setup, except with Goulet's most recent Emacs 24.3 with
> ESS 12.09-2.  I have not had any trouble with it.  Although I should
> point out that it may be related to:
>
> > strsplit(Sys.getenv("PATH"), ";")
> [[1]]
>  [1] "c:\\usr\\Rtools\\bin"
>  [2] "c:\\usr\\Rtools\\gcc-4.6.3\\bin"
>  [3] "c:\\usr\\R\\R-devel\\bin\\x64"
> [snip]
>
> Probably not what you want to hear but could also try:
>
> (setq inferior-R-program-name "/path/to/R/R-3.0.0/bin/x64/Rterm.exe")
>
> in your .emacs
>
> Recently mine has been hanging if I do: `[[`(  like its trying to pull
> up the argument list but gets stuck, but I do not think that is unique
> to R 3.0.0, so think it is a separate issue.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Josh
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 10:14 PM,  <Bill.Venables@csiro.au> wrote:
> > I have just installed R 3.0.0 for Windows (Windows 7, 64-bit OS) .
> >
> > The Rgui works fine.
> >
> > But to my horror I find it does not work with Emacs/ESS.   I have burnt
> my bridges rather, so I am in a bit of a pickle.
> >
> > Curiously, if I start a shell within Emacs, I cannot start R going
> within the shell, but
> >
> > R CMD Sweave file.Rnw
> >
> > works fine!  Of course all the editing features with ESS are unaffected,
> also.
> >
> > Inside a shell, I get the following:
> >
> > 14:54 - BlockDesign$ R
> > Fatal error: you must specify '--save', '--no-save' or '--vanilla'
> >
> > this is a cygwin shell within emacs.  The same thing happens with a
> cygwin shell outside emacs.
> >
> > If I issue, for example R --save, then R starts, but in batch mode.
>  I.e. the first error that happens causes R to barf and die.
> >
> > Trying to start an R process gives a different error.  M-x R  complains
> that it can't find "Rterm", and dies.  With R-2.15.3 and previous, pressing
> tab after M-x R gave a menu including both 32-bit and 64-bit, for example.
> >
> > If I abandon the cygwin shell within Emacs and use a dos shell, then the
> same things happens, but curiously with a dos shell outside Emacs, R works
> as normal.
> >
> > For info, I am using Vincent Goulet's Emacs all-in-one and ESS 12.09,
> rev. 5167 2012-09-24, so it's not exactly an antiquated system.
> >
> > Help!
> >
> > Bill.
> >
> > Bill Venables
> > Post-Retirement Research Fellow
> > CSIRO/CMIS, Ecosciences Precinct,
> > Dutton Park, Qld. Australia, 4102
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Bill Venables
> > Post-Retirement Research Fellow
> > CSIRO/CMIS, Ecosciences Precinct,
> > Dutton Park, Qld. Australia, 4102
> >
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