Thanks. I thought that was probably the solution, but I generally dislike running "development" versions rather than "official releases". Is there some expected release date when ESS-13.03 will be promoted from "development" to "latest released" (given that we are more than halfway through 13.04....)? Kevin On 4/20/2013 3:04 PM, Richard M. Heiberger wrote: > Please update ESS. The older ESS 12.x.x didn't know about R-3.x.x > The ESS 13.03 that I have does know about R-3.x.x > > Rich > > > On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Kevin Coombes > > wrote: > > Hi, > > I just installed R 3.0.0 on a laptop running Windows 7, 64-bit > professional, and Emacs 24.3. I am using ESS 12.09-2 (since that > is the latest version on the download page, even though the HTML > documentation on the download page reports itself as 13.03). > > R is *not* installed in the default location (C:\Program > Files\R\R-3.0.0) because that makes it more difficult to install > new packages. Instead, it is installed in C:\R\R-3.0.0. > > My problem: ESS cannot find the default Rterm.exe. It gives an > error message: > "Searching for program: permission denied, Rterm" > > My .emacs file includes the two lines: > (setq ess-directory-containing-R "C:") > (require 'ess-site) > > On the same machine, with the same .emacs file, ESS is able to > locate R-2.15.2, which is installed at C:\R\R-2.15.2. > > I know how to hack a solution to this problem by editing the > ess-site.el file to explicitly define > (setq-default inferior-R-program-name > "C:\\R\\R-3.0.0\\bin\\x64\\Rterm.exe") > and will use that as a short-term solution. But this is obviously > painful to remember to fix whenever I install a new version of R. > > What is the correct long-term solution? > > Thanks, > Kevin > > ______________________________________________ > ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]