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 <kevin.r.coombes@gmail.com>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
>
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