This looks like the same error discussed yesterday. The released ESS 12.xx doesn't know about R-3.x.x. The not-yet-released svn version of ESS 13.xx does know about R-3.x.x. On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Alun Pope wrote: > On 19/04/2013, at 11:17 PM, Rodney Sparapani wrote: > > > On 04/19/2013 02:51 AM, Alun Pope wrote: > >> In the minbuffer after M-x R I get a message as before with R 2.15.x > >> asking for a starting directory. > >> > >> If I have an existing directory in there shown as the default, and hit > RET > >> I get a refresh and the same > >> message and directory, but no visible action. If I put in a new > directory > >> name i get a [no match] > >> message in the minibuffer. > >> > >> It seems there is a*R* buffer created which reports: > >> > >> > >> ERROR: sub-architecture 'x86_64' is not installed > >> > >> Process R exited abnormally with code 1 at Fri Apr 19 17:05:51 2013 > > > > Hi Alun: > > > > This doesn't sound like an ESS issue. But, I'll admit, that I haven't > > ventured into 3.0.0 frontier yet. For the ESS version, run the command > > M-x ess-version If that doesn't work, then try F1 v ess-version > > I assume you are using Mountain Lion, but I'm not sure if that matters. > > -- > > Rodney Sparapani, PhD Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research > > Sr. Biostatistician http://www.mcw.edu/pcor > > 4 wheels good, 2 wheels better! Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) > > WWLD?: What Would Lombardi Do? Milwaukee, WI, USA > > Thanks for your help, Rodney. > > The problem seems to be related to not being able to find the right > version of R. The frameworks are all present, and the old versions 2.15 > and earlier have directories that correspond to them. And R 3.0.0 has a > directory there and is found if I run R from either the R.app or from a > bash shell. But ess-newest-R has the value nil. > > It seems (to me) that ESS is not finding the right version of R any more. > Is there somewhere I can specify which version of R to use? At the moment > I would just be pleased to be able to go back to R-2.15. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Oh and yes I am using ESS 5.13, > which is what is in the latest Aquamacs release. Thanks for the tip on > that. > > Alun > > Dr Alun Pope > > Head of Research > Rismark International > > For more on Equity Finance Mortgages*: > See www.efm.info > > > > > > Level 13 | 50 Margaret Street > Sydney | NSW 2000 | Australia > > alunpope@rismark.com.au > alunpope@gmail.com > > > > > > > Dr Alun Pope > Chair > Accreditation Committee > Statistical Society of Australia > > alunpope@gmail.com > > > > ______________________________________________ > ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]