Re: using emacs under win2000

[Kevin Rodgers]

Gary Weselle wrote:
> "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> wrote in message
> news:mailman.8.1143053186.14015.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
>
> > > From: "Gary Weselle" <weselle_g@hotmain.com>
> > > Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:23:57 -0800
> > >
> > > My emacs looks like this:
> > >
> > > (load "C:/emacs-21.3/ess-5.2.12/lisp/ess-site")
> > >
> > > (setq R "C:/Progra~1/R/R-2.2.1/bin/Rterm.exe")
> >
> > The last one is the culprit, I think: you need to set the
> > _environment_ variable R, not an Emacs variable R.  Try this instead:
> >
> > (setenv "R"  "C:/Progra~1/R/R-2.2.1/bin/Rterm.exe")
>
>
> that did not do it, the line in question is taken from
> http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#Microsoft-Windows-installation

The name of the variable set in step 5 is inferior-R-program-name, not R.

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Kevin Rodgers