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Today's Topics:

   1. ESS and RAqua (Thomas Lumley)
   2. Re: ESS and RAqua (A.J. Rossini)
   3. Re: ESS and RAqua (Thomas Lumley)
   4. Re: ESS and RAqua (A.J. Rossini)

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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:12:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Thomas Lumley <tlumley <at> u.washington.edu>
Subject: ESS and RAqua
To: ess-help <at> stat.math.ethz.ch
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When R 1.8.0 comes out in a few weeks there will be a GUI version for Mac
OS distributed in binary form.  Presumably some people (like me) will want
to use ESS rather than the GUI at least some of the time.

1) FYI.  This can be done with
 (setq inferior-R-program-name
    "/Applications/StartR.app/RAqua.app/Contents/bin/R")
The path can safely be hard-coded because the GUI won't work unless it's
in that location.

2) That is ugly because the entire path is displayed when prompting
for the starting directory.  Is there a way to set the path to R
separately from the name?

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley <at> u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle

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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:26:35 -0700
From: rossini <at> blindglobe.net (A.J. Rossini)
Subject: Re: ESS and RAqua
To: Thomas Lumley <tlumley <at> u.washington.edu>
Cc: ess-help <at> stat.math.ethz.ch
Message-ID: <85u17i6n9w.fsf <at> blindglobe.net>
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Thomas Lumley <tlumley <at> u.washington.edu> writes:

> When R 1.8.0 comes out in a few weeks there will be a GUI version for Mac
> OS distributed in binary form.  Presumably some people (like me) will want
> to use ESS rather than the GUI at least some of the time.
>
> 1) FYI.  This can be done with
>  (setq inferior-R-program-name
>     "/Applications/StartR.app/RAqua.app/Contents/bin/R")
> The path can safely be hard-coded because the GUI won't work unless it's
> in that location.

Thanks, I'll add that to ess-site -- with this be a DMG installer, or
...?

> 2) That is ugly because the entire path is displayed when prompting
> for the starting directory.  Is there a way to set the path to R
> separately from the name?

Do you mean, have a default for the starting directory different from
the current working directory of either emacs or R ? 

That should be possible.

best,
-tony

-- 
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:42:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Thomas Lumley <tlumley <at> u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: ESS and RAqua
To: rossini <at> u.washington.edu
Cc: ess-help <at> stat.math.ethz.ch
Message-ID:
	<Pine.A41.4.44.0309121437210.153410-100000 <at> homer06.u.washington.edu>
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On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, A.J. Rossini wrote:

> Thomas Lumley <tlumley <at> u.washington.edu> writes:
>
> > When R 1.8.0 comes out in a few weeks there will be a GUI version for Mac
> > OS distributed in binary form.  Presumably some people (like me) will want
> > to use ESS rather than the GUI at least some of the time.
> >
> > 1) FYI.  This can be done with
> >  (setq inferior-R-program-name
> >     "/Applications/StartR.app/RAqua.app/Contents/bin/R")
> > The path can safely be hard-coded because the GUI won't work unless it's
> > in that location.
>
> Thanks, I'll add that to ess-site -- with this be a DMG installer, or
> ...?

An Apple Package installer.

> > 2) That is ugly because the entire path is displayed when prompting
> > for the starting directory.  Is there a way to set the path to R
> > separately from the name?
>
> Do you mean, have a default for the starting directory different from
> the current working directory of either emacs or R ?

No, I mean have a separate setting for the path to R from the name of the
executable.  It seems that inferior-R-program-name is intended for the
case where the R executable is called something other than R, and there
isn't a convenient way to say that it is called R but lives in
/Applications/StartR.app/RAqua.app/Contents/bin.

Traditionally this doesn't arise because R would be on the the shell's
PATH, but that is less reliably true once you have GUI operating systems.

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley <at> u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle

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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:35:42 -0700
From: rossini <at> blindglobe.net (A.J. Rossini)
Subject: Re: ESS and RAqua
To: Thomas Lumley <tlumley <at> u.washington.edu>
Cc: ess-help <at> stat.math.ethz.ch
Message-ID: <85llst4ja9.fsf <at> blindglobe.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

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Biomedical and Health Informatics   University of Washington
Biostatistics, SCHARP/HVTN          Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
UW (Tu/Th/F): 206-616-7630 FAX=206-543-3461 | Voicemail is unreliable
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