OS sees R but Emacs - ESS doesn't

Hi Ross,

I would appreciate help with this problem between Enacs-ESS and R. It's a little off topic.

I am ?newbie to Mac OSX and I appear to have lost the connection between ESS and R. ?ESS cannot find R. The OS knows where R is ?but Emacs-ESS doesn't. ?I did have it working initially but must have altered something to ? break it. ?I am using Vincent Goulet 's build of Emacs/ESS/Auctex.

Can you clarify a bit about what you mean when you say "emacs can't
find R" -- how does this happen? When does this happen.

Are yo saying that starting R doesn't work from within emacs, eg: `M-x
R` doesn't work for you?

From what you are saying, it sounds like a PATH problem ... are you

using a "normal" os-x install of R? If you open a terminal and type
`which R` is it in /usr/bin?

Now from inside emacs, is that location that R is in (here /usr/bin)
found in the PATH that emacs sees? If you do:

M-: (getenv "PATH")

Do you use the appropriate directory where R is in listed in the PATH
that emacs just returned in your minibuffer?

-steve

Steve Lianoglou
Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology
?| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
?| Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact