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From: Martin Maechler
Sent: Friday, January 5, 2024 7:58 AM
To: Robert Lerche
Cc: Sparapani, Rodney ; Tomas Kalibera
; ess-help (ess-help@r-project.org)
Subject: Re: [ESS] Following up, success! [was RE: [R-win] Difficulty
installing R packages under Windows 11 / Cygwin]
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> Robert Lerche via ESS-help
> on Wed, 3 Jan 2024 22:58:00 + writes:
> Yes and thanks for responding. That is I think exactly what's needed and
I have taken a shot at implementing it. [I'm glad my previous attached patch
got filtered, I was a bit careless.] Here's a
(lm-with-file (expand-file-name "ess.el" ess-lisp-directory)
From: Sparapani, Rodney
Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2024 11:45 AM
To: Robert Lerche ; Dirk Eddelbuettel
; Tomas Kalibera
Cc: ess-help (ess-help@r-project.org)
Subject: Re: Following up, success! [was RE: [ESS] [R-win] D
, success! [was RE: [ESS] [R-win] Difficulty installing R
packages under Windows 11 / Cygwin]
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It turns out it was fairly easy to make ESS work
It turns out it was fairly easy to make ESS work in Cygwin Emacs with R built
for Windows. The issue was of course path names. I attach a patch that works
for me.
Let me explain that I am using a company-provided and managed laptop and I have
no choice but to run Windows. I am familiar with