Re: [ESS] Following up, success! [was RE: [R-win] Difficulty installing R packages under Windows 11 / Cygwin]

2024-01-07 Thread Robert Lerche via ESS-help
-Original Message- 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] [EXTER

Re: [ESS] Following up, success! [was RE: [R-win] Difficulty installing R packages under Windows 11 / Cygwin]

2024-01-05 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
> 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

Re: [ESS] Following up, success! [was RE: [R-win] Difficulty installing R packages under Windows 11 / Cygwin]

2024-01-03 Thread Robert Lerche via ESS-help
(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

Re: [ESS] Following up, success! [was RE: [R-win] Difficulty installing R packages under Windows 11 / Cygwin]

2024-01-03 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
, success! [was RE: [ESS] [R-win] Difficulty installing R packages under Windows 11 / Cygwin] ATTENTION: This email originated from a sender outside of MCW. Use caution when clicking on links or opening attachments. It turns out it was fairly easy to make ESS work

[ESS] Following up, success! [was RE: [R-win] Difficulty installing R packages under Windows 11 / Cygwin]

2024-01-02 Thread Robert Lerche via ESS-help
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