If Emacs is not asking for starting directory, it is very likely your init file has this somewhere:
(setq ess-ask-for-ess-directory nil) On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Enrico Schumann <e...@enricoschumann.net> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Sep 2017, Christian writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I experienced a sudden change in the behavior of M-x R in not giving >> me the choice where to start R. May be that I botched my >> preferences. I am using Aquamacs 3.3 on MacOS 10.12.6 >> >> Christian > > I suppose you are using ESS? There is a variable called > 'ess-ask-for-ess-directory', which controls whether > M-x R prompts for a directory. Perhaps you have set > this to nil? > > I also Cc the ESS-help mailing list and suggest that > follow-up be sent there. > > > Kind regards > Enrico > > -- > Enrico Schumann > Lucerne, Switzerland > http://enricoschumann.net > > ______________________________________________ > ess-h...@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help -- Paul E. Johnson http://pj.freefaculty.org Director, Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis http://crmda.ku.edu To write to me directly, please address me at pauljohn at ku.edu. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.