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-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
> 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 summa
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 summary of what I've done:
ess-custom.el: extract prefix using cygpath, set to nil if error (i.e.
Hi Robert:
Looking this over. The issue appears to be that you need a prefix.
It has been a long time since I used Cygwin. But I assume the
prefix is something like �c:� or �/cygwin/c�. In other words,
the root is NOT �/�; rather something like $PREFIX/ Is that the issue?
I�m trying to think o
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 a
