> For me, that now starts R 4.2.0 on WIndows.
>
> However, given the fragility of regexps, does anyone (Martin?) know why
> the ucrt now appears in versions on Windows, and whether that was
> deliberate? ESS might well be the only program that machine reads that
> date, but still we should try to
The change in date format makes sense. The short term workaround is to set the
specific R you want.
In general, that ESS code on Windows was designed to find R in any of a number
of standard places. The list of what
those standard places are is also a variable you can set. The details have
