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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Kyle Andrews <kyle.c.andrews@gmail.com>
Cc: 42259-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42259: emacs-ess 18.10.2 sets R_HOME to a ridiculous value by default
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:29:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1qmpoif.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zayk5n1.fsf@gmail.com> (Kyle Andrews's message of "Wed, 08 Jul 2020 00:11:30 -0400")

Hello,

Kyle Andrews <kyle.c.andrews@gmail.com> writes:

> I have been noticing many warnings coming from R in several contexts
> saying:
>
>   WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
>
> See for example the output of running:
>
>   $ R --version
>
> This warning appears to be coming from line 69 of ess-r-gui.el where an
> unset environment variable R_HOME is being set in elisp code which is
> pointing to some ancient version of R located inside a Microsoft Windows
> file system:
>
> R_HOME="c:/progra~1/R/R-2.6.1"
>
> This whole ess-r-gui.el file seems to be dedicated to interfacing with
> software in Microsoft Windows which doesn't seem at all relevant in the
> Guix world. This whole file can probably be safely deleted along with
> line 164 in the ESS/lisp/Makefile which I think triggers byte
> compilation.

This should be fixed in commit 0939462e3f81bc98b38bdb7610e6a80ca1cbaa1b.

Closing.  Thanks for the report!

Maxim




      reply	other threads:[~2020-09-28  3:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-08  4:11 bug#42259: emacs-ess 18.10.2 sets R_HOME to a ridiculous value by default Kyle Andrews
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