bug#42259: closed (emacs-ess 18.10.2 sets R_HOME to a ridiculous value by default)

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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #42259,
regarding emacs-ess 18.10.2 sets R_HOME to a ridiculous value by default
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> emacs-ess 18.10.2 sets R_HOME to a ridiculous value by default
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> Wed, 08 Jul 2020 00:11:30 -0400
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> mu4e 1.4.10; emacs 26.3
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> I have been noticing many warnings coming from R in several contexts
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>   WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
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> See for example the output of running:
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>   $ R --version
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> 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
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> R_HOME="c:/progra~1/R/R-2.6.1"
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> 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.
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> Re: bug#42259: emacs-ess 18.10.2 sets R_HOME to a ridiculous value by default
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> Date: 
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> Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:29:44 -0400
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux)
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> Hello,
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> Kyle Andrews <kyle.c.andrews@gmail.com> writes:
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> > I have been noticing many warnings coming from R in several contexts
> > saying:
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> >   WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
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> > See for example the output of running:
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> >   $ R --version
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> > 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:
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> > R_HOME="c:/progra~1/R/R-2.6.1"
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> > 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.
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> This should be fixed in commit 0939462e3f81bc98b38bdb7610e6a80ca1cbaa1b.
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> Closing.  Thanks for the report!
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> Maxim
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