From Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>  Thu Apr  8 15:22:43 1999
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 15:22:43 +0100 (BST)
Subject: submission method "none" of bug.report() -- interaction with ESS ?
Message-ID: <199904081422.PAA14650@toucan.stats.ox.ac.uk>


> R for unix then ought to have an --ess flag, the way Windows does, to
> prevent such occurrences, and we can handle things appropriately (and
> better!) in ESS.

At present it does nothing visible. The best idea is I think for ESS to
set an environment variable which the R code can check for. As in

if(getenv("R_UNDER_ESS")) options(editor="gnuclient")


(Martin: you can have gnuclient on Solaris, I believe.)

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submission method "none" of bug.report() -- interaction with ESS ?
Prof Brian Ripley