Re: Org babel R command session

[Ihor Radchenko]

Sam Crawford <sam@crawf.uk> writes:

>> The question is whether it is practically useful to have separate
>> commands for R session and R non-session blocks. For most interpreters,
>> it is not very useful - they use the same command.
>> 
>
> I agree that it's unlikely that users will want separate commands
> (though tools like radian do exist).
>
> Regardless, there is still the issue that, if :session is not none, then
> babel will ignore org-babel-R-command, as it just makes a call to
> run-ess-R. So even if you don't want to add more variables (which
> ultimately I'd agree with), it might still be worth wrapping that call
> in something like
>
> (let ((inferior-ess-R-program (or org-babel-R-command
>                                    inferior-ess-R-program)))
>       ...)

Or we can just document that ESS defaults are used for sessions and ask
users to customize inferior-ess-R-program if they need something
non-standard for sessions.

The problem with `inferior-ess-R-program' is that it must be executable
name, and cannot be command with arguments, as in our default value of
org-babel-R-command: "R --slave --no-save". In the absense of people who
are actually making use of the proposed feature, I see no reasons to
complicate the code.

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