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SublimeREPL Unable to Find R


Okay, this is driving my crazy. I had set this up before, deleted Sublime Text, and now I can't remember what the right configuration was.

Very simple: I'm running R through SublimeREPL and need to point the REPL to where R is installed.

I followed the directions at http://sublimerepl.readthedocs.org/en/latest/, which say to go into the user-defined REPL settings and add this:

{
 ...
 "default_extend_env": {"PATH": "{PATH}:/home/myusername/bin"}
 ...
} 

where the path points to the right directory. I tried replacing it with

{
 ...
 "default_extend_env": {"PATH": "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.2/bin"}
 ...
}

and it's still unable to find R, plus now it's giving me the error:

Error trying to parse settings: Expected value in Packages\User\SublimeREPL.sublime-     settings:2:2

I know this is an easy fix. Can anybody point out what I'm doing wrong here?


*I'm using Sublime Text 3. I previously had this working, but on Sublime Text 2.


Solution

  • Go to Preferences -> Browse Packages... and create a directory tree User/SublimeREPL/config/R. In that directory, create a new file named Main.sublime-menu with the following contents:

    [
         {
            "id": "tools",
            "children":
            [{
                "caption": "SublimeREPL",
                "mnemonic": "r",
                "id": "SublimeREPL",
                "children":
                [
                    {"command": "repl_open",
                     "caption": "Rterm",
                     "id": "repl_r",
                     "mnemonic": "r",
                     "args": {
                        "type": "subprocess",
                        "external_id": "r",
                        "additional_scopes": ["tex.latex.knitr"],
                        "encoding": {"windows": "$win_cmd_encoding"},
                        "soft_quit": "\nquit(save=\"no\")\n",
                        "cmd": {"windows": ["C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.2/bin/x64/Rterm.exe", "--ess", "--encoding=$win_cmd_encoding"]},
                        "cwd": "$file_path",
                        "extend_env": {"windows": {"PATH": "{PATH}:/C/Program Files/R/R-3.0.2/bin"}},
                        "cmd_postfix": "\n",
                        "suppress_echo": {"windows": false},
                        "syntax": "Packages/R/R.tmLanguage"
                        }
                    }
                ]
            }]
        }
    ]
    

    Save the file, and you should now have a Tools -> SublimeREPL -> Rterm menu option. Double-check that the path is the correct one to the Rterm.exe file. On my computer (32-bit XP) it's in the i386 subfolder of bin, so yours may be in bin/x64 or something like that.

    I hope this helps, let me know if you still have issues.