ESS and EC2 error "R process has died"

Question

I am attempting to use ESS with EC2. I start an instance in the EC2 console and then ssh into the instance.

M-x shell
cd ~/.ec2
ssh -i zmjones.pem [email protected]

Then I start ESS with

M-x ess-remote

Where I select r. However when I attempt to interact with the process I get an error "R process has died." However I can manually enter commands into the shell by pasting commands from my script into the shell.

Answer 1

The process is not correctly associated with the buffer. Try C-c C-z or C-c C-s to associate the current buffer with the process.

If you still experience this problem, would be good to report on ess bug tracker at github or ess-help.