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One feature that I always felt was missing in emacs and ESS was being able to display the plots on an emacs buffer instead of a separate window. This is specially troublesome when working on a Mac where for some reason we don’t have an “always-on-top” option for windows.

Sometimes when writing R code on an ess buffer I need to use a different R process. This is accomplished by using the ess-switch-process function. The problem is that I would like to also change the other-window to this new R session automatically as soon as I make the switch.

This is an improved version of my prevous post Set default ess R session to the default Orgmode R session with the following improvements: also works with inline R session get the properties properly using (org-babel-get-src-block-info) instead of using the ugly hack I was using before.

UPDATE: for an updated version that even works with inline source code use Improved function to set default ess R session to the default Orgmode R session. I write most of my R code on orgmode files which I then tangle or convert to R markdown (using ox-ravel).