How can I switch between R sessions in emacs-ess?

Question

I have two sessions open in Emacs-ESS: one on my desktop and one on a server using tramp. How can I tell ESS which session to use?

Answer 1

Well I use

M-x ess-switch-process

all the time to switch between my (local) R sessions inside Emacs. Sections 3.2 has details.

Edit As a follow-up to aL3xa's comment, I also have these in a my dot.emacs:

(require 'uniquify)
(setq uniquify-buffer-name-style 'post-forward-angle-brackets)
; Slightly more debatable
(global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-b") 'ibuffer)

which makes the process switch much nicer. Kudos to CGWalters, another Emacs user from whom I copied this.