Double prompt and garbled R help with remote R on WinXP emacs -

i have installed modified emacs version windows xp vincent goulet , want run , edit r scripts contained on remote unix server using ess-remote. after lot of searching able connect remote r session in following way:

1. open shell prompt m-x shell
2. enter following command: plink -x -c username@server
3. after entering password, start r in shell simple command r
4. assign remote process command m-x ess-remote

while able interact r successfully, double prompt , worse yet, if open file function, garbled text in same r process buffer, instead of new buffer opening legible r text. how can buffer open in separate window usual emacs , r interaction, , how can rid of double-prompts when execute shell?

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here contents of site-start.el tramp inclusion reference:

(require 'tramp) ;(setq tramp-chunksize "500") (setq tramp-default-method "plink")  (setq exec-path       (cons    (expand-file-name "c:/putty_shortcut/")         exec-path))  

for colour code issue, need enable ansi-color support in shell mode:

;; shell mode (add-hook  'shell-mode-hook  (function (lambda ()              (ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)))) 

i'm not seeing double-prompt in examples, can create custom shell autoexec file set custom prompt:

(edit: ah, meant double > prompt within r. don't know that, sorry. i'll leave comments below in case it's useful someone...)

program used comes variable `explicit-shell-file-name', or (if nil) eshell environment variable, or (if nil) `shell-file-name'. if file `~/.emacs_shellname' exists, or `~/.emacs.d/init_shellname.sh', given initial input

e.g. init_bash.sh might contain export ps1="\n\u@\h \w $ " simple uncoloured prompt.

see c-h f shell ret more information.