[R] Setting up ESS 5.0

[John Williams]

On Sun, 14 May 2000, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> John Williams <jwilliams at commerce.otago.ac.nz> writes:
> 
> > I am running R 1.0.1, ESS 5.0 and GNU Emacs 20.4.1 under SuSe Linux 6.3, but I
> > cannot get ESS to start R.  I have tried mailing a bug report from within ESS
> > but have received no reply after a week.
> > 
> > The symptoms are:  I follow the instuctions in the ESS README, go M-x R, but R
> > terminates with the message "must set --save, --nosave or --vanuilla".  I do
> > that (have to hack the ESS source essd-r.el to do so, setting the variables in
> > /home/me/.emacs doesn't work) , but then ESS reports "timeout waiting for
> > prompt", even when I set the timout period to a _very_ long time.
> > 
> > Has anyone set up ESS on a similar sytem with success?  As a side note, the
> > instructions in ESS are out of sync with the make file.  Doing a "make install"
> > fails due to the fact that there is no "info" target in the Makefile.
> 
> I suspect you'll have considerably better luck with 5.1.13, 5.0 is
> getting rather old.
> 
Thanks for your quick reply! I have d/l'ed  5.1.13 and have had exactly the
same behaviour, except that now I can't even set the start args.  Could someone
tell me how to do this please (set start args so R doesn't terminate saying
'you need to specify --save, --nosave or --vanilla')?

Thanks also to Dirk (expecially for the spelling tip, how embarrasing...)

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