[R] Emacs & ESS under Windows

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Dr. Marc R. Feldesman wrote:

>
> > Now, when you open a *.R file, this opens directly Emacs and ESS. To run R
> > under Emacs, type Alt-x R, and then Enter (this will open a DOS-like
> > window, so you have to come back to Emacs). You switch between the
> > different files, buffers, processes, ... with the menu "Buffers". When you
> > edit a *.R file you can evaluate the R expressions with the "ESS" menu by
> > selecting "eval buffer".
>
> With the changes to the files, I was able to get this
> combination to work beautifully under Windows 2000.  I'm
> an utter novice with Emacs & ESS, but figured that since I
> wanted some "scripting" capabilities for R like those built
> into S-Plus 2000 (& 6.0 & earlier version SP4+), this might
> be one way to accomplish it.
>
> Couple of questions:
>
> 2.  I noticed that under Emacs+ESS + R I am unable to
> tile the graphics window of R with the buffer window of
> Emacs.  Is there an Emacs (or ESS) sequence that
> forces the child windows to tile?

No, AFAIK.  It's not a child window. It is a separate window from a
separate Rterm process. This is like running RGui --sdi, not --mdi.

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