[R] ESS with Xemacs? [vs. Emacs, slightly off topic]

[Warnes, Gregory R]

Whoops, typo:

 >  recommended.] If you are, you can use '<Control>-<C> 
 >  <Control>-<D> function-name' to bring a function in an 

should be

 >  recommended.] If you are, you can use '<Control>-<c> 
 >  <Control>-<d> function-name' to bring a function in an 

(lower case 'c' and 'd')

-Greg

 >  -----Original Message-----
 >  From: Warnes, Gregory R 
 >  Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 8:13 AM
 >  To: 'Agustin Lobo'; Warnes, Gregory R
 >  Cc: 'baron at cattell.psych.upenn.edu'; 'r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch'
 >  Subject: RE: [R] ESS with Xemacs? [vs. Emacs, slightly off topic]
 >  
 >  
 >   >  From: Agustin Lobo [mailto:alobo at ija.csic.es]
 >   >  Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 7:47 AM
 >   >  
 >   >  Happy 2002 to everyone.
 >   >  
 >   >  I'm following Greg's directions (with some pain, as I'm not
 >   >  an experienced (x)emacs user) and I find that I cannot use 
 >   >  fix() in the R session. 
 >   >  Before trying (x)emacs I normally had
 >   >  a "raw" R session in an xterm and an editor in another window.
 >   >  When I was done writing the function I run fix() and copied 
 >   >  and pasted
 >   >  the function to the editor session that had been opened 
 >  by fix().
 >   >   
 >   >  I understand that, using (x)emacs I can save the function to a
 >   >  text file and source() it in R, but this seems like an odd
 >   >  procedure considering that both R and the function are in 
 >   >  windows of the same (x)emacs environment. Is there any simpler
 >   >  way of passing the edited function to R?
 >  
 >  Hi Agustin,
 >  
 >  Are you using the emacs/xemacs package 'ESS'?  [Highly 
 >  recommended.] If you are, you can use '<Control>-<C> 
 >  <Control>-<D> function-name' to bring a function in an 
 >  (x)emacs buffer.  
 >  
 >  To get edit/fix to work properly under (x)emacs, you need 
 >  to tell R that you want it to call 'gnuclient' for editing. 
 >   Do this by either setting the environment variable 
 >  'EDITOR' before starting R or by setting 
 >  options(editor=...) with R.  Note that setting the EDITOR 
 >  environment variable will effect lots of programs...
 >  
 >  In my shell startup script I set my environment variable 
 >  EDITOR to point to a small script file called 'MyEdit' that contains
 >  
 >  	#!/bin/sh
 >  	gnuclient $* || vi $*
 >  
 >  this first tries to open the file using 'gnuclient'.  If 
 >  this fails, which it will if (x)emacs is not running, it 
 >  then tries to open the file using 'vi'.  This works well for me.
 >  
 >   >  By the way, is there an R-oriented guide or tutorial
 >   >  to (x)emacs?
 >  
 >  In the ESS source directory, the doc/README.S contains a 
 >  brief tutorial on using Splus/R with (x)emacs.  Its not a 
 >  real tutorial, but it should still be quite helpful.
 >  
 >  For a more general tutorial (x)emacs, try '<Control>-h t'
 >  
 >  It takes a while to get used to (x)emacs, but it really is 
 >  a good environment for interacting with R/Splus once you've 
 >  mastered it.
 >  
 >  -Greg
 >  


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