[R] X/Emacs and R in Linux

[Dan Bolser]

Good look in deed!

RPM worked a treat... now if only I could find a man page... ;)

Thanks guys, and sorry for my mope. I love R!

Cheers,
Dan.

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Ulises Mora Alvarez wrote:

>Hi!
>
>Perhaps you should try with Paul Johnson's RPM's at: 
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>http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/software/favoriteEmacsFiles/
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>Good look.
>
>
>On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Dan Bolser wrote:
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>> 
>> Martin Maechler said...
>> >
>> >>>>>> "lanceh" == lanceh  <lanceh at ibm.net> writes:
>> >
>> >    lanceh> Sorry if this is a redundent question but I searched the
>> >    lanceh> archives and although I found a couple of similar questions I
>> >    lanceh> saw no responses.  I am running in Linux and when I try to
>> >
>> >You should have looked in the R-FAQ (see footer of this E-mail) ..
>> >
>> >    lanceh> invoke R from either XEmacs or Emacs via 'M-x R' I get an 
>> >    lanceh> error
>> >    lanceh> message which basically says that Emacs doesn't understand
>> >    lunchh> the
>> >    lanceh> command.  What do I need to do so that X/Emacs will invoke R
>> >    lanceh> when I type 'M-x R'?
>> >
>> >You need to install the emacs package "ESS" (= Emacs Speaks Statistics).
>> >(works under both Emacs & XEmacs).
>> >You find it at any CRAN site, under   src/other/ess/.
>> >Installation instructions are included.
>> >
>> >There's a mailing list for ESS,  ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch,
>> >in case you have problems in installation or usage of ESS.
>> 
>> 
>> Yikes! whatever happened to a good old 'INSTALL' file?
>> 
>> People should not assume that just because you use linux you automatically
>> know what you are doing!
>> 
>> First it took me ages to find the install instructions, they were hidden
>> on page nine of a pdf file called ess.pdf. Then it took me ages to
>> understand them. Their are a lot of comments in the file 'ess-site.el' and
>> I don't think I understood any of them. 
>> 
>> Normally I run emacs by typing 'emacs', I can honestly say I don't know
>> much more about how it works than that!
>> 
>> In the end I ignored this file and I just added the "(load
>> 'path-to-ess-site.el-file')" to my .emacs file. 
>> 
>> compile bit code? not me!
>> 
>> Then it took me a long time to get going with emacs and ess, I had to
>> guess the R-mode command, as it is somehow assumed that you dont need it.
>> 
>> Now I am getting there, but easy it wasnt. 
>> 
>> Sorry for all the complaints,
>> Dan.
>> 
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