[R] [OT] emacs / xemacs for unix without compile

Gabor Csardi csardi at rmki.kfki.hu
Thu Jan 31 22:10:33 CET 2008


You don't need root access to compile a program (in mose cases).
Just a compiler and enough space.

Gabor

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:45:51PM -0500, Wensui Liu wrote:
> I think the unix is SunOS.
> the secret is I don't have root priviledge. ^_^. So is there a possibility?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> On Jan 31, 2008 3:35 PM, Wittner, Ben, Ph.D.
> <Wittner.Ben at mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > I don't know what unix you're using, but if it's fedora 8, the command
> > yum install emacs
> > did the trick for me. You probably need to have root (a.k.a. superuser)
> > privileges to do that.
> >
> > If you like to use ESS with emacs to edit R scripts,
> > yum install emacs-ess
> >
> > My guess is this would work for any Red Hat linux, but I don't know.
> >
> > -Ben
> >
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