[R] emacs and R

[Gavin Simpson]

On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 21:45 +0100, Louise Hoffman wrote:
> > At the suggestion of many people, I have installed emacs on my linux
> (Fedora 8.0) computer with the intention of using emacs as window
> interface to R (2.6.0). I have gone though the emacs tutorial and
> don't see any information about how I should use emacs to run R. Can
> anyone suggest a document that I might read? In the past I have used R
> on a Windows XP system and used the built-in windowing interface.
> 
> Download Emacs Speak Statistics which is a LISP package for emacs.
> http://ess.r-project.org/

On a Fedora 8 box, one can install ess from exiting Fedora package
repositories.

yum install emacs-ess

as root in a terminal (or use Pirut via Applications Menu > Add/Remove
software) to install ESS.

Then follow Louise's crib sheet to start R within Emacs etc.

There is nothing wrong with installing from the tar ball at the ess
homepage, but with the availability of a Fedora package I keep ESS more
up-to-date than I ever did when I had to manually "upgrade".

G

> 
> When installed you can e.g.
> 
> M-x R         Start an R process in Emacs
> %
> C-c C-c       Sends a Control-C signal to the ESS process.
>               This has the effect of aborting the current command.
> %
> C-c M-b       Send the contents of the edit buffer to the ESS process
>               and returns you to the ESS process buffer as well.
> %
> C-c M-r       Send the text between point and mark to the ESS process and
>               returns to the ESS process buffer afterwards.
> %
> C-c M-j       Send the line containing point to the ESS process, and
>               return to the ESS process buffer.
> %
> C-c C-n       Sends the current line to the ESS process,
>               echoing it in the process buffer, and moves point to the
> next line.
> %
> C-M-q         Indents each line in the expression.
> %
> M-;           Indents an existing comment line appropriately, or inserts
>               an appropriate comment marker.
> 
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