Starting emacs with R in ESS

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Liaw" == Liaw, Andy <andy_liaw at merck.com> writes:

    Liaw> Thanks a lot for the reply.  However, this isn't quite what I
    Liaw> want.  This, in effect, starts S every time I run emacs.
    Liaw> However, I don't always use S when I start emacs (I do edit other
    Liaw> files in emacs).  What I want is: every time I run R/S, run it
    Liaw> under ESS.  Is this possible?

Yes,
once you have (load ... "ess-site")  or something similar in your .emacs,
you can simply say

    emacs -f R

(on the command line and hence in the command of your "Icon").

which is equivalent to

      emacs
      M-x R


    Liaw> Thanks again, and happy holidays!

You're welcome!

Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>	http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
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    >> From: 	Rich Heiberger[SMTP:rmh at surfer.sbm.temple.edu]
    >> Sent: 	Thursday, December 21, 2000 11:20 PM
    >> To: 	'ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch'; Liaw,    Andy
    >> Subject: 	Re:  Starting emacs with R in ESS
    >> 
    >> I think your question is:
    >> Can I make S start automatically every time I start emacs?
    >> As usual, the answer is "yes".
    >> 
    >> Add the following line to your .emacs immediately after the line
    >> (load-library "ess-site")		;;; ESS for S-mode and SAS-mode
    >> 
    >> (S)  ;;; start S
    >> 
    >> You may need to adjust the variables ess-ask-for-ess-directory and
    >> You may need to adjust the variable ess-ask-for-ess-directory.
    >> From ess-site.el
    >> 
    >> ;;; (3.4) ess-ask-for-ess-directory
    >> ;;; If t, will ask for the directory to use.  If nil, assumes the
    >> ;;; default (usually, the users home directory...).
    >> (setq ess-ask-for-ess-directory t)
    >> 
    >> I think you may want to use
    >> (setq ess-ask-for-ess-directory nil)
    >> 
    >> in which case this ess-ask-for-ess-directory line goes before (S)
    >> 
    >> Rich
    >> 
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