Splus 6

[A.J. Rossini]

>>>>> "JR" == Jim Robison-Cox <jimrc at gauss.math.montana.edu> writes:


    JR> Hello ESS folks, I'm running ess-5.1.16 on solaris.

    JR>    We've just upgraded to Splus 6.0, and I wonder what all has
    JR> to be done to use version 6 with ESS. I did download
    JR> ESS-5.1.18, and I see in the README file that support includes
    JR> Splus5.x, not Splus6, so I haven't installed it.

    JR>  My naive point of view is that the step from version 5.1 to
    JR> version 6 was not as tall as the step from 3.4 to 5.x, so I'm
    JR> wondering if I can just create an new variable: (setq-default
    JR> inferior-S+6-program-name "Splus6") and run it as I have S+5.
    JR> I've tried editting ess-site.el and ess-cust.el with that
    JR> goal, but I am just kludging it up (get error Splus5 not
    JR> found, which is true, it doesn't exist on the machine I'm
    JR> using, but I don't know which file makes it look for that
    JR> program). Are any of you ESS-gurus using version S+6?

    JR> Should I wait for a nice solution, or are there a few files
    JR> which need to be modified/added which someone could share with
    JR> me?


    JR> Thanks in advance, Jim


You might just rename the S+5 executable name in ess-site to be
Splus6.  I'll hopefully have time to install S+6 next week, but I'd
not count on it...

best
-tony

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