Problems installing ESS on Sun Solaris with XEmacs 21.1

[Steve Lawrence]

Hi

Thanks for helping me get ESS installed. I'm back to having a decent working
environment for Splus again!

One question I did have was about the possibility of using ESS as a way round the
problem of memory in loops. I am not too sure what the deal is with memory in Splus
- I was told by my econometrics professor that running large simulation loops on
Splus eats memory very quickly. I checked the S newsgroups and it seems that this
is caused by Splus keeping a backlog of undo information. It occured to me that it
should be possible to get around this by using macros within ESS.

I set up a C-x e macro to repeat the last command (which sourced my loop file). I
then used C-u 100 C-x e to repeat this macro 100 times. However, I noticed from the
ps command that the memory used by splus was still increasing linearly. I am not
sure if this is by as much as it would have had I run everything in a loop, but it
still increases.

Do you have any suggestions as to how to get around this memory problem -
especially ones that use ESS in the solution!?

Two final questions : help does not seem to work (claims that reporter could not be
loaded). Is this just a case of installing another package (like was done with
comint)? The other question is why the auto complete does not work for me, even
after resynching. Is this a mistake in the way I (or the system administrator)
configured ESS?

Thanks again for your help

Steve

"A.J. Rossini" wrote:

> >>>>> "SL" == Stephen Lawrence <lawrenst at bc.edu> writes:
>
>     SL> I spoke to the system administrator and he said that since he
>     SL> had reinstalled xemacs, it appears that comint is not included
>     SL> in the standard distribution. He also said that he was busy
>     SL> and had spent far too long trying to get ESS to work and
>     SL> suggested that I email the mailing lists to find out what to
>     SL> do.
>
>     SL> Any suggestions as to how I can get ESS to work with xemacs?
>     SL> Answers in a form that I can give back to the system
>     SL> administrator for him to execute would be appreciated.
>
> Sure.  He (or you) needs to get the sumo-package tarball from
> xemacs.org and he needs to install it.  In particular, you probably
> need the "efs" package installed.  Once that is installed, then the
> pull-down menus and the XEmacs package system can be used to install
> (or more importantly, update) comint (and 60+ other packages).  I'd
> just select all unless you are tight on space).
>
> The sumo package tarball is:
>         ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/xemacs-sumo.tar.gz
> and needs to be unpacked in a place that I can't recall, right now.
>
> If you need more details, send more email.
>
> I _REALLY_ need to get ESS into the default XEmacs distribution.
> Sigh...
>
> They've promised access, and I've been meaning to, and ...
>
> best,
> -tony
>
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