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[Thomas Lumley]

On 6 Feb 2002, Lorenz Gygax wrote:

>
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to work with R using ESS. (Unfortunately?) I need to do this
> on a windows machine (Windows2000).

I have used the following instructions (specific to recent versions of
XEmacs) successfully in a couple of classes. We give people a CD-ROM with
the XEmacs and R installers and the unzipped ESS directory.

This is less elegant than setting the PATH, since you get the full path
name of R in your minibuffer after M-x R, but it works fairly painlessly
on multiple varieties of Windows.

	-thomas


\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\begin{document}
\begin{center}
  \bf Installing R and Xemacs
\end{center}

\begin{enumerate}
\item Run the program \texttt{SetupR.exe} on the CD-ROM
\item Run the program \texttt{Xemacs-21.4.3.exe} on the CD-ROM
\item Drag the \texttt{ess-5.1.19} folder from the CD-ROM to a suitable
place on your computer, eg \texttt{C:/ess}.
\item Start Xemacs, select Options|Edit Init File, and enter the two lines
\begin{verbatim}
(load "C:/ess/ess-5.1.19/lisp/ess-site")
(setq inferior-R-program-name "C:/PROGRA~1/R/rw1030/bin/Rterm")
\end{verbatim}
\item Exit Xemacs
\end{enumerate}

Now you can
\begin{enumerate}
\item run the GUI version of R from the desktop icon or from the start
menu
\item run R under ESS by starting Xemacs and typing ALT-x R
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}


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