ESS, Emacs under Win2K

[Anthony Rossini]

inferior Stata processes can not be controlled under Microsoft Windows or MacOS.  I'm not sure about the Win2k problem, but am CC'ing ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch for you.  Someone there should know!

best,
-tony


On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Edward J. Czilli wrote:

> Good day:
> 
> I use Emacs 21.1.1, gnuclientw, AuCTeX 10.0g, SPlus 6, R 1.4.1, and
> Stata 7.0 under windows 2000.
> 
> I decided to install ESS 5.1.20 from 
> http://software.biostat.washington.edu/statsoft/ess/
> so that I could use Emacs with those stats packages.
> 
> I have read the install instructions and the various PDFs related 
> to
> ESS that are available on the web.  I have installed per the
> instructions (to the best of my knowledge).  I have searched
> deja.com for info, but frankly I am stumped on several issues
> related to ESS.  I hope that you can help.
> 
> 1.  ESS and Stata
>      If I load a myfile.do into Emacs, I can see that the Stata code is 
>     higlighted.  However M-x stata-mode does not give me an inferior 
>     process through which I can send the code to Stata.  is there any 
>     way to run Stata code from Emacs and to view the results in Emacs?  
>     or does ESS provide only an environment in which to edit stata 
>     code?  I am obviously missing something here....  
> 
> 2.  ESS and R 1.4.1
>     I can run the R GUI under Windows 2000 without a problem.  In ess- 
>     site.el I edited the line for 'R' as follows (this may wrap oddly 
>     in the e-mail message):  
> 
>     (setq-default inferior-R-program-name 
>     "C:/Progra~1/rw1041/bin/Rterm")  ; msdos
> 
>     From within Emacs if I issue M-x R, Emacs displays the following in 
>     the minibuffer:  
> 
>     ESS [S(R): C:/Progra~1/rw1041/bin/Rterm] starting data
>     directory?
> 
>     I specify an existing directory on the my PC as the starting
>     director:
> 
>     D:\work\rw1041\ess
> 
>     Emacs then creates an R buffer but reports in the minibuffer:
> 
>     apply: Spawning child process: invalid argument
> 
>     And so I am at a loss.   Have I misconfigured something?  What 
>     invalid argument is Emacs (or R) complaining about?  Is the R 
>     buffer the one that I use to edit code?  Can I send code to R 
>     through that buffer?  Is the 'child process' error anything   that 
>     I need to be concerned about?  
> 
> I relaize that these questions may seem trivial.  But I am new to
> ESS and I would appreciate your assistance and/or a pointer to a
> relevant FAQ.
> 
> With best regards.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Edward J. Czilli
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