Ess-command

[Rich Heiberger]

This is not easy on Windows.  ESS uses the dde protocol to communicate with
S-Plus and NTemacs has that set up for one-way communication.

Here is the beginning of a complex sequence that does work.

In the buffer from which you wish to send the command (in my example I did
it from the *telnet* buffer in which I read your email) enter
     M-x ess-switch-process 
and then accept the S+6 buffer in the mini-buffer.

Now type 
   (ess-command "page(cat(pnorm (1.204859)), filename='tmp')")
in that buffer, place the cursor at the end and enter
   C-x C-e

The answer will appear in the tmp buffer in your emacs.
Manually, or under program control, move to the tmp buffer and read your
answer.

Placing this under program control is a non-trivial task.
Rich
 
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