starting inferior Splus process iESS[S]

[A.J. Rossini]

Steve -

Could you write up a nice summary and dump it into the ESS FAQ on
http://software.biostat.washington.edu/ ? 

"Steve McKinney" <smckinney at insightful.com> writes:

> Thank you very much Rich.
>
> I have Emacs/ESS/S-PLUS up and running now.
>
> I had added paths to s-plus and cygwin folders
> to my Windows PATH variable, but had
> not rebooted my machine so these
> folders were not in the path that
> subsequent shell processes were getting.
>
> c:\ProgramFiles\Insightful\Splus61\cmd;c:\cygwin\bin
>
>
> After rebooting my machine, everything
> works swimmingly well.
>
> I really appreciate your patience and suggestions.
>
> It was your 
>
> M-x load-file correctpath/ess/lisp/msdos.el
> M-x msdos
> M-x shell
>
> hint that allowed me to see the bad path variable
> in a shell window running in emacs.
>
>
> Thanks again,
>
>
> Best
>
> Steven McKinney
> Consulting Services
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rich Heiberger [mailto:rmh at surfer.sbm.temple.edu]
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 2:43 PM
>> To: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch; Rich Heiberger; Steve McKinney
>> Subject: RE: starting inferior Splus process iESS[S]
>> 
>> 
>> ESS and emacs can handle any length filename.  They only have problems
>> with embedded blanks.
>> 
>> On the code 128,
>> a. Does the command
>> c:/programfiles/insightful/splus61/cmd/splus.exe 
>> /MULTIPLEINSTANCES S_PRINT_COMMAND=gnuclientw.exe S_PROJ=e:/foo
>> work when manually typed into the *shell* buffer running cygwin sh?
>> 
>> Does the corresponding command
>> c:\programfiles\insightful\splus61\cmd\splus.exe 
>> \MULTIPLEINSTANCES S_PRINT_COMMAND=gnuclientw.exe S_PROJ=e:\foo
>> work when manually typed into the *shell* buffer running msdos?
>> (which you can get with
>> M-x load-file correctpath/ess/lisp/msdos.el
>> M-x msdos
>> M-x shell
>> )
>> Doe it work when typed into the msdos prompt window?
>> 
>> b. if typing into the msdos prompt window causes trouble, 
>> then run down the
>> hall and ask one of the systems people to look at your computer.
>> 
>> c. Since you are at Insightful, running down the hall for a 
>> systems person
>> might still work for the other situations.  Many of the Unix users at
>> Insightful also use ESS, and some of the Windows people do as well.
>> 
>> On gnuserv/gnuclient:
>> You will notice (once you get it running) that by default ESS sets the
>> .S-Plus options editor, pager, help.pager to gnuclient gnuclientw and
>> gnuclientw.
>> 
>> When I want to look at an S-Plus function (lm.default, for example),
>> I type at the command line
>> 
>> page(lm, file="lm.s")
>> 
>> and the file is displayed in an emacs buffer where I have 
>> full editing control.
>> If I forget to give it a file name, it places it in an emacs 
>> buffer with
>> a temporary randomly generated name.
>> 
>> The help files that use the windows help system continue to 
>> use the windows
>> help system.  the ones that use the older style (mostly non-Insightful
>> libraries now) place their help files in appropriate emacs buffers.
>>
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