Setting up ESS for Win2000

[John Fox]

Dear Jim,

You might give XEmacs a try. I have a document at 
<http://www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Books/Companion/ESS/index.html> 
describing how to install and configure it.

Regards,
  John

At 03:58 PM 1/3/2003 -0500, Jim_Garrett at bd.com wrote:


>I came up with one more piece of information:  while emacs appears "hung",
>the Rterm process is still running.  When I kill Rterm manually (via the
>task manager), emacs returns to normal (with a message that the Rterm
>process has terminated abnormally).
>
>I would guess that emacs somehow fails to cause Rterm to quit normally, and
>it is waiting for Rterm to stop.
>
>I certainly have a very crude workaround for now (quitting with task
>manager!), but if this bit of info helps, I would love any further ideas!
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Jim
>
>
>
>
>
>rossini at blindglobe.net (A.J. Rossini)@stat.math.ethz.ch on 01/03/2003
>03:35:21 PM
>
>Please respond to rossini at u.washington.edu
>
>Sent by:  ess-help-admin at stat.math.ethz.ch
>
>
>To:   Jim_Garrett at bd.com
>cc:   John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca>, ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>Subject:  Re: Setting up ESS for Win2000
>
>
> >>>>> "jim" == Jim Garrett <Jim_Garrett at bd.com> writes:
>
>     jim> Oops, I've encountered another problem.  I was indeed able to
>start R, but
>     jim> when I quit R, emacs froze.  After a little experimentation, this
>seems to
>     jim> occur only after I have created a plot in a graphics window.  (And
>even
>     jim> after I've closed the window.)
>
>     jim> Specifically, I was running R fine, I created a plot, and I closed
>the plot
>     jim> window (I did this with every means I could think of:  dev.off,
>going
>     jim> through the graphics window's file menu, and simply clicking on
>the "close
>     jim> window" Windows icon).  Then I entered "q()", entered "n" at the
>"Save
>     jim> workspace image?" prompt, and then emacs hung.
>
>     jim> This does not happen if I have never created a plot.
>
>
>Interesting.  Can any one else verify this, or try it under XEmacs?
>
>best,
>-tony
>
>--
>A.J. Rossini                  Rsrch. Asst. Prof. of Biostatistics

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