debian unstable update and emacs looses R
Stephen Eglen
S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk
Wed Aug 25 10:55:18 CEST 2004
> I've updated my debian linux unstable this week. After the update
> everything is fine except for emacs not being able to open an R session,
> when I type M-x R , I get a [No match] reply in the minibuffer. R
> installation is fine (i.e. typing R in bash starts R normally) and I've
> also tried running emacs as root but the problem is still there.
> Emacs version is 21.3.1
> BTW with other programs (e.g. M-x maxima) works fine so it seems to be
> an R only problem.
Has ess been loaded - it seems not? To see if it has, do "C-h v
features" and see if ess-site is in the list.
If not, try
"M-x locate-library ess-site" to see if Emacs can find ess-site. If
it can find the lib, but it hasn't been loaded, do
"M-x load-library ess-site"
and try M-x R again.
Stephen
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