[ESS] ess and emacs installation
Marc Schwartz
MSchwartz at mn.rr.com
Fri Dec 30 20:52:27 CET 2005
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 14:28 -0500, Mark Leeds wrote:
> If someone could help me, I would
> REALLY appreciate it because I
> have gone through 2 days of trying
> to install Ess with XEmacs on NT
> and I don't want to give up
> but I have given up trying
> to figure it out on my own.
>
> I have downloaded XEmacs
> without a problem.
>
> It creates directories such as
>
> Program_Files\XEmacs\Packages\
>
> ( but it doesn't have ES bundled which
> cost me a day because I was
> reading some other older documentation
> that assumes it is bundled ).
>
> Then , under this folder there is
>
> mule_packages
> site_packages
> xemacs_packages
>
> and under the xemacs_packages there is
> a lisp folder.
>
> When I am unzipping the ess files, what directory should
> I be unzipping them to ? When you unzip it,
> it creates its own lisp folder also, so I think this
> where I am messing up. Or, atleast I hope this is
> where I am messing up. I am using the EMACS Speaks
> Statistics document but it just says put it under c:\emacs and
> that definitely doesn't work for me.
>
> Also, if someone could clarify for me Step
> 6 on page 14 of the document ( adding the load command )
> that would be great also. that may be one of my problems also.
> Thanks again.
Mark,
I stand to be corrected on this, but as far as I know, the directory is
largely irrelevant, as long as you have the load command in your init.el
file set to point to the ess-site file (full path), wherever it is.
For example, in mine, I have:
(load "/home/marcs/R.Files/ESS/ess-5.2.11/lisp/ess-site")
That is under Linux. Just use the full path on your Windows system, so
something like:
(load "C:/.../ess-5.2.11/lisp/ess-site")
should work. Be sure to replace the "..." with the correct additional
directory structure to your extracted ESS tree. Note also that I used
forward slashes, rather than the usual Windows backslashes.
Under Windows, I believe that post XEmacs installation, the init.el file
will be in:
C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\.xemacs
So just edit that file and add the load command as above. I have mine
towards the bottom of the file. followed by some other settings.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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