[ESS] [R] ESS and Emacs

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

If you are indifferent as to whether you are using GNU Emacs or  
Xemacs you might want to use GNU Emacs. I used that some time ago and  
it worked without problems. You will have to install ESS manually as  
Tony described. Since I am currently at a house with a windows  
computer I might even try to do it tomorrow to give you a bit more  
specific info.

/Kasper

On Dec 31, 2005, at 12:41 AM, Mark Leeds wrote:

>
> I found a sample.init.el file
> that I renamed as Rinit.el and put in my
> .emacs directory but I STILL get that "xargs" error
> after a little loading.
>
> Would someone that use ESS and Emacs
> Together on windows mind sending me their init.el file
> And, if that doesn't work, I'll give up
> and just tell myself that
> I gave it my best shot.
>
>                   Thanks
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Leeds
> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 5:31 PM
> To: A.J. Rossini
> Cc: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [ESS] [R] ESS and Emacs
>
> Hi Mr. Rossini : I took
> the liberties of putting
> the load command inside
> my Rinit.el file  and have Rinit.el as
> the target of my Xemacs icon ( see John
> Fox directions for how to do that ).
>
> Things definitely happen which is
> a good sign that I never had before but they go
> so fast on the bottom of the emacs page
> ( I think one of them is "loading cus-face"
> but I can't be sure. I've
> tried running it atleast 20 times to
> see if I can see what it says but I can't )
> but then , after about a second or
> two of loading stuff, it gives an error :
>
> "Searching for program : No such file
> or directory, xargs".
>
> Given that I don't know Lisp, maybe
> I should give up unless this error
> means anything to you or anyone else.
> Basically, I can't tell where
> it's bombing because I have no clue about
> Lisp. Thanks.
>
>                     Mark
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A.J. Rossini [mailto:blindglobe at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 11:37 AM
> To: John Fox
> Cc: R-Stat Help; Mark Leeds; ESS-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] [ESS] ESS and Emacs
>
> Whoops, sorry John.  In the last few months, we took off the XEmacs
> packaged ESS since it wasn't keeping up very well with the tarball,
> due to complications, mis-matched release schedules/requirements, and
> the like.
>
> It now needs to be installed from tarball, though there is some help
> for that, I believe.  (someone remind me what it is!).
>
> On 12/30/05, John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
>> Dear Paul and Mark,
>>
>> I've just taken a look at the current XEmacs setup program for
> Windows, and
>> it has changed significantly since the document to which you referred
> was
>> last updated (about a year ago). In particular, the XEmacs setup no
> longer
>> gives you the option to install all packages, as I recommended. Among
> these
>> is ess, which is not in the small set of packages that XEmacs
> currently
>> installs, nor does ess seem to be available via the packages tool in
> XEmacs.
>>
>>
>> I'm copying this response to the ESS help list, and will remove the
>> XEmacs/ESS document on my web site so that people aren't further
> misled.
>>
>> Sorry for the problem,
>>  John
>>
>> --------------------------------
>> John Fox
>> Department of Sociology
>> McMaster University
>> Hamilton, Ontario
>> Canada L8S 4M4
>> 905-525-9140x23604
>> http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
>> --------------------------------
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of paul sorenson
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 11:51 PM
>>> To: Mark Leeds
>>> Cc: R-Stat Help
>>> Subject: Re: [R] ESS and Emacs
>>>
>>> I tried it with XEmacs on Win XP and I had to install ESS
> separately.
>>>
>>> Mark Leeds wrote:
>>>> I have been using the document written by John Fox titled Sn
>>>> Introduction to ESS + XEmacs for Windows Users of R.
>>>>
>>>> It's a very nice document and
>>>> I went through it carefully but I got
>>>> an error when I finished it and launched XEmacs.
>>>>
>>>> The error is "cannot open load file : ess-site".
>>>>
>>>> So, I did more investigation
>>>> and it seems like there is a folder
>>>>
>>>> Program Files/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/etc/ess
>>>>
>>>> that should have been created when
>>>> I downloaded XEmacs but it doesn't exist.
>>>> There is a folder called efs ( rather than ess ) but I don't think
>>>> that's it.
>>>>
>>>> I tried installing XEmacs again but the same thing happened.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know anything about this ?
>>>> I am using Windows NT.
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>                                      Mark
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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>
> --
> best,
> -tony
>
> blindglobe at gmail.com
> Muttenz, Switzerland.
> "Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which  
> we can
> easily
> roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).
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