[ESS] [R] ESS and Emacs
Mark Leeds
Mleeds at kellogggroup.com
Sat Dec 31 18:55:11 CET 2005
I am going through Kasper's documentation very slowly
and carefully. It's a very nicely laid out
document. I am almost finished with the
second part ## The HOME directory and .emacs" ##.
I figured out that my home directory s
is c:\documents and settings\mleeds
and I made a variable called HOME as
Kasper described.
The only problem I am having is that
I can't find a file called _emacs or .emacs ANYHWERE.
There is a file in C:\Documents and Setting\mleeds
called .emacs.d but I don't know if this is
the file he is referring to or if it even matters
if I don't have a .emacs or _emacs file. Or maybe
I should make one ?
I will hold off on the last part, ##INSTALLING ESS##
until I get clarification on this.
Thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: Heinz Tuechler [mailto:tuechler at gmx.at]
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 11:34 AM
To: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [ESS] [R] ESS and Emacs
At 00:58 31.12.2005 +0100, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>If you are indifferent as to whether you are using GNU Emacs or
>Xemacs you might want to use GNU Emacs.
As an "experienced non-expert" I would second your opinion. I used Emacs,
then Xemacs together with John Fox´s instructions, I was very happy to find.
John Fox's page helps a lot, if one is used to typical MSWindows programs.
Still after some time I decided to change again to Emacs, especially
because I could not solve some inconveniencies when printing. At the end I
found it easier to print from Emacs and in the way I use (X)Emacs I found
no advantage in Xemacs.
So my impression is that there could be clearer hints for someone who
starts with (X)Emacs because of ESS, first to try Emacs.
Heinz
>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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