[ESS] [R] ESS and Emacs

[Mark Leeds]

I started part 3 of Kasper's document
and installed ESS without a problem
but now I'm stuck because this part
definitely needs a .emacs file.

If someone happens to be reading
this and can let me know if it's okay
for me to create one myself ( and where
should it go ) and then put
the load command in, that would be great.

I did a search for a .emacs file ( the
one positive thing about this 3
day ESS journey is that I have gotten
more familiar with windows tools etc )
and it only comes back with

.emacs.d which is a folder
OTHER.EMACSES which is a file.

Thanks.

                         Mark
 






-----Original Message-----
From: John Fox [mailto:jfox at mcmaster.ca] 
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 1:01 PM
To: 'Martin Maechler'
Cc: ESS-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [ESS] [R] ESS and Emacs

Dear Martin,


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of 
> Martin Maechler
> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 3:21 PM
> To: John Fox
> Cc: ESS-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [ESS] [R] ESS and Emacs
> 
> >>>>> "John" == John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca>
> >>>>>     on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:32:15 -0500 writes:
> 
>     John> Dear Paul and Mark,
>     John> I've just taken a look at the current XEmacs setup 
> program for Windows, and
>     John> it has changed significantly since the document to 
> which you referred was
>     John> last updated (about a year ago). In particular, the 
> XEmacs setup no longer
>     John> gives you the option to install all packages, as I 
> recommended. Among these
>     John> is ess, which is not in the small set of packages 
> that XEmacs currently
>     John> installs, nor does ess seem to be available via the 
> packages tool in XEmacs.
> 
> 
>     John> I'm copying this response to the ESS help list, and 
> will remove the
>     John> XEmacs/ESS document on my web site so that people 
> aren't further misled.
> 
> Hmm,
> in addition to Tony's explanation...
> {and I hope you don't hate me for stating "the obvious":} it 
> would probably still be more useful if you *updated*  your 
> page instead of removing it....
> 

OK, I'll do that, but there seem to me to be two obstacles: (1) As I
understand it, I'll have to wait for version 21.4.19 of Xemacs. (2) Many
of
the people at which the document is aimed -- relatively inexperienced
Windows users -- will have trouble dealing with the ESS tarball; it
would be
much easier if they could simply get ess as an XEmacs package. 

A couple of other comments: When I wrote the original version of this
document (three or four years ago), I found XEmacs easier to use on
Windows
than GNU Emacs, but that might no longer be true. As well, I no longer
use
Emacs in my own work, so I'm not an ideal person to maintain the
instructions. I'm willing to do so, however, unless someone else wants
to
take over.

Regards,
 John

> Martin
> {who has a link on the ESS web page which points to John's page...}
> 
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