[ESS] several R versions
david whiting
david.r.whiting at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 10:52:16 CEST 2005
On 01/09/05, Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
[...]
> Well, I should agree with Kasper here,
> I've defined my own version of 'M-x R-devel' about 6 years ago...
> long before there were ess-r-versions around.
>
> Kasper, for the moment, add the following to your ~/.emacs (or
> equivalent):
>
> (defun R-devel (&optional start-args)
> "Call the development version of R (using ESS)."
> (interactive "P") (let ((inferior-R-program-name "R-devel")) (R start-args)))
>
> ;; (let ..) defines variables local to its scope, very similar
> ;; to R's local(..) construct.
>
>
> I hope one of us will find the time to make this work along the
> same line as "ess-r-versions" i.e., M-x R-devel will work automagically
> **WHEN** an "R-devel" is in your path.
>
> Martin
>
I'd just like to add a vote for this. I've been wanting this for
while. I don't think my elisp is good enough though to be able to
contribute something. I am going to try your R-devel.
Thanks.
Dave
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