[ESS] [R] ESS and Emacs

[Michael Grant]

Just a followup on this thread. There is a very quick
and easy to to get operational with R and ESS on
Windows XP. Over the holidays, I also I decided try to
'byte' the bullet and move to emacs on windows
(ESS,LISPBOX, BEE(Scheme)) and had similar ESS
travails. In searching R help, thanks to Jonathan's
search facility, I came upon a recent response from
Vincent Goulet (Université Laval) to a similar
question. This lead to Vincent's package for setting
up ESS with EMACS:

http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/#Emacs::Modified

There are, of course parallel pages, in French. 

Installation was as advertised by Vincent--easy as
1-2-3. Note that here the editor is emacs and not
xemacs. Also, I don't know enough about emacs to
ascertain if Vincent has streamlined his package to
ESS with other language capabilities being trimmed.
Despite being emacs-challenged, however, I was able to
get Bigloo scheme's BEE operational within Vincent's
installation by means of a simple cut and paste.

Hopes this helps. 

Michael Grant

Now to get lisp-stat running with it...:O)


--- "A.J. Rossini" <blindglobe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Whoops, ...
...
> 
> 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). ...

> > > -----Original Message-----
...
> > >
> > > 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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