[ESS] ESS and Emacs Documentation for Dummies
Kasper Daniel Hansen
khansen at stat.Berkeley.EDU
Mon Jan 2 20:55:52 CET 2006
Actually, the original mail is already in a markup syntax, so
generating an HTML document is already possible, I just didn't post it.
/Kasper
On Jan 2, 2006, at 8:07 PM, Mark Leeds wrote:
>
> Kasper : if you can add something to the
> 4th section about how to control the
> R working directory when you do M-X R, I
> can make a new revised document in HTML.
> Thanks. ( I'll also play around today
> and see if I can figure it out myself ).
>
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Leeds
> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 1:05 AM
> To: 'ESS-help at stat.math.ethz.ch'
> Subject: ESS and Emacs Documentation for Dummies
>
>
> What I did was just go through
> Kasper's original documentation and put some
> asterisks around where I think stuff needs to
> Be added/modified in each section.
>
> Martin : I think you were
> the person who asked about the documentation
> so if you want to tell me what
> to do to make this documentation
> "official", I have no problem trying
> to do this ( unless Kasper wants to continue. I
> feel like I owe this list some service ).
> I haven't used latex in years but I am willing to download
> Miktex ( oh no !!!!!! that could
> be scary ) and try to rel-earn it etc.
> or maybe microsoft word is enough ?
>
> Also, the last section of below still
> needs some work but I couldn't
> add anything because I didn't know
> the answer to my question.
>
>
> Below is Kasper's Original documentation
> along with my adds/comments.
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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>
> Installation of ESS+Emacs under Windows
> =======================================
>
> ## Versions ##
>
> Last updated 2005-12-31 using ESS 5.2.11, R-2.2.1 and a danish version
> of Windows 2000.
>
> ## Some background ##
>
> There are two different releases of Emacs: GNU Emacs and
> Xemacs. Until recently Xemacs came with a large bundle of packages as
> well as a windows installer, meaning it was relatively easy to install
> for an Emacs newbie. On the other hand, updating the ESS package for
> Xemacs was harder than doing it for GNU Emacs.
>
> Recent posts on the ESS mailing list have indicated that Xemacs no
> longer ships with ESS ( *************** Mark Leeds change so
> below is
> documentation installing ESS with GNU Emacs )
>
> ## Installing GNU Emacs ##
>
> Get the newest release of GNU Emacs for Windows from
> [gnu-emacs](http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs)
>
> There are several files in this location. I have been using
> `emacs-21.3-bin-fullbin-i386.tar.gz`
>
> Download the file and extract it. Any reasonable zip utility for
> Windows ought to handle `.tar.gz` files. I suggest extracting the
> files to a temporary directory. This directory will now contain
> `emacs-21.3` with the subdirctories `bin`, `lisp`, `etc`, `doc`,
> `site-lisp` Copy the `emacs-21.3` directory to the place you want to
> install Emacs, I suggest `C:\Program Files`. Then run the program
> `emacs-21.3/bin/addpm.exe`, which will add Emacs to your start
> menu. You may want to add a shortcut to `emacs-21.3/bin/runemacs.exe`
> to your desktop and/or quicklaunch bar.
>
> Emacs is now installed.
>
> **********************************************************************
> **
> ****
>
> Mark Leeds' changes to this section ## Installing GNU Emacs ##
>
> When you want to download emacs, you go to the site above but the file
> is called emacs-21.3-fullbin-i386.tar.gz. When you save it in
> Windows (
> to whatever directory you like ), the file gets renamed
> automatically to
> emacs-21.3-fullbin-i1386.tar.tar. In order to be able to
> subsequently do
> the extraction using a winzip program, you have to take off the last
> ".tar" in the name ( I renamed in the file at a dos prompt ) before
> winzip will unzip it. If you don't do this, winzip will give an
> error on
> extraction.
>
>
> **********************************************************************
> **
> ****
>
>
> ## The HOME directory and .emacs ##
>
> Emacs is configured either using a local or a global configuration
> file. Unless you are a sys admin installing a multiuser system, the
> local configuration file will be sufficient. On Windows that file is
> called `_emacs` and the default location is `C:\` or where the HOME
> environment variable is pointing to. In Emacs documentation that file
> is referred to as .emacs (dot-emacs).
>
> Depending on your system it may or may not be useful to setup your
> HOME variable properly. The advantages are that it allows for
> different .emacs files for different users (of course irrelevant for a
> single user system) and that the ~ character expands to the HOME
> directory, as *NIX users may be used to.
>
>
> Setting the HOME is different depending on what version of Windows you
> are running. On Windows 2000 you right-click on "My Computer", select
> properties -> advanced -> environment variables, and then create a
> variable called HOME pointing to the relevant home directory.
>
> **********************************************************************
> **
> ****
>
> Mark Leeds changes to this section ## The Home directory and .emacs
> ## :
>
> As far as I could tell, GNU Emacs does not install a .emacs file
> during
> installation so I just made one myself and put it in the directory
> HOME which in my case was C:Documents and Settings\mleeds.
>
> One can find the value of HOME in windows by typing echo
> %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% at a dos prompt.
>
> **********************************************************************
> **
> *
>
> ## Installing ESS ##
>
> Download the latest version of ESS from
> [ess.r-project.org](http://ess.r-project.org)
>
> This comes in form of either a tar.gz or a .zip archive (there are no
> differences between the two archives). Extract the contents of the
> archive into `emacs-21.3/site-lisp`. That will create the directory
> `emacs-21.3/site-lisp/ess-5.2.11`.
>
> We now need to load ESS. This is done by placing the following command
> in the .emacs file:
>
> (load "C:/Progra~1/emacs-21.3/site-lisp/ess-5.2.11/lisp/ess-
> site.el")
>
> You can test whether it works by starting up Emacs and do
>
> C-x C-f test.R
>
> This should open up a buffer with an R script called test.R. If the
> loading was done succesfully you should see something
> like `(ESS[S] [none])` in the second to last line of the Emacs window.
>
> **********************************************************************
> **
> **
>
> Mark Leeds' changes to the section ## Installing ESS ## : NO CHANGES.
>
> **********************************************************************
> **
> **
>
>
> ## Making sure that inferior-R mode works ##
>
> Try to start R from within Emacs by executing
>
> M-x R
>
> My experience is that this does not work out of the box with ESS
> 5.2.11. In that case Emacs will say somethng like "Unable to locate
> Rterm.exe". In that case, add the following to your .emacs
>
> (setq inferior-R-program-name "C:/progra~1/R/R-2.2.1/bin/
> Rterm.exe")
>
> ********************************************************************
>
> Mark Leeds' changes to the section ## Making sure that inferior-R mode
> works ## :
>
> This seemed to work right away
> for me. I didn't need the setq inferior command above but it was
> asking for a .Rprofile file which I didn't have and the default
> working
> directory is C:/Program Files/emacs-21.3/bin which is not preferred by
> me.
> I would like the working directory of R
> to be controlled by me but I am not sure how to
> do this ( control the working directory when
> it starts up ) but this is probably something that should
> be added.
>
> **********************************************************************
> **
> **
>
>
> END OF DOCUMENT
>
>
>
>
>
> ******************
>
> On Dec 31, 2005, at 12:58 AM, 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. 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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>>> --
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>>> -tony
>>>
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>>> Muttenz, Switzerland.
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>>> we can
>>> easily
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