[ESS] ESS S-Plus GUI installation

[Vincent Goulet]

Thomas,

Could 

	http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/pub/emacs/ess_s-plus_win-en.pdf

be of any help to you? Following the procedure outlined there has always 
worked for me.

Best,

Le Mercredi 4 Octobre 2006 00:22, Thomas Almer a écrit :
> Dear ESS-users,
>
> I try to use R 2.3.0 and S-Plus 6.2 simultaneously with XEmacs 21.4.19 and
> the ESS 5.3.3 package under MS Windows XP. The XEmacs and ESS part of the
> installation for R and SQPE was pretty easy sticking to the instructions
> at: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/ESS/doc/html/ess.html#Installation
>
> It would be great if someone can help me with the following problems:
>
> 1) The S-Plus GUI cannot be connected with M-x S+6-msdos; The error message
> "Process S+6 is not running" is displayed in the Minibuffer and
> "options(chmhelp=FALSE)
> A subdirectory or file .exe already exists.
> Process S+6 exited abnormally with code 1 at Tue Oct 03 ..." is displayed
> in the *S+6* Buffer.
>
> 2) Sqpe can be activated with M-x Sqpe, but the help pages are not properly
> displayed in the html mode, but as .txt files without explanation. Whereas
> running Sqpe in the command window (outside XEmacs) and requesting help
> (e.g. ?rnorm) works fine and gives me the well-known html helpfiles.
>
> 3) When I start XEmacs I don't get the R, S-Plus and the other ESS buttons.
> Only when a window gets "dedicated" the command C-x b 4 opens a new window
> with those buttons. Is this the way ESS should work?
>
> Thank you very much for your support.
>
> Best regards,
> Thomas
>
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