[ESS] gretl support? launch R session at same time as Emacs starts?
Stephen Eglen
S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk
Fri Apr 20 09:07:32 CEST 2007
> > gretldata <- read.table("/home/pauljohn/gretl/Rdata.tmp",
> header = TRUE)
>
> > attach(gretldata)
>
> The instructions say that the default command "xterm -e R" can be
> replaced by any other 3 symbols. I don't know how gretl sends the
> commands into the open R session-- is it one of those "pipeline"
> things?
>
> What are the chances we can make the same thing work with emacs-ess?
The easy part is to use "emacs -f R" to start a emacs session with R
running (although nicer would be to use emacsclient/gnuclient to just
start a new *R* session within Emacs if already running).
The harder part is seeing how gretl communicates with R -- does it
cheat and edit .Rprofile temporarily to include the cmds to load and
attach gretldata?
Stephen
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