[ESS] ESS-help Digest, Vol 61, Issue 9

Fri Mar 14 14:17:22 CET 2008

>Dear Jordan,

>save yourself a whole lot of trouble and install Emacs with ESS
>preloaded, thanks to Vincent Goulet:

>http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/

>Emacs and XEmacs are pretty similar nowadays so I encourage XEmacs
>users to return to Emacs!

>Stephen

I whole heartedly endorse this statement.  I returned to using emacs after a
decade+ long absence. I chose Xemacs because of the reference by Fox to its
compatibility with ESS and also because I perceived it to be more "Windows"
oriented. I used it for a few months but found problems as upgrades came out
for R and ESS.
I then discovered Vincent Goulet's distribution of Gnu Emacs. I tried it out
and was amazed how gnu emacs has improved since I used it in college in the
late eighties and early nineties.
I have since started using emacs org mode, auctex mode, and other features
and find the help available to be superior to that of Xemacs.
Just one newbie's personal opinion FWIW.
Regards
Munawar Cheema

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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:05:50 -0500
From: Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu>
Subject: Re: [ESS] xemacs - ess problem [FWD]
To: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Cc: jgolinkoff at gmail.com
Message-ID: <47D934BE.6030408 at mcw.edu>
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Jordan Golinkoff wrote:

> Dear Dr. Maechler,
> 
>         I am trying to install xemacs and ess on my new maching
> running windows XP (i had this running on my old machine).  i've
> downloaded and installed xemacs and R 2.6.2.  i've unzipped ess 5.3.6
> into the C:\Program Files\XEmacs\site-packages directory.  i've
> updated the init.el file with the appropriate path to the rterm.exe
> file.  finally, i added the path to the directory with the .xemacs
> folder to my PATH environment variable.  when i run xemacs from its
> shortcut, the following error pops up on the bottom buffer:
> 
> (1) (initialization/error) An error has occurred while loading
> c:\Documents and Settings\jordan.golinkoff\.xemacs\init.el:
> 
> Cannot open load file: browse-url
> 
> To ensure normal operation, you should investigate the cause of the error
> in your initialization file and remove it.  Use the `-debug-init' option
> to XEmacs to view a complete error backtrace.
> 
> i'm not sure what's going on here and i've tried just about everything
> I could think of including using the -debug -init option which is not
> very informative.   i'm sorry to bother you with this but i've grown
> accustomed to using Xemacs to run my R scripts and to code in.  I
> really appreciate your taking the time to develop this software tool.
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Jordan Golinkoff

Hi Jordan:

Did you install the xemacs packages?  ESS requires that you install the 
sumo (all of them).

Rodney

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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:17:34 +0000 (UTC)
From: stephen <stenka1 at go.com>
Subject: [ESS] no ESS process associated
To: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Message-ID: <loom.20080313T171548-142 at post.gmane.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

I get a message "No ESS process associated with this buffer" when trying to
load
a function from its buffer by C-c C-l

How do i associate the buffer?

Thank you.
s.

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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:27:25 -0400
From: "Richard M. Heiberger" <rmh at temple.edu>
Subject: Re: [ESS] no ESS process associated
To: "'stephen'" <stenka1 at go.com>, <ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Message-ID: <000001c88537$ef4f0d50$cded27f0$@edu>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"

To your exact literal question, the answer is C-c C-s

More completely, have you started an ESS process at all?
Which operating system? and which program?  Please include this information
on follow up email to the list.

Please see the documentation in ..../ess/doc/html/ess.html

Rich

-----Original Message-----
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Subject: [ESS] no ESS process associated

I get a message "No ESS process associated with this buffer" when trying to
load
a function from its buffer by C-c C-l

How do i associate the buffer?

Thank you.
s.

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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:51:20 +0000
From: Michael Hoffman <b3i4old02 at sneakemail.com>
Subject: Re: [ESS] no ESS process associated
To: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
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I find that on Windows the association is not done automatically, and I 
must use C-c C-s. But on Linux Emacs somehow figures it out without the 
C-c C-s. GNU Emacs 22.1.1/ESS 5.3.6 on both architectures.

Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
> To your exact literal question, the answer is C-c C-s
> 
> More completely, have you started an ESS process at all?
> Which operating system? and which program?  Please include this
information
> on follow up email to the list.
> 
> Please see the documentation in ..../ess/doc/html/ess.html
> 
> Rich
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of stephen
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 01:18 PM
> To: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [ESS] no ESS process associated
> 
> I get a message "No ESS process associated with this buffer" when trying
to
> load
> a function from its buffer by C-c C-l
> 
> How do i associate the buffer?
> 
> Thank you.
> s.
> 
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