[ESS] Open R in an external terminal?
Mathieu Basille
basille at ase-research.org
Fri Nov 11 03:03:04 CET 2011
The closer I can see is by using screen, so that you can attach and
detach a R session as you wish (which means using it within Emacs, or
directly from the terminal, or...):
- In a regular terminal, open a screen session:
$ screen -S rsession
and detach it (C-a C-d).
- In Emacs, open a .R file. Divide the frame in two (C-x 2) and open a
shell in emacs (M-x shell). You need then clearing capabilities that you
can have with:
TERM=xterm
- Now restore your screen session:
screen -r rsession
- Open R as with a regular terminal, and use ESS-remote (M-x ess-remote)
to associate this buffer to ESS.
This said, screen shortcuts now conflicts with Emacs ones... I then have
this in my .emacs:
;; used to send screen keybindings to shell in emacs
(define-key shell-mode-map (kbd "C-l") (lambda (seq) (interactive "k")
(process-send-string nil seq)))
(define-key inferior-ess-mode-map (kbd "C-l") (lambda (seq)
(interactive "k") (process-send-string nil seq)))
To detach a screen session, you then need to type C-l C-a C-l C-d...
Is this what you want?
Mathieu.
Le 10/11/2011 20:42, Harold Pimentel a écrit :
>> You can't serisouly ask for:
>>
>> - Open a terminal
>> - Type 'R' and enter...
>
> No.
>
> I would like to open an external R session and still use the ESS
> commands to send regions, buffers, etc. to R. I realize this breaks
> the Emacs philosophy, but it is still something I would like to do.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Harold
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