[ESS] help: how to set up R mode in emacs via ESS

[Eric Brown]

For what it is worth, it is fairly easy to install your own 
version of Emacs.

Unpack the recent tar.gz of Emacs source into your home directory, 
and in there:

./configure --prefix=/home/rliu/emacs-24.5 && make && make install

Then, execute

~/emacs-24.5/bin/emacs

With a nice new version of Emacs, you can keep up with the latest 
and
greatest of ESS.


"Liu, Ran" <ran.liu at baml.com> writes:

> Thanks guys for all the helpful information/ideas. I got it 
> fixed by
> rolling back to a older version of ESS in order to be compatible 
> to my
> old EMACS( over which I have no admin right). On top of that I 
> also
> added these three lines:
>
> (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/ess-5.3.4/lisp");;<<CHANGE
> (autoload 'R-mode "ess-site.el" "ESS" t)
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.R$" . R-mode))
>
> Emacs and ess now finally come together when it comes to editing 
> R files. 
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr S.J. Eglen [mailto:sje30 at hermes.cam.ac.uk] On Behalf Of 
> Stephen Eglen
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 4:00 PM
> To: Martin Maechler
> Cc: Liu, Ran; Stephen Eglen; ess-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [ESS] help: how to set up R mode in emacs via ESS
>
> Sorry Martin, I should have followed up to the list.  The 
> problem turned out to be an old version (22.2) of Emacs.
>
> Stephen
>
> On Wed, Jul 29 2015, Martin Maechler wrote:
>
>> What does
>>
>> M-x ess-version
>>
>> give?
>>
>> What about
>>
>> M-x locate-library   [Enter]   ess-help
>>
>> Does
>>
>> M-x  R
>>
>> work ?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Liu, Ran <ran.liu at baml.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> BTW, my ess version is 15.03-1
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Dr S.J. Eglen [mailto:sje30 at hermes.cam.ac.uk] On Behalf 
>>> Of 
>>> Stephen Eglen
>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 2:49 PM
>>> To: Liu, Ran
>>> Cc: ess-help at r-project.org
>>> Subject: Re: [ESS] help: how to set up R mode in emacs via ESS
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am new to ESS and learnt that ESS is the way to go about 
>>>> editing R file with highlighting, coloring in Emacs. Below is 
>>>> the line I put in my .emacs file:
>>>>
>>>> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.R$" . ess-mode))
>>>
>>> Did you also put something like:
>>>
>>> (require 'ess-site)
>>>
>>> in your .emacs?
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> - This message, and any attachments, is for the 
>>> intended...{{dropped:7}}
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> ESS-help at r-project.org mailing list
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This message, and any attachments, is for the intended...{{dropped:7}}