Hi Shreyas, Thanks a lot for explaining this! Once I have re-installed R, re-configured my Emacs distribution and tried out your suggestions I might come back to you if I have more detailed questions about this.
Best regards, Joakim 2020-01-12 21:29 skrev Shreyas Ragavan: > This is my first response here, so I'm not sure if I should have replied to > Vincent's recent response with excellent suggestions, or the original email > (?). I opted for the latter. Please let me know! > >> Forth issue: >> >> At 20:39 in the video, he speaks about ?plot and help functions in R. In >> RStudio this help information opens up in a separate window, but in >> Emacs this information is shown in the same buffer as used for the >> regular tasks. What settings should I put in order to get this help >> information presented in a new buffer. I would prefer to have the >> following setup. .R file in an upper buffer, the *R* in the lower >> buffer. When opening ?plot, I woul like the lower buffer to split and >> the ?plot information being presented on the right hand. > > The buffers can be specified to mimic Rstudio's window configuration > actually. The ESS manual contains a skeleton that you can modify > (https://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiEnrnR7f7mAhVJqJ4KHaxaAK4QFjAAegQIABAB#Controlling-buffer-display). > >> Third issue: >> >> At 16:25 in the video he speaks about Pacman, as a way to manage add-on >> R packages. He speaks that the add-ons are necessary to 'load' in order >> to function. In what way is this done in ESS? Do I have to 'load' >> packages before I used them or are they already available and ready to >> use? How does this work? I should say here that I download packages >> through Melpa. > > Probably also noteworthy to look into docker > (https://www.rocker-project.org/). > >> Fifth issue: >> >> At 30:40 in the video he speaks about creating a table and in RStudio he >> is able to run the following entry (cylinders <- table(mtcars$cyl)) and >> then get to see information about name, type, length, size and value of >> the table in the top right corner of RStudio. Is this possible to do in >> ESS as well in a similar wy? Which command should I use to get to see >> this info? > > Work off Rmarkdown documents using polymode and ESS, or open up an R script > and hit C-c or C-enter to execute blocks or lines of code. This will open up > the corresponding R interpreter and you will see the output as you see the > console output in R. You could start up Mx-R if you really want or optionally > start with an Org mode document with source code blocks like the following > may be the minimum you require. You could also paste the code within the > block headers below into an R file and execute. I typically have all my code > in Org mode documents that I tangle into .R scripts or other source code like > Dockerfiles. > > #+BEGIN_SRC R > # Easy packages just makes the syntax easier to load and install packages in > batch > install.packages("easypackages") > > # Install the tidyverse metapackage. Add other necessary packages here > # as ("tidyverse", "package-name1", "p2"). You may need more installed. > packages("tidyverse") > > # Call up the installed library > library("tidyverse") > # Add your command here > > #+END_SRC > >> These were the questions I had at the moment. Would be very grateful for >> help! By the way, are there any instruction videos of ESS? Reading and >> understanding the manual is not so easy and searching through issues >> that have been discussed before on your site was very tricky, .... > > It is hard to get an overview very quickly. I have captured some notes on my > website : https://shreyas.ragavan.co/docs/ess-datascience-r/ . These are far > from comprehensive or gospel in any form, and I am yet to push updated notes. > However, the keyboard combinations are certainly things that I use very > frequently and it should be useful as a supplement. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
