Chris,
I don't have great advice. I have been doing this in Emacs with ESS (and friends like polymode) 'for years' and it mostly worked. So thumbs up -- it worth doing and I prefer doing it in Emacs. Polymode is actually rather cool. The world being what it is these days, the predictable six-month cycle of ESS updates stopped at some point with "much bigger, much better" next release "right around the corner". And then that never happened (yet). So sometimes I tried updating via the Emacs package manager, but once or twice something odd happened so I reverted to the content of the deb package I look after -- it is still at 18.10 (even though it is now, just like other Debian ELPA packages, mostly a shim around the (versioned) ELPA package). Long story short, 'apt install elpa-ess' should work. As emails I have 25-ish years of cruft in .emacs but not too too much relative to ESS and RMarkdown. It generally just works and it is fun to use. I really do live in it for just about everything I write these days. Dirk -- https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
