Hello Naresh, On Saturday, 10 Dec 2022 at 08:46, Naresh Gurbuxani via ESS-help wrote: > In my organization, IT security set up disables emacs package > installation from package archives (e.g. MELPA) using M-x > package-install. Therefore, I am downloading package tar files from > package archives, then using M-x package-install-file command. This > method has successfully installed several packages (e.g., auctex) on > my computer. But with ess, I have run into problems.
I feel for you. Do you have a personal computer that you can control? I see that you are working in a Windows environment. Many times I installed all the packages one machine then just copied the .emacs.d directory to the other machine, with most packages working as expected. If this is an option for you ESS might work out of the box as well. You might just have to let ESS know where to find R. |(setq inferior-ess-r-program "c:/Users/JeremieJuste/Documents/R/R-4.2.0/bin/x64/Rterm") |(add-to-list 'exec-path "c:/Users/JeremieJuste/Documents/R/R-4.2.0/bin/") Alternatively, for ESS you also have the git repo https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS. >From that you can switch to branch 18.10. You have more information in the manual https://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#Installation. As far as I understand ESS is supposed to work even without compiling it on your machine. Although it won't provide the best experience but is expected to work. | (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/ESS/lisp") | (require 'ess-site) | (setq-default inferior-R-program-name | "c:/Program Files/Microsoft/R Open/R-3.5.1/bin/x64/Rterm.exe") I also note that you are running R 3.5. From the 4.2, R uses UTF-8 as the native encoding. This has been a real pain before. Please see https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/NEWS.html HTH, Jeremie ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help