Hi! Perhaps you should try with Paul Johnson's RPM's at:
http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/software/favoriteEmacsFiles/ Good look. On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Dan Bolser wrote: > > Martin Maechler said... > > > >>>>>> "lanceh" == lanceh <lanceh at ibm.net> writes: > > > > lanceh> Sorry if this is a redundent question but I searched the > > lanceh> archives and although I found a couple of similar questions I > > lanceh> saw no responses. I am running in Linux and when I try to > > > >You should have looked in the R-FAQ (see footer of this E-mail) .. > > > > lanceh> invoke R from either XEmacs or Emacs via 'M-x R' I get an > > lanceh> error > > lanceh> message which basically says that Emacs doesn't understand > > lunchh> the > > lanceh> command. What do I need to do so that X/Emacs will invoke R > > lanceh> when I type 'M-x R'? > > > >You need to install the emacs package "ESS" (= Emacs Speaks Statistics). > >(works under both Emacs & XEmacs). > >You find it at any CRAN site, under src/other/ess/. > >Installation instructions are included. > > > >There's a mailing list for ESS, ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch, > >in case you have problems in installation or usage of ESS. > > > Yikes! whatever happened to a good old 'INSTALL' file? > > People should not assume that just because you use linux you automatically > know what you are doing! > > First it took me ages to find the install instructions, they were hidden > on page nine of a pdf file called ess.pdf. Then it took me ages to > understand them. Their are a lot of comments in the file 'ess-site.el' and > I don't think I understood any of them. > > Normally I run emacs by typing 'emacs', I can honestly say I don't know > much more about how it works than that! > > In the end I ignored this file and I just added the "(load > 'path-to-ess-site.el-file')" to my .emacs file. > > compile bit code? not me! > > Then it took me a long time to get going with emacs and ess, I had to > guess the R-mode command, as it is somehow assumed that you dont need it. > > Now I am getting there, but easy it wasnt. > > Sorry for all the complaints, > Dan. > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > -- Ulises M. Alvarez LAB. DE ONDAS DE CHOQUE FISICA APLICADA Y TECNOLOGIA AVANZADA UNAM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
