Good look in deed! RPM worked a treat... now if only I could find a man page... ;)
Thanks guys, and sorry for my mope. I love R! Cheers, Dan. On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Ulises Mora Alvarez wrote: >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 >> > > ______________________________________________ [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
