I used the instructions and init.el from John Fox (http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Books/Companion/ESS/) quite successfully. Perhaps it can help you? Cheers
Anne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henrik Andersson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 11:33 AM Subject: Re: [R] ess in Windows (newbie Q) > For you reference, there exists a separate mailing list for ESS, which > you can find on news.gmane.org just like the R list. > > Murray Eisenberg wrote: > > I'm a rank beginner with R, and I'm stumped at how to get it to work > > with Xemacs under Windows XP. I'm afraid there are some VERY basic > > questions I have here. Yes, I did read > > http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/readme.html. > > > > Both R and Xemacs are installed and working. The current ess files are > > installed in a subdirectory of my Xemacs directory. I added the R bin > > directory to my Windows PATH environment variable. > > > > But when I start Xemacs and then give command > > > > M-x-R > > > > what I see in the mini-buffer is > > > > M-x-Rd- > > > > and it's waiting for more input. > > > > So what could be wrong? .... > > > > 1. Where might I find or should I put the requisite Xemacs init.el, in > > which I'm supposed to enter a line of the form > > > > (load "/PATH/ess-site") > > > > to point to the ess location? I found no such file anywhere on my > > system, so I created one in each of the _two_ HOME directories I have -- > > one pointed to by the enviroment system variable HOME and the other > > pointed to by the user environment variable HOME (which seem to be > > different -- I don't recall whether that happened automatically when I > > installed Singular or whether I did it manually). > > > > 2. And what should that file actually be called? The ess docs say it > > should be %HOME%/.xemacs/init.el for Xemacs, but they also say to put it > > in the .emacs (or _emacs) file or default.el or site-init.el. > > I have an environment variable pointing to a folder where I put this my > .emacs file, for Xemacs that would be in the folder .xemacs and init.el > > Try Start/Run cmd.exe and then set HOME to get the location > > > > > I'm using "init.el". > > > > 3. Did I get the form of that line correct for init.el (or whatever it > > should actually be named)? My file ess-site.el is in > > > > D:\WP\XEmacs\ess-5.2.3\lisp > > > > so the line I actually put into default.el is: > > > > (load "/D:/WP/XEmacs/ess-5.2.3/lisp/ess-site") > > I would try without the first slash > > > > > 4. Anything else I should check or do to proceed? > > > > > See if this works, otherwise seek out the ESS mailing list! > > Cheers, Henrik > > > --------------------------------------------- > Henrik Andersson > Netherlands Institute of Ecology - > Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology > P.O. Box 140 > 4400 AC Yerseke > Phone: +31 113 577473 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.nioo.knaw.nl/ppages/handersson > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.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://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
