Whoops, sorry John. In the last few months, we took off the XEmacs packaged ESS since it wasn't keeping up very well with the tarball, due to complications, mis-matched release schedules/requirements, and the like.
It now needs to be installed from tarball, though there is some help for that, I believe. (someone remind me what it is!). On 12/30/05, John Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Paul and Mark, > > I've just taken a look at the current XEmacs setup program for Windows, and > it has changed significantly since the document to which you referred was > last updated (about a year ago). In particular, the XEmacs setup no longer > gives you the option to install all packages, as I recommended. Among these > is ess, which is not in the small set of packages that XEmacs currently > installs, nor does ess seem to be available via the packages tool in XEmacs. > > > I'm copying this response to the ESS help list, and will remove the > XEmacs/ESS document on my web site so that people aren't further misled. > > Sorry for the problem, > John > > -------------------------------- > John Fox > Department of Sociology > McMaster University > Hamilton, Ontario > Canada L8S 4M4 > 905-525-9140x23604 > http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -------------------------------- > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of paul sorenson > > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 11:51 PM > > To: Mark Leeds > > Cc: R-Stat Help > > Subject: Re: [R] ESS and Emacs > > > > I tried it with XEmacs on Win XP and I had to install ESS separately. > > > > Mark Leeds wrote: > > > I have been using the document written by John Fox titled Sn > > > Introduction to ESS + XEmacs for Windows Users of R. > > > > > > It's a very nice document and > > > I went through it carefully but I got > > > an error when I finished it and launched XEmacs. > > > > > > The error is "cannot open load file : ess-site". > > > > > > So, I did more investigation > > > and it seems like there is a folder > > > > > > Program Files/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/etc/ess > > > > > > that should have been created when > > > I downloaded XEmacs but it doesn't exist. > > > There is a folder called efs ( rather than ess ) but I don't think > > > that's it. > > > > > > I tried installing XEmacs again but the same thing happened. > > > > > > Does anyone know anything about this ? > > > I am using Windows NT. > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > > > > ********************************************************************** > > > This email and any files transmitted with it are > > > confidentia...{{dropped}} > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > [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 > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help > -- best, -tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] Muttenz, Switzerland. "Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05). ______________________________________________ [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
