Seth, Thank you for your response, every worked exactly as you described it, even the fact that ?help does not work very well with a remote session. I will probably open up a separate emacs window with a local R process to access help functions.
I didn't know about the ess-help, I had checked out emacs-help but, looking at an archive, it looked like it had very little activity over the past two years. Maybe I was mistaken? Thanks, Mark Mark W. Kimpel MD Neuroinformatics Official Business Address: Department of Psychiatry Indiana University School of Medicine PR M116 Institute of Psychiatric Research 791 Union Drive Indianapolis, IN 46202 Preferred Mailing Address: 15032 Hunter Court Westfield, IN 46074 (317) 490-5129 Work, & Mobile & VoiceMail (317) 663-0513 Home (no voice mail please) 1-(317)-536-2730 FAX Seth Falcon wrote: > Hi Mark, > > [I've cc'd the ess-help list and any further discussion should probably > happen there with r-help removed] > > Mark W Kimpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I am running ess/emacs on Linux and have an R instance running on a >> remote Unix server. I would like to be able to direct input from my ess >> buffer to R (hope I am using the right lingo, I am new to emacs). >> >> The ess manual contains a section describing how to do just that, but a >> prerequisite is to install a lisp file ssh.el , which can be found at >> ftp://ftp.splode.com/pub/users/friedman/emacs-lisp/ssh . > > In my experience, ssh.el doesn't do anything all that great. Instead > I would try: > > 1. Start a shell inside Emacs using 'M-x shell'. In this shell, ssh > to your remote host and start R. > > 2. In the remote R session do: 'M-x ess-remote'. At the Emacs > mini-buffer prompt type 'r'. > > 3. In a buffer containing R code, you should be able to send code to > the remote session as usual (choose the shell buffer when > prompted). > > Note: > > * C-c C-c will kill your ssh session (and R). IOW, you can't easily > interrupt an R process running remotely. > > * I have never had success getting help to work via ESS when running > R remotely. YMMV. > > * You may find that sending commands to the remote session without > echoing is much faster. So you might try C-u C-c C-r to send a > region. > > > + seth > ______________________________________________ [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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
