From your description it seems to work: you do just not start R with Emacs in this fashion. Emacs is - in my opinion - an extremely good editor for use with R, because of the way the help system and other things interact with Emacs. However, if you have never used Emacs before it will also be along hard road - it takes a _long_ time to be familiar with Emacs. Rest assured that you will be (very) frustrated at times until you suddenly get it :)
Nevertheless, here is an easy walk through to get R and Emacs to work 1) Download R from CRAN. Install it (while you are at it, remember to choose "customize" during installation and install g77 and the tcl/tk stuff. This will give you R inside your application folder, which you can click on to start. Doing so yields a "standard" R editor. 2) Now you need to install Emacs. There are various versions. I use "Carbon" Emacs which is a version of Emacs for Mac which is Unix-like in its behaviour. There is also AquaEmacs (google it) which is more Mac-centric. I choose Carbon Emacs because I want keyboard shortcuts etc. to behave in the same way across platforms - I frequently use Unix-like systems. Get Carbon Emacs from here http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/emacs-e.html Install it like any other application. Again you get an application you start like any other application. 3) Now it is time to get ESS (Emacs speaks statistics) working. This is a package for Emacs which makes Emacs works nicely with R (and other stuff). Fortunately, Carbon Emacs comes with ESS installed (you may have to install it under AquaEmacs). We just need to activate it. In order to do so, use a text editor (eg. Text Edit) to open up a file ~/.emacs (~ = your home directory) This is your Emacs configuration file. In that file you place the following line (require 'ess-site) You should now be able to start Emacs without any error messages. If you get an error message, you have probably mistyped something. 4) Start up Emacs and type M-x R (you do this by holding either the ALT or the APPLE key down while you press x. Then you see "M-x" in Emacs. You type R and return. You should now see R open up inside emacs. Have fun and type a few commands. 5) Finally we need to get graphics working. Open up the file ~/.profile and enter the following line export DISPLAY=:0.0 You should now be able to plot graphics from the inside of Emacs Further discussion of ESS/Emacs should be directed at the ESS list. /Kasper On Apr 15, 2006, at 5:39 PM, Benjamin Arthur wrote: > Hello, > I am having difficulty getting R to work on my Mac OS X 10.4.6 > powerbook G4 > and also with downloading emacs. I have been able to download the R > but when > I double click the icon I get a page with the copyright info and a few > commands about license and to quit, etc. Executing the 'help.start()' > command from that screen, opens another window with manuals, > reference, etc. > Could anyone help me to get R working with the partition screen > from emacs > on my computer? Or does the Mac have a better editor that I could > use to > navigate through R. I will most appreciate that. Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
