[R] emacs + R?

[Federico Calboli]

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 10:11 +0200, Giorgio Corani wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> 
> As far I as I have understood reading both your past posting and the
> documentation, in order to have the  command-line completion facility, I
> have to run R within emacs.
> 
> However, as I try to start R within emacs as recommended:
> C-u M-x R
> emacs answers [no match]
> 
> the same if I provide the whole path to  the executable:
> C-u M-x /usr/bin/R    [no match]
> 

You need to install the package (library?) ESS for R to work with emacs.
It's really easy if you are using Debian, gust apt-get ess.


F.


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