[R] ESS and Emacs

[John Fox]

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

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John Fox
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4M4
905-525-9140x23604
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
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