[R] [ESS] ESS and Emacs

[A.J. Rossini]

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 <jfox at mcmaster.ca> 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: 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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-tony

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