[ESS] Is ess supposed to help with Sweave documents?

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "PaulEJ" == Paul Johnson <pauljohn at ku.edu>
>>>>>     on Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:29:26 -0500 writes:

    PaulEJ> Thanks! The functions mentioned in that email have
    PaulEJ> the promise to do just what I want.  I tucked them
    PaulEJ> into my ~/.emacs and changed my Sweave file name to
    PaulEJ> doc.Rnw.

    PaulEJ> The first function, which sends the thing to R and
    PaulEJ> runs Swaeave, does work.

    PaulEJ> However, when I try the next step, the emacs status
    PaulEJ> bar says the error is:

    PaulEJ> substring: Symbol's function definition is void: search

    PaulEJ> Does this mean that Dave's script assumes access to
    PaulEJ> a function called search that I do not have,

    PaulEJ>  or does it mean I have search and it is failing. I'm sorry
    PaulEJ> to be so elementary... 

the first one:  He uses (search ....) in quite a few of his functions
but there's no emacs-lisp function called "search" in GNU Emacs 21.3.

David, where do you get it from?

    PaulEJ> Stephen Eglen wrote:
    >> 
    >> Paul Johnson writes:
    >> > I was just learning how to do Sweave documents with Emacs & R.  I did 
    >> > not find a simple 1-2-3 explanation of how this is supposed to go.
    >> 
    >> hi Paul, not a complete answer, but have you seen:
    >> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/ess-help/2004-September/002108.html
    >> 

Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich