[ESS] no gnuclient

[Fredrik Lundgren]

Well,
In gentoo-linux when i start ( Xemacs-21.4.15-r3, ESS-5.2.6) ESS with 
M-x R I get:

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R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Version 2.0.1 (2004-11-15), ISBN 3-900051-07-0

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.

Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.

Type 'contributors()' for more information and

'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or

'help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help.

Type 'q()' to quit R.

> options(STERM='iESS', editor='gnuclient -q')

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When I try edit() and fix() on a small vector I get:

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> k <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6)

> edit(k)

gnuclient: No such file or directory

gnuclient: unable to connect to local

Error in edit(name, file, title, editor) :

problem with running editor gnuclient -q

> fix(k)

gnuclient: No such file or directory

gnuclient: unable to connect to local

Error in edit(name, file, title, editor) :

problem with running editor gnuclient -q

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In my system gnuclient is there in /usr/bin OK but I don't know about 
gnuserv or gnudoit

As far as I'm aware of I have a standard installation of Xemacs with 
sumo and I have ESS in my home directory with a reference to the lisp 
directory in the init.el and from other aspects (that's with the 
exception of function templates, whcih I have never been able to get in 
function) ESS works as expected and OK from my point of view. In init.el 
I have nothing about gnuclient, emacsclient, gnuserv or whatever. 
emacsclient if it's a file  isn't on my system.



Fredrik



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard M. Heiberger" <rmh at temple.edu>
To: "Fredrik Lundgren" <fredrik.bg.lundgren at bredband.net>; "Charles C. 
Berry" <cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu>
Cc: "ess-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch" <ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 1:15 AM
Subject: Re: [ESS] no gnuclient


> On windows you want gnuclient.
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/windows/contrib/
> get both gnuserv.zip and gnuzerv.readme.nt
>
> When you start S-Plus on Windows, we set the editor to gnuclient and
> the pager to gnuclientw.  You should not be seeing notepad when you 
> work from ESS.
>
> From Unix, we normally use emacsclient.
>
> The line you quote
>   options("editor"="xemacs")
> looks wrong to me.  With FSF emacs, you would not want that as it
> would start an entirely new instance of emacs.
>
> We recommend that the master copy be kept in an ascii file myfile.r, 
> and that the
> object in .RData is secondary.  If you need to make a change, we 
> recommend that you
> change the ascii file and then load the revised file.
> See the section in the ESS manual on Philosophies for using ESS[S].
> The manual is
> in .../ess/doc/html/ess.html
>