[ESS] problem installing ESS - linux - non-administrator

[Vitalie Spinu]

There have been light years since emacs 21 and ESS 5.2.4. You should
definitely ask your admin for an upgrade.

   Vitalie

 >>> Javier Garcia-Pintado on Mon, 30 Sep 2013 16:27:10 +0000 wrote:

 > Hi Rodney & Stephen,
 > Stephen advice didn't work here, but ESS 5.2.4 install smoothly! 

 > Syntax and embedded R work fine!

 > I'll also try to convince the systemn manager to update emacs and install the
 > supported updated ESS version.

 > Many thanks for your help and ESS!

 > Javier
 > ---
 > ---
 > Dr. Javier García-Pintado
 > National Centre for Earth Observation (ESSC-NCEO)
 > School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 > University of Reading
 > Tel: +44(0)1183787722
 > j.garcia-pintado at reading.ac.uk
 > http://www.nceo.ac.uk/

 > ________________________________________
 > From: Rodney Sparapani [rsparapa at mcw.edu]
 > Sent: 30 September 2013 16:57
 > To: Javier Garcia-Pintado
 > Cc: ess-help at r-project.org
 > Subject: Re: problem installing ESS - linux - non-administrator

 > On 09/30/2013 10:26 AM, Javier Garcia-Pintado wrote:
 >> Hi Rodney,
 >> 
 >> Many thanks for the prompt response.
 >> 
 >> It is:
 >> 
 >> GNU Emacs 21.4.1

 > Hi Javier:

 > Ouch!  That's ancient, circa 2005.  With recent ESS, we only support
 > GNU Emacs 23 and 24;
 > see http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#Requirements

 > Of course, you could try an equally ancient version of ESS such as
 > ESS 5.2.4:
 > http://stat.ethz.ch/ESS/downloads/ess/VERYold/ess-5.2.4.tar.gz

 > However, as you might have guessed, that is not supported any longer
 > either.  Good luck!

 > --
 > Rodney Sparapani, PhD
 > Manager of Statistical & Computational Operations
 > Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research (PCOR)
 > Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), Milwaukee, USA
 > http://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneysparapani

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