Thanks, Paul.

Tried the version for idiots again (and again, the download didn't seem to
finish, but after pausing it and restarting it [in the Firefox download
window there's a pause button which I'd not played with before], it did
!!??) and now have it all working.

Edith

On 23 January 2010 13:00, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32@gmail.com> wrote:

> I made Emacs work on Windows 7 today.  If you install R and Vincent
> Goulet's enhanced version of Emacs with all of the default settings
> (don't fiddle with the path), then Emacs with ESS will "just work".
> x-R does start Rterm.exe.
>
> However, if you put R somewhere else, then you have to make the
> changes you described  in your note. But you have to do them
> CORRECTLY. See below.
>
>
>
[As an aside, I think my paths were correct: if you use something like

c:\MyDocs\MyWork

you need to escape the backslashes by using double backslashes
(c:\\MyDocs\\Mywork).

But if you use forwardslashes they do not need escaping, so

c:/MyDocs/MyWork is fine. At least, that's as I understand it.]

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