

I recommend Vincent Goulet's distribution

http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/emacs/

Regards

Ross
On 07/06/11 00:34, Vasiliev, Boris wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:53:40 -0500
>> From: Rodney Sparapani<rsparapa@mcw.edu>
>> To:<ess-help@stat.math.ethz.ch>
>> Subject: Re: [ESS] XEmacs, ESS on Cygwin and R on Windows XP:
>> 	inferrior-ess-prompt problem
>> Message-ID:<isashk$dv4$1@dough.gmane.org>
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>>
>> Vasiliev, Boris wrote:
>>> Good morning,
>>>
>>> I am setting up a Windows XP system with Cygwin, XEmacs, R, and ESS
>>> and I run into a problem - M-x R does not start an R process.  I
> would
>>> greatly appreciate your help or comments on how to approach the
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> For R, I have R for Windows, version 2.13.0, with executables in
>>> c:/R/R-2.13.0/bin/i386.
>>>
>>> For XEmacs, I use XEmacs 21.4 (Patch 22) that is offered in the
>>> latest release of Cygwin 1.7.9.   XEmacs runs in Windows native GUI
> mode
>>> (not X11 or console mode)
>>>
>>> For ESS, I installed ESS 5.13 in the cygwin directory tree at
>>> /usr/local/share/xemacs/site-packages/ess-5.13
>>>
>>> The initialization file for XEmacs, ~/.xemacs/init.el, has only few
>>> lines:
>>>
>>> ;; ?need this definition to get XEmacs to load ESS; otherwise ESS
>>> ;; complains?
>>> (defun w32-short-file-name (x)
>>> "Placeholder for use with XEmacs.  The real function in Emacs
> returns
>>> 8.3 version of full path name of the
>>> Argument.  This placeholder returns its argument only."
>>> x)
>>> (setq inferior-R-program-name
> /cygdrive/c/R/R-2.13.0/bin/i386/Rterm.exe)
>>> (require 'ess-site)
>>>
>>> XEmacs recognizes ESS (there is an *ESS* buffer), but when I use
> "M-x
>>> R" to start R XEmacs hangs. In the *ESS* buffer there are messages
> that
>>> ESS is setting up communication with R.  The final line is
>>> "Making Process...Buf *R*, Proc R, Prog
>>> /cygdrive/c/R/R-2.13.0/bin/i386/Rterm.exe Start file=nil,
> Args=--ess."
>>> After a while, a message appears in the command buffer: "Timeout
>>> waiting for prompt.  Check inferior-ess-prompt or ess-loop-timeout."
>>> Surprisingly, if an .R file is already open I can start R by
> pressing
>>> the R button below the menus.
>>>
>>>  From looking at the forums, this is a known problem but I could not
>>> find a solution.  Apart from installing XEmacs, ESS, and R in the
> same
>>> environment, either Windows or Cygwin, is there a simple way to
> solve
>>> this problem?  (I am hesitant to install R on Cygwin because the R
> Team
>>> does support the Cygwin port but it supports the Windows version.  I
>>> am hesitant to install XEmacs on Windows because I keep most of my
> work
>>> in Cygwin directory tree and I am not sure how well XEmacs on
> Windows
>>> will handle it.)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Boris.
>> Hi Boris:
>>
>> Shouldn't that be ...
>> (setq inferior-R-program-name "/cygdrive/c/R/R-
>> 2.13.0/bin/i386/Rterm.exe")
>>
>> If that is not the problem or it does not help, then read on for more
>> radical tips (heavy XEmacs users look away now)...
>>
>> Is there some reason that you need to use XEmacs?  I have never been a
>> fan of XEmacs on Windows.  I find XEmacs to be pretty serviceable on
>> Linux and Unix, but I have never liked the Windows or Mac OS X
>> versions.
>>    Some times switching from XEmacs to Emacs (or vice versa)
>> will fix these kinds of problems.
>>
>> Rodney
>>
> Hi Rodney,
>
> Thank you for quick reply.  Indeed the quotes should have been in place
> but
> it does not solve the problem.
>
> I do not have any strong emotional attachments to XEmacs and I'll try
> Emacs
> instead. If this does not work I'll shift the whole set-up - R,
> (X)Emacs, ESS -
> to Windows XP.
>
> Regards,
> Boris.
>
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