[R] Setting up ESS 5.0

[John Williams]

I am running R 1.0.1, ESS 5.0 and GNU Emacs 20.4.1 under SuSe Linux 6.3, but I
cannot get ESS to start R.  I have tried mailing a bug report from within ESS
but have received no reply after a week.

The symptoms are:  I follow the instuctions in the ESS README, go M-x R, but R
terminates with the message "must set --save, --nosave or --vanuilla".  I do
that (have to hack the ESS source essd-r.el to do so, setting the variables in
/home/me/.emacs doesn't work) , but then ESS reports "timeout waiting for
prompt", even when I set the timout period to a _very_ long time.

Has anyone set up ESS on a similar sytem with success?  As a side note, the
instructions in ESS are out of sync with the make file.  Doing a "make install"
fails due to the fact that there is no "info" target in the Makefile.

TIA

John


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John Williams
Institut für Marketing II
Humboldt Universistat
Berlin
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