[R] Setting up ESS 5.0

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

John Williams <jwilliams at commerce.otago.ac.nz> writes:

> 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.

I suspect you'll have considerably better luck with 5.1.13, 5.0 is
getting rather old.

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