[R] Setting up ESS 5.0

[Faheem Mitha]

Dear John,

I use a very similar setup, R 1.0.0, ESS 5.0 and GNU Emacs 20.3.1 under
SuSE Linux 6.2. Everything works perfectly. 

I would suggest using the rpms for ESS 5.1 for SuSE 6.3, located in the
binaries section of CRAN. These rpms, along with those for R, are made by
Albrecht Gebhardt. The url is

http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/linux/suse/6.3/RPMS/i386/ess/ 

I found Albrecht's rpms always work flawlessly, and I have been using them
for a while. Unless you have strong feelings about where your files should
be located, I suggest you use his rpms for R as well.

Let me know how it goes.
                                          Sincerely, Faheem Mitha.

On Sun, 14 May 2000, John Williams wrote:

> 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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