[R] How to start ESS?

[Yves Gauvreau]

I and maybe other, would like to know this as well but for Windows. At this
time I load|start ESS manually each time I start EMACS. I couldn't find a
better way yet. By the way I use it only as an editor and I like it very
much.

Regards.

Yves Gauvreau
B.E.F.P. Universite du Quebec a Montreal
cyg at sympatico.ca

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch]De la part de Christian Hennig
> Envoye : Thursday, January 18, 2001 6:07 AM
> A : r-help-request Mailing List
> Objet : [R] How to start ESS?
>
>
> Dear help-list,
>
> because of my request, ESS was installed in our faculties' UNIX-net by our
> system administrator. At the moment, we have only R installed to be used
> with ESS, no other statistical software.
>
> Reading the ESS online-manual and the R-FAQ, I did not find out how to
> start ESS. The chapter on "Using R" in the ESS-manual seems to be missing
> (this holds as well for the WWW-manual at the eth-zurich).
>
> I understand the "How to start ESS"-part as follows: I simply
> have to start
> emacs and then I can start an S-session with M-x S.
> This gives "no match", which is not very surprising, because S is not
> installed.
> But M-x R does as well give "no match".
>
> If I start emacs with a source file with the ending ".S",
> I get a kind of syntax highlighting. For ".R", this does not work.
>
> Very strange.
>
> Possible reasons:
> -> I missed an important passage while reading the manual or FAQ.
> -> Our installation did not succeed. (But our sysadmin told that
> everything
>    looked nice).
> -> There is something to do which is explained nowhere.
>
> Can you help me?
>
> Best regards,
> Christian
>
> ***
>
> Christian Hennig
> Fachbereich Mathematik - SPST
>  (Schwerpunkt Mathematische Statistik und Stochastische Prozesse,
>  Zentrum fuer Modellierung und Simulation)
> Bundesstrasse 55
> D-20146 Hamburg
> Tel: x40/42838 4907, privat x40/631 62 79
> hennig at math.uni-hamburg.de
> http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/hennig/
>
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