[R] How to start ESS?

[A.J. Rossini]

Hmm... 

I'd be happy to help, but it would be much better to post to the
ess-help mailing lists...

ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch

best,
-tony

>>>>> "YG" == Yves Gauvreau <cyg at sympatico.ca> writes:


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

    YG> Regards.

    YG> Yves Gauvreau B.E.F.P. Universite du Quebec a Montreal
    YG> 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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