[R] ess in Windows (newbie Q)

[Anne]

I used the instructions and init.el from John Fox
(http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Books/Companion/ESS/)  quite
successfully. Perhaps it can help you?
Cheers

Anne

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henrik Andersson" <h.andersson at nioo.knaw.nl>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: [R] ess in Windows (newbie Q)


> For you reference, there exists a separate mailing list for ESS, which
> you can find on news.gmane.org just like the R list.
>
> Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> > I'm a rank beginner with R, and I'm stumped at how to get it to work
> > with Xemacs under Windows XP. I'm afraid there are some VERY basic
> > questions I have here.  Yes, I did read
> > http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/readme.html.
> >
> > Both R and Xemacs are installed and working.  The current ess files are
> > installed in a subdirectory of my Xemacs directory.  I added the R bin
> > directory to my Windows PATH environment variable.
> >
> > But when I start Xemacs and then give command
> >
> >   M-x-R
> >
> > what I see in the mini-buffer is
> >
> >   M-x-Rd-
> >
> > and it's waiting for more input.
> >
> > So what could be wrong?  ....
> >
> > 1. Where might I find or should I put the requisite Xemacs init.el, in
> > which I'm supposed to enter a line of the form
> >
> >   (load "/PATH/ess-site")
> >
> > to point to the ess location?  I found no such file anywhere on my
> > system, so I created one in each of the _two_ HOME directories I have -- 
> > one pointed to by the enviroment system variable HOME and the other
> > pointed to by the user environment variable HOME (which seem to be
> > different -- I don't recall whether that happened automatically when I
> > installed Singular or whether I did it manually).
> >
> > 2. And what should that file actually be called?  The ess docs say it
> > should be %HOME%/.xemacs/init.el for Xemacs, but they also say to put it
> > in the .emacs (or _emacs) file or default.el or site-init.el.
>
> I have an environment variable pointing to a folder where I put this my
> .emacs file, for Xemacs that would be in the folder .xemacs and init.el
>
> Try Start/Run cmd.exe and then set HOME to get the location
>
> >
> > I'm using "init.el".
> >
> > 3. Did I get the form of that line correct for init.el (or whatever it
> > should actually be named)?  My file ess-site.el is in
> >
> >     D:\WP\XEmacs\ess-5.2.3\lisp
> >
> > so the line I actually put into default.el is:
> >
> >   (load "/D:/WP/XEmacs/ess-5.2.3/lisp/ess-site")
>
> I would try without the first slash
>
> >
> > 4.  Anything else I should check or do to proceed?
> >
> >
> See if this works, otherwise seek out the ESS mailing list!
>
> Cheers, Henrik
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------
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