[R] Indentation in emacs

[Seth Falcon]

On 12 Jan 2006, goran.brostrom at gmail.com wrote:

> I'm using emacs-21.4 on debian unstable, together with the latest
> ESS implementation. I try to change indentation to 4 by following
> the advise in "R-exts": It results in the following lines in my
> .emacs file:
>
> (custom-set-variables
> ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or
> ;; cut/paste it!  Your init file should contain only one such
> ;; instance.
> '(c-basic-offset 4)
> '(c-default-style "bsd")
> '(latin1-display t nil (latin1-disp)))
> (custom-set-faces
> ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
> ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
> )
>
> But it doesn't work with R code (with C code it works). So what is
> missing?

Try:
(setq ess-indent-level 4)

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+ seth