[R] EMACS and ESS

[Gavin Simpson]

Hi John,

I've used Emacs + ESS under Fedora since Core 1 and the easiest way I
found to install it was to follow the instructions on the ESS web-page.
This had the downside of actively having to be involved with updating to
later versions of ESS, so it was a nice surprise to find that ESS is
available in Fedora and can be installed by yum or Pirut (the strange
front end for package management in Fedora).

The package you want is emacs-ess (byte compiled files to run ESS), and
there is emacs-ess-el (for the ESS elisp sources) if you need it.

The easiest way to install it is to open a terminal and type:

su -c "yum install emacs-ess"

and enter the root password when prompted.

In the main I am very happy with Emacs + ESS in Fedora, but the one
niggle in my day-to-day use is that "it" is slow when sourcing code from
a buffer to the R buffer. IIRC this has something to do with the code
highlighting in the R buffer as turning this off sped things up.

HTH

G


On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 23:18 -0500, John Sorkin wrote:
> Fedora Linux 8
> R 2.6.1
> Intel CPU
> 
> I am trying to get started with R under Linux. It has been suggested
> to me that I run R under EMACS. I have looked at the CRAN website, and
> several other places to try to find an RPM for EMACS and, if I need it
> for ESS. I have not succeeded in finding one. Can someone tell me
> where to go to get the RPMs? If anyone would have a suggestion for an
> editor other than EMACS to use with R, I would appreciate any
> suggestions.
> Thanks,
> John
> 
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