[R] [OT] emacs / xemacs for unix without compile

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Wensui Liu wrote:

> I think the unix is SunOS.
> the secret is I don't have root priviledge. ^_^. So is there a possibility?

At least two projects have Emacs for Solaris aka SunOS using the 
Solaris pkgadd format.  Request your sysadmins to add emacs for you.

>
> Thanks.
>
> On Jan 31, 2008 3:35 PM, Wittner, Ben, Ph.D.
> <Wittner.Ben at mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> I don't know what unix you're using, but if it's fedora 8, the command
>> yum install emacs
>> did the trick for me. You probably need to have root (a.k.a. superuser)
>> privileges to do that.
>>
>> If you like to use ESS with emacs to edit R scripts,
>> yum install emacs-ess
>>
>> My guess is this would work for any Red Hat linux, but I don't know.
>>
>> -Ben
>>
>>
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>>> Subject: [R] [OT] emacs / xemacs for unix without compile
>>>
>>> Dear All,
>>> Is there a emacs/xemacs for unix without compiling it? If it is
>>> possible, I prefer something that I can use immediately after putting
>>> it on the unix server.
>>> Is it possible or am I too stupid to ask this kind of question?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your insight!
>>>
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