[R] emacs and R

[Peter Dalgaard]

Louise Hoffman wrote:
>> At the suggestion of many people, I have installed emacs on my linux (Fedora 8.0) computer with the intention of using emacs as window interface to R (2.6.0). I have gone though the emacs tutorial and don't see any information about how I should use emacs to run R. Can anyone suggest a document that I might read? In the past I have used R on a Windows XP system and used the built-in windowing interface.
>>     
>
> Download Emacs Speak Statistics which is a LISP package for emacs.
> http://ess.r-project.org/
>   
It's easier still (on F8):

yum install emacs-ess

and you may also notice the user-friendly menus supplementing the key 
combinations below. These appear automagically if you are in an R 
interaction buffer, or a .R or .Rout file.

    -p
> When installed you can e.g.
>
> M-x R         Start an R process in Emacs
> %
> C-c C-c       Sends a Control-C signal to the ESS process.
>               This has the effect of aborting the current command.
> %
> C-c M-b       Send the contents of the edit buffer to the ESS process
>               and returns you to the ESS process buffer as well.
> %
> C-c M-r       Send the text between point and mark to the ESS process and
>               returns to the ESS process buffer afterwards.
> %
> C-c M-j       Send the line containing point to the ESS process, and
>               return to the ESS process buffer.
> %
> C-c C-n       Sends the current line to the ESS process,
>               echoing it in the process buffer, and moves point to the
> next line.
> %
> C-M-q         Indents each line in the expression.
> %
> M-;           Indents an existing comment line appropriately, or inserts
>               an appropriate comment marker.
>
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