[R] Running Scripting on Linux Machine

[Bronagh Grimes]

Hi Gavin,

I downloaded ESS & can now see a buffer named '*ESS*' in my EMACS script
file.

To start an ESS process I followed the notes in the documentation:

1. To start an S session on Unix or on Windows when you use the Cygwin
bash shell, simply type M-x S RET.

2. S will then (by default) ask the question

3. S starting data directory?

4. Enter the name of the directory you wish to start S from (that is,
the directory you would have cd'd to before starting S from the shell).
This directory should have a '.Data' subdirectory.

5. You will then be popped into a buffer with name '*S*' which will be
used for interacting with the ESS process, and you can start entering
commands.


I can open R via step 1, but step 2 does not then happen.

Any advice on how I go about opening the ESS for working on?

Many thanks in advance,
Bronagh

-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin Simpson [mailto:gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk] 
Sent: 23 April 2009 09:47
To: Bronagh Grimes
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Running Scripting on Linux Machine

On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 09:31 +0100, Bronagh Grimes wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>  
> 
> I am new to using R on a Linux machine & I have a few questions on 
> set-up.  If anyone has experience in this area any advice would be 
> greatly appreciated.
> 
>  
> 
> -          When I open R I have the option to do the following:
> 
> o   'Run in Terminal'
> 
> o   'Display'
> 
> o   'Cancel'
> 
> o   'Run'
> 
>  
> 
> -          My only option to open a window such as we find in the
> Windows version is to choose 'Run in Terminal'.
> 
>  
> 
> -          I really want to run a script where I can run sections of
the
> code each time.
> 
>  
> 
> -          As we know in Windows we have the option to 'Open New
Script'
> & from here can choose 'Run line or Selection'
> 
>  
> 
> -          In this version I can indeed save a script & open with
> 'Emacs', 'KWrite' OR 'Kate'.
> 
>  
> 
> -          But the only way I can run this script is to call the whole
> script using the source() function.

Not so in Emacs with ESS installed. You can run lines, regions,
paragraphs etc. in an R instance within emacs itself. See the ess
website for further details:

http://ess.r-project.org

I don't know about the other K* applications...

G

> 
>  
> 
> -          Does anyone know how I can implement a script that I can
run
> as in the Windows version, whereby I can run one line at a time if I 
> wish for testing purposes?
> 
>  
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
>  
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
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