Hi Stephen,

Just to check: when you say you type "M-x R", are you typing the letter "M"?
M-x in Emacs-speech means Meta-x, i.e., Alt-x.

Jonathan


On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Dirk,
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
>
> Emacs and ESS already installed.
>
> $ apt-cache policy emacs
> emacs:
>  Installed: 22.2+2-5
>  Candidate: 22.2+2-5
>  Version table:
>     23.1+1-4~bpo50+1 0
>          1 http://backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages
>  *** 22.2+2-5 0
>        500 http://ftp.hk.debian.org lenny/main Packages
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>
> $ apt-cache policy ess
> ess:
>  Installed: 5.3.8~svn3917-1
>  Candidate: 5.3.8~svn3917-1
>  Version table:
>  *** 5.3.8~svn3917-1 0
>        500 http://ftp.hk.debian.org lenny/main Packages
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>
> On terminal:
> $ emacs
>
> starts Emacs with 2 boxes;
>
> Upper box:
> Welcome to GNU Emacs .......
> To quit a partially enter command, type Control-g
> (I can't type here)
>
> Lower box:
> -u:%% *GNU Emacs* (tab)
> For information about GNU Emacs and he GNU system, type C-h C-a
> (also I can't type here)
>
>
> Clicking *GNU Emacs* (tab) start another upper box (a big box):
> [ess-site.el]: ess-customize-alist=nil
> [ess-site.el _2_]: ess-customize-alist=nil
> (S): ess-s-versions-create making M-x defuns for
>
> (R): ess-r-versions-create making M-x defuns for
>
> Type "M-x R" (without quotes) and hit [Enter]
> there is no response.
>
> Please advise.  TIA
>
> B.R.
> Stephen L
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
> To: Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com>
> Cc: r-help@r-project.org
> Sent: Tue, September 7, 2010 12:32:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [R] How to run R on Emacs+ESS
>
>
> On 6 September 2010 at 09:18, Stephen Liu wrote:
> | Hi folks,
> |
> | Debian 504 64-bit
>
> Good. All you need is
>
>   sudo apt-get install ess
>
> | I found following document;
> | http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~kbroman/Rintro/<http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/%7Ekbroman/Rintro/>
> |
> | Whether it is the right document for installing Emacs+ESS and R so that R
> can
> | run on Emacs?
>
> There is nothing else to do.  Restart (X)Emacs, whichever variant you use
> on
> Debian, and type M-x R. You now run R inside Emacs.
>
> After that, see http://ess.r-project.org, esp the Documentation tab.
>
> Dirk
>
> --
> Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
>
>
>
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