[R-SIG-Mac]Re: Help: R, Emacs, and ESS in Macintosh

Youngser Park parky@seas.gwu.edu
Sun, 3 Jun 2001 17:18:19 -0400 (EDT)


Hi, again!

Oh, I didn't know that there was some other requirement to
use ESS/R. I think you're right. I got

"Multi-processing is not supportrd for this system"

message when i typed "M-x shell". It looks like I;m out of
luck. :( Is there anyone working on this matter?

Thanks again.

On 3 Jun 2001, A.J. Rossini wrote:

>
> Hello!  Thanks for the first report I've seen of ESS/Emacs on Mac OS.
>
> I didn't know that Emacs on OS 9 handled subprocesses?   This needs to
> be checked/verified.
>
> Can you do anything like:
>         M-x shell ?
>
> Is there an Rterm.exe on the Mac?
>
> If not, we'd have to figure out if R on Mac OS (>=9.x) uses anything
> like COM/OLE to communicate (I'm pretty sure it did/does, but also
> sure that it wasn't COM/OLE/DDE); this would be in analogy to the
> Emacs Splus 2k direct connection.
>
>
> >>>>> "YP" == Youngser Park <parky@seas.gwu.edu> writes:
>
>     YP> Hi!  I'm using R 1.2.3, Emacs 20.6, and ESS 5.1.18 on my
>     YP> Powerbook G3 running OS 9.0.4.
>
>     YP> I followed the instruction of ESS (I byte-compiled all the
>     YP> *.el files by hand), but I'm getting message whenever I type
>     YP> "M-x R":
>
>     YP> "Symbol's function definition is void: get-process"
>
>     YP> Did I do something wrong with an installation? Has anyone who
>     YP> is using a Mac successfully installed this? I've been using R
>     YP> with Alpha editor and it works fine together, but I really
>     YP> want to go back to Emacs.
>
>     YP> Thanks in advance.
>
>     YP> - Youngser
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