I'm a rank beginner with R, and I'm stumped at how to get it to work
with Xemacs under Windows XP. I'm afraid there are some VERY basic
questions I have here. Yes, I did read
http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/readme.html.
Both R and Xemacs are installed and working. The current ess files are
installed in a subdirectory of my Xemacs directory. I added the R bin
directory to my Windows PATH environment variable.
But when I start Xemacs and then give command
M-x-R
what I see in the mini-buffer is
M-x-Rd-
and it's waiting for more input.
So what could be wrong? ....
1. Where might I find or should I put the requisite Xemacs init.el, in
which I'm supposed to enter a line of the form
(load "/PATH/ess-site")
to point to the ess location? I found no such file anywhere on my
system, so I created one in each of the _two_ HOME directories I have --
one pointed to by the enviroment system variable HOME and the other
pointed to by the user environment variable HOME (which seem to be
different -- I don't recall whether that happened automatically when I
installed Singular or whether I did it manually).
2. And what should that file actually be called? The ess docs say it
should be %HOME%/.xemacs/init.el for Xemacs, but they also say to put it
in the .emacs (or _emacs) file or default.el or site-init.el.
I'm using "init.el".
3. Did I get the form of that line correct for init.el (or whatever it
should actually be named)? My file ess-site.el is in
D:\WP\XEmacs\ess-5.2.3\lisp
so the line I actually put into default.el is:
(load "/D:/WP/XEmacs/ess-5.2.3/lisp/ess-site")
4. Anything else I should check or do to proceed?
--
Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu
Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H)
University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W)
710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801
Amherst, MA 01003-9305
The basic problem is that ESS is not being loaded. To find the init
file, pull down the "Help" menu item and I believe that there is an
entry "Edit Init File" (or similar -- I don't have access to
(X)Emacs
right now).
Alternatively, after starting Emacs, open up:
~/.emacs
and put it there (it will select your home directory for you).
i.e. C-x C-f ~/.emacs
or
M-x find-file <ret> ~/.emacs
Apologies for being pedantic, if that happens to be the case.
best,
-tony
On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 00:18:59 -0500, Murray Eisenberg
<murray at math.umass.edu> wrote:> I'm a rank beginner with R, and I'm stumped at how to get it to
work
> with Xemacs under Windows XP. I'm afraid there are some VERY basic
> questions I have here. Yes, I did read
> http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/readme.html.
>
> Both R and Xemacs are installed and working. The current ess files are
> installed in a subdirectory of my Xemacs directory. I added the R bin
> directory to my Windows PATH environment variable.
>
> But when I start Xemacs and then give command
>
> M-x-R
>
> what I see in the mini-buffer is
>
> M-x-Rd-
>
> and it's waiting for more input.
>
> So what could be wrong? ....
>
> 1. Where might I find or should I put the requisite Xemacs init.el, in
> which I'm supposed to enter a line of the form
>
> (load "/PATH/ess-site")
>
> to point to the ess location? I found no such file anywhere on my
> system, so I created one in each of the _two_ HOME directories I have --
> one pointed to by the enviroment system variable HOME and the other
> pointed to by the user environment variable HOME (which seem to be
> different -- I don't recall whether that happened automatically when I
> installed Singular or whether I did it manually).
>
> 2. And what should that file actually be called? The ess docs say it
> should be %HOME%/.xemacs/init.el for Xemacs, but they also say to put it
> in the .emacs (or _emacs) file or default.el or site-init.el.
>
> I'm using "init.el".
>
> 3. Did I get the form of that line correct for init.el (or whatever it
> should actually be named)? My file ess-site.el is in
>
> D:\WP\XEmacs\ess-5.2.3\lisp
>
> so the line I actually put into default.el is:
>
> (load "/D:/WP/XEmacs/ess-5.2.3/lisp/ess-site")
>
> 4. Anything else I should check or do to proceed?
>
> --
> Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu
> Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
> Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H)
> University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W)
> 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801
> Amherst, MA 01003-9305
>
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--
best,
-tony
---
A.J. Rossini
blindglobe at gmail.com
For you reference, there exists a separate mailing list for ESS, which you can find on news.gmane.org just like the R list. Murray Eisenberg wrote:> I'm a rank beginner with R, and I'm stumped at how to get it to work > with Xemacs under Windows XP. I'm afraid there are some VERY basic > questions I have here. Yes, I did read > http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/readme.html. > > Both R and Xemacs are installed and working. The current ess files are > installed in a subdirectory of my Xemacs directory. I added the R bin > directory to my Windows PATH environment variable. > > But when I start Xemacs and then give command > > M-x-R > > what I see in the mini-buffer is > > M-x-Rd- > > and it's waiting for more input. > > So what could be wrong? .... > > 1. Where might I find or should I put the requisite Xemacs init.el, in > which I'm supposed to enter a line of the form > > (load "/PATH/ess-site") > > to point to the ess location? I found no such file anywhere on my > system, so I created one in each of the _two_ HOME directories I have -- > one pointed to by the enviroment system variable HOME and the other > pointed to by the user environment variable HOME (which seem to be > different -- I don't recall whether that happened automatically when I > installed Singular or whether I did it manually). > > 2. And what should that file actually be called? The ess docs say it > should be %HOME%/.xemacs/init.el for Xemacs, but they also say to put it > in the .emacs (or _emacs) file or default.el or site-init.el.I have an environment variable pointing to a folder where I put this my .emacs file, for Xemacs that would be in the folder .xemacs and init.el Try Start/Run cmd.exe and then set HOME to get the location> > I'm using "init.el". > > 3. Did I get the form of that line correct for init.el (or whatever it > should actually be named)? My file ess-site.el is in > > D:\WP\XEmacs\ess-5.2.3\lisp > > so the line I actually put into default.el is: > > (load "/D:/WP/XEmacs/ess-5.2.3/lisp/ess-site")I would try without the first slash> > 4. Anything else I should check or do to proceed? > >See if this works, otherwise seek out the ESS mailing list! Cheers, Henrik --------------------------------------------- Henrik Andersson Netherlands Institute of Ecology - Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology P.O. Box 140 4400 AC Yerseke Phone: +31 113 577473 h.andersson at nioo.knaw.nl http://www.nioo.knaw.nl/ppages/handersson
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From: Rau, Roland
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 2:39 PM
To: 'murray at math.umass.edu'; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: RE: [R] ess in Windows (newbie Q)
Hi,
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From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Murray Eisenberg
4. Anything else I should check or do to proceed?
I think you have to change something in the file ess-site.el
Depending on your version of ESS, the line number may vary.
In older versions it was at about line 250.
In my current version (from 28 July 2004) it is in line 326.
You should see something like:
;;(setq-default inferior-S+5-program-name "Splus5")
;;(setq-default inferior-S+6-program-name "Splus6")
;;(setq-default inferior-R-program-name "R") ; unix systems
;;(setq-default inferior-R-program-name "Rterm") ; msdos systems
the last line should be uncommented (by removing the two ";") and the
correct path should be specified.
In my case it looks like this:
(setq-default inferior-R-program-name
"U:\\R\\rw2000beta\\bin\\Rterm.exe")
Is this of any help for you?
Best,
Roland
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