R help - Dec 2007 - Problems with EMACS-ESS on Ubuntu

I installed EMACS-ESS on Windows XP-Pro and it worked with R perfectly right
out of the box. I was impressed with how easy it is to use (I normally use
Tinn-R). I then switched over to Ubuntu 7.10 and installed EMACS-ESS.
Everything worked the same as in Windows (which is my main reason for using
EMACS) until I tried to send a line of code from the EMACS buffer to R -- R
is running but the code just will not go to it. All I get is a line at the
bottom of the editor window that says "Process to load into: R". I am
new to
EMACS and did not see any fixes that looked promising in the ESS manual. Can
anyone offer some suggestions on things to check? Thanks.

Tom
  
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Tom La Bone <booboo <at> gforcecable.com> writes:
> 
> 
> I installed EMACS-ESS on Windows XP-Pro and it worked with R perfectly
right
> out of the box. I was impressed with how easy it is to use (I normally use
> Tinn-R). I then switched over to Ubuntu 7.10 and installed EMACS-ESS.
> Everything worked the same as in Windows (which is my main reason for using
> EMACS) until I tried to send a line of code from the EMACS buffer to R -- R
> is running but the code just will not go to it. All I get is a line at the
> bottom of the editor window that says "Process to load into: R".
I am new to
> EMACS and did not see any fixes that looked promising in the ESS manual.
Can
> anyone offer some suggestions on things to check? Thanks.
  Emacs just wants you to confirm which buffer the code is getting
sent to (and the buffer called "R" is its default).  The focus should
automatically have gotten set to the mini-buffer at the bottom of the
window, so if you just hit ENTER in response to this query everything
should work fine!

  Ben Bolker

Yes indeed. As usual, I found the answer to my question shortly after I
posted it to the forum. John Fox clearly describes this behavior in his
paper "An Introduction to ESS + XEmacs for Windows Users of R". I
guess I
was confused because the version of Emacs/ESS I installed on Windows
(courtesy of Vincent Goulet) did not require me to confirm that I wanted to
use R. Thanks everyone for the assistance.

Tom



Ben Bolker wrote:
> 
> Tom La Bone <booboo <at> gforcecable.com> writes:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> I installed EMACS-ESS on Windows XP-Pro and it worked with R perfectly
>> right
>> out of the box. I was impressed with how easy it is to use (I normally
>> use
>> Tinn-R). I then switched over to Ubuntu 7.10 and installed EMACS-ESS.
>> Everything worked the same as in Windows (which is my main reason for
>> using
>> EMACS) until I tried to send a line of code from the EMACS buffer to R
--
>> R
>> is running but the code just will not go to it. All I get is a line at
>> the
>> bottom of the editor window that says "Process to load into:
R". I am new
>> to
>> EMACS and did not see any fixes that looked promising in the ESS
manual.
>> Can
>> anyone offer some suggestions on things to check? Thanks.
> 
>   Emacs just wants you to confirm which buffer the code is getting
> sent to (and the buffer called "R" is its default).  The focus
should
> automatically have gotten set to the mini-buffer at the bottom of the
> window, so if you just hit ENTER in response to this query everything
> should work fine!
> 
>   Ben Bolker
> 
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