R help - Mar 2008 - Installation of R, Sweave, ESS and [X]Emacs on Windows?

I'm trying to get R, Sweave, ESS and XEmacs or emacs all installed and
working together on my Windows XP Pro system. I've got R 2.6.0 working
just fine, installed from the R Windows installer. I also have
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 with XEmacs 21.4 working okay. Can anyone point me to any
documentation on how to bring these together so that R code typed in
Xemacs can be run in R? I found the ESS installation directions here at
http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#Microsoft-Windows-installation
but they seem daunting. I'm not sure that Xemacs from cygwin can work
with R installed alone. Can anyone confirm that I just have to follow
these directions to have everything I want?

Thank you all for your help and advice.

-Kevin

Kevin Zembower
Internet Services Group manager
Center for Communication Programs
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
111 Market Place, Suite 310
Baltimore, Maryland  21202
410-659-6139

Hi Kevin,

Go here:

http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/

and get Vincent Goulet's Emacs for Windows.

Not sure how cygwin enters into the picture; you don't need it for 
either R, [X]Emacs, nor ESS. In fact, if you ever plan to build packages 
on Windows having cygwin installed can be an impediment.

Best,

Jim



Zembower, Kevin wrote:
> I'm trying to get R, Sweave, ESS and XEmacs or emacs all installed and
> working together on my Windows XP Pro system. I've got R 2.6.0 working
> just fine, installed from the R Windows installer. I also have
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 with XEmacs 21.4 working okay. Can anyone point me to any
> documentation on how to bring these together so that R code typed in
> Xemacs can be run in R? I found the ESS installation directions here at
> http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#Microsoft-Windows-installation
> but they seem daunting. I'm not sure that Xemacs from cygwin can work
> with R installed alone. Can anyone confirm that I just have to follow
> these directions to have everything I want?
> 
> Thank you all for your help and advice.
> 
> -Kevin
> 
> Kevin Zembower
> Internet Services Group manager
> Center for Communication Programs
> Bloomberg School of Public Health
> Johns Hopkins University
> 111 Market Place, Suite 310
> Baltimore, Maryland  21202
> 410-659-6139 
> 
> ______________________________________________
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> PLEASE do read the posting guide
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> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
-- 
James W. MacDonald, M.S.
Biostatistician
Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core
University of Michigan Cancer Center
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Kevin,

Save yourself a lot of trouble and use my modified version of GNU  
Emacs available from

	http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/emacs

and also linked from the ESS home page. It comes bundled with ESS and  
AUCTeX, so the only other thing you will need to install for the  
purposes you mention is R itself (upgrade while you're at it, you're  
two versions behind) and a TeX distribution (consider TeX Live or  
MiKTeX). There is no need for Cygwin with this setup.

Hope this helps

---
   Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor
   ?cole d'actuariat
   Universit? Laval, Qu?bec
   Vincent.Goulet at act.ulaval.ca   http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca


Le jeu. 20 mars ? 11:34, Zembower, Kevin a ?crit :
> I'm trying to get R, Sweave, ESS and XEmacs or emacs all installed and
> working together on my Windows XP Pro system. I've got R 2.6.0 working
> just fine, installed from the R Windows installer. I also have
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 with XEmacs 21.4 working okay. Can anyone point me to  
> any
> documentation on how to bring these together so that R code typed in
> Xemacs can be run in R? I found the ESS installation directions here  
> at
> http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#Microsoft-Windows- 
> installation
> but they seem daunting. I'm not sure that Xemacs from cygwin can work
> with R installed alone. Can anyone confirm that I just have to follow
> these directions to have everything I want?
>
> Thank you all for your help and advice.
>
> -Kevin
>
> Kevin Zembower
> Internet Services Group manager
> Center for Communication Programs
> Bloomberg School of Public Health
> Johns Hopkins University
> 111 Market Place, Suite 310
> Baltimore, Maryland  21202
> 410-659-6139
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.