Hi, I decided to try emacs and ess with R, but to no avail. How are these things suppose to work with R - or work, period? I downloaded the latest windows versions of each and installed them as the documentation says. But then the documentation for ess says to add (require 'ess-site) to /.emacs and restart emacs. Where is /.emacs???? I opened the ess-site.el file and it also says to add the line to /.emacs. Can anyone help me on this? And once I get this problem fixed, how do I interact with R or any other package (S+, Stata, SAS, etc.)? I'm running Windows Vista on a Thinkpad. Any and all help is deeply appreciated. Thanks, Walt -- ________________________ Walter R. Paczkowski, Ph.D. Data Analytics Corp. 44 Hamilton Lane Plainsboro, NJ 08536 ________________________ (V) 609-936-8999 (F) 609-936-3733 dataanalytics at earthlink.net www.dataanalyticscorp.com
See the documentation for ESS in the ESS distribution ess/doc/html/readme.html There is even more detail in ess/doc/html/ess.html For the specific question about the emacs initialization file ~/.emacs, that file is in your home directory which emacs will find. The "~" abbreviation is required and is interpreted to be your home directory. In emacs C-x C-f ~/.emacs <RET> Then enter the line (require 'ess-site) and save the file with C-x C-s Further questions should be directed to the ESS-help mailing list at ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Rich
> Any and all help is deeply appreciated.If you do not want to learn all the inns and outs of Emacs, just download the Emacs distribution provided by Vincent Goulet - it has ESS. Uninstall your present Emacs, go to http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/ download Vincent's distribution, install it, and your are set! Jarek