Hi Dirk, Thanks for your advice.
Emacs and ESS already installed. $ apt-cache policy emacs emacs: Installed: 22.2+2-5 Candidate: 22.2+2-5 Version table: 23.1+1-4~bpo50+1 0 1 http://backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages *** 22.2+2-5 0 500 http://ftp.hk.debian.org lenny/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status $ apt-cache policy ess ess: Installed: 5.3.8~svn3917-1 Candidate: 5.3.8~svn3917-1 Version table: *** 5.3.8~svn3917-1 0 500 http://ftp.hk.debian.org lenny/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status On terminal: $ emacs starts Emacs with 2 boxes; Upper box: Welcome to GNU Emacs ....... To quit a partially enter command, type Control-g (I can't type here) Lower box: -u:%% *GNU Emacs* (tab) For information about GNU Emacs and he GNU system, type C-h C-a (also I can't type here) Clicking *GNU Emacs* (tab) start another upper box (a big box): [ess-site.el]: ess-customize-alist=nil [ess-site.el _2_]: ess-customize-alist=nil (S): ess-s-versions-create making M-x defuns for (R): ess-r-versions-create making M-x defuns for Type "M-x R" (without quotes) and hit [Enter] there is no response. Please advise. TIA B.R. Stephen L ----- Original Message ---- From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> To: Stephen Liu <sati...@yahoo.com> Cc: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Tue, September 7, 2010 12:32:39 AM Subject: Re: [R] How to run R on Emacs+ESS On 6 September 2010 at 09:18, Stephen Liu wrote: | Hi folks, | | Debian 504 64-bit Good. All you need is sudo apt-get install ess | I found following document; | http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~kbroman/Rintro/ | | Whether it is the right document for installing Emacs+ESS and R so that R can | run on Emacs? There is nothing else to do. Restart (X)Emacs, whichever variant you use on Debian, and type M-x R. You now run R inside Emacs. After that, see http://ess.r-project.org, esp the Documentation tab. Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com ______________________________________________ R-help@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.