On Aug 31, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > If there's a separate ESS user mail list, please point me to it.
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help > I'm using emacs with ESS and want to enter multiline commands for plots. > Examples in my reference books show each line terminating with a comma so > labels and other attributes can be specified for the plot before it is > submitted for rendering. When I try to do this, however, I get an error: > >> boxplot(chemdata$quant ~ chemdata$param), > Error: unexpected ',' in "boxplot(chemdata$quant ~ chemdata$param)," > If you C&P'd exactly as you typed it, you have a ',' after the closing paren for the boxplot() function call, so the issue is a typo, not an ESS problem. Presumably, you might want: boxplot(chemdata$quant ~ chemdata$param, with additional input on another line. Or better yet: boxplot(quant ~ param, data = chemdata, … to take advantage of the formula method for boxplot(). HTH, Marc Schwartz > Please explain how I enter these commands. > > Rich ______________________________________________ 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.
