On Mar 17, 2009, at 3:29 PM, steve_fried...@nps.gov wrote:
I'm moving my R applications to a Redhat OS and want to install ESS.
My sys admin has downloaded the rpm (emacs-common-
ess-5.3.8-1.fc8.src.rpm),
but when he tried to do the install he rec'd a number of warnings.
We are
not sure if the warnings are telling us that the installation did
not occur
or if other issues are unresolved. We have attempted to find the ESS
executable with no luck, Which directory would this normally be?
Also Is it more advisable to work with the ess-5.3.11.tgz file and
install
this instead of the *.rpm release?
If you could help identify different issues related to installing
this
package I'd really appreciate the assistance.
Thanks
Steve
The RPM that you have listed above is actually the "Source" RPM, hence
the '.src.' in the file name. You would actually want the compiled
version of the RPM, which would not have '.src.' in the name.
Unlike installing the compiled RPM via 'rpm -ivh RPMName', the source
rpm would first require compilation via the 'rpmbuild' command. Your
SysAdmin should know that... :-)
That being said, it is easy enough to run ESS using the tarball, which
is the current version as compared to the RPM. Un-tar it someplace and
then add:
(load "PATH/TO/ess-5.3.11/lisp/ess-site")
in your ~/.emacs file so that it gets loaded. 'ess-site' actually
points to the lisp file 'ess-site.el' which will be in the 'lisp'
folder in the un-tarred file tree.
BTW, there is an ESS specific list:
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
and a newly formatted web site here with docs:
http://ess.r-project.org/index.php?Section=documentation&subSection=manuals
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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