Re: [R] Emacs for R

2010-03-04 Thread Gustave Lefou
Thank you Uwe, Peter and David ! 2010/3/2 David Cross > There exist a number of resources on the web for ESS, which one can find > easily with a Google search on "Emacs Speaks Statistics." Three articles > that did not turn up in my search just now are: > > A. J. Rossini et al. Emacs Speaks Sta

Re: [R] Emacs for R

2010-03-01 Thread David Cross
There exist a number of resources on the web for ESS, which one can find easily with a Google search on "Emacs Speaks Statistics." Three articles that did not turn up in my search just now are: A. J. Rossini et al. Emacs Speaks Statistics ..., Unpublished, 2001, University of Washington (r

Re: [R] Emacs for R

2010-03-01 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi all, Thanks for the info ... I think I had emacs 21 + ess originally, and didn't know about ctrl-g trick. I'll try those next time I looking into ESS. Thanks again, -steve On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:37 PM, RICHARD M. HEIBERGER wrote: >> so if I ran an R command that took a >> long while to co

Re: [R] Emacs for R

2010-03-01 Thread RICHARD M. HEIBERGER
> > so if I ran an R command that took a > long while to complete, I couldn't switch back to my source buffer and > keep messing around with my code while the R process was doing > whatever it was doing. > Normally Ctrl-G gives control back to you while the R process is still running. [[al

Re: [R] Emacs for R

2010-03-01 Thread Ista Zahn
Hi Steve, I don't have that issue with emacs 23.1, ess 5.6.1, and R 2.10 on OpenSuse 11.1. eldoc doesn't work until the current evaluation is complete, but I'm able to edit my scripts files. So there is a way to avoid the problem you describe (seems to work be default with my setup). -Ista On Mo

Re: [R] Emacs for R

2010-03-01 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, Sorry to semi-hijack this thread, but this is a question that's been burning for a while and, well, I think it's still relevant to this discussion :-) I tried using Emacs/ESS when I first started playing with R (and bioconductor). My problem with it was that I believe R is started in the same

Re: [R] Emacs for R

2010-03-01 Thread Uwe Ligges
For a quick low level introduction, I found John Fox' web page for his book "An R and S-PLUS Companion to Applied Regression" useful: http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Books/Companion/ESS/ Uwe Ligges On 01.03.2010 17:41, Gustave Lefou wrote: Dear all, From the recent discussion, I have wonder

[R] Emacs for R

2010-03-01 Thread Gustave Lefou
Dear all, >From the recent discussion, I have wondered where I could find some quick step documentation on Emacs for R (especially on Windows). All I have found is that 80 pages pdf http://ess.r-project.org/ess.pdf Maybe I am asking for too much ? Best, Gustave [[alternative HTML versi