Re: [R] Configuring emacs/ess on Ubuntu

2008-05-25 Thread Roland Rau
Hi Wade, Wade Wall wrote: I first installed through the package manager, but was unable to start R without opening a script file. So I installed from the tarball, but am still unable to open R using any commands; ESS loads into a buffer; but I can't use M-x-R to open R. the only way I can

Re: [R] Configuring emacs/ess on Ubuntu

2008-05-25 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:40:07AM -0400, Dale Steele wrote: > $ sudo apt-get install > > Installs installs ESS version 5.3.0. Is there a repository for more > recent version? As it happens, "yes and no". There is now a small group working on Ess for Debian/Ubuntu, but there is no Ubuntu rep

Re: [R] Configuring emacs/ess on Ubuntu

2008-05-25 Thread Wade Wall
I first installed through the package manager, but was unable to start R without opening a script file. So I installed from the tarball, but am still unable to open R using any commands; ESS loads into a buffer; but I can't use M-x-R to open R. the only way I can open R is to open a script file

Re: [R] Configuring emacs/ess on Ubuntu

2008-05-25 Thread Dale Steele
$ sudo apt-get install Installs installs ESS version 5.3.0. Is there a repository for more recent version? Thanks. --Dale On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Roland Rau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Wade, > > Wade Wall wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I don't know if this is the proper place to a

Re: [R] Configuring emacs/ess on Ubuntu

2008-05-25 Thread Roland Rau
Hi Wade, Wade Wall wrote: Hi all, I don't know if this is the proper place to ask this, but I am trying to configure emacs/ess on Ubuntu 8.04 to run the way described for ESS and I think the easiest way to install emacs/ess on Ubuntu 8.04 is via the repositories. Simply use your favorite pac

Re: [R] Configuring emacs/ess on Ubuntu

2008-05-25 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 10:07:52AM -0400, Wade Wall wrote: > I don't know if this is the proper place to ask this, but I am trying to > configure emacs/ess on Ubuntu 8.04 to run the way described for ESS and > Xemacs in Windows (John Fox's guide). I installed ess as directed at > http://ess.r-proj

[R] Configuring emacs/ess on Ubuntu

2008-05-25 Thread Wade Wall
Hi all, I don't know if this is the proper place to ask this, but I am trying to configure emacs/ess on Ubuntu 8.04 to run the way described for ESS and Xemacs in Windows (John Fox's guide). I installed ess as directed at http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ . Under Windows I could use Emacs/ess fin