![]() ![]() IIA: make mouse selection work in the usual Mac/Windows way Maybe you commment previous out and see if your Windows is fixed. There's been a chronic problem with file selection dialogs on Windows I had to cut out a lot of framepop stuff. And for no benefit, as SAS mode still not great. Conflicts between Emacs-ESS and SAS usage forced me to make The intention is to make Emacs work more like a R will assume the current working directory is the document directory. DO NOT want because it conflicts with CUA mode. ESS 13-05 chose instead CTL Enter, which I Shift Enter will send the current line to R, and it will start R Indentation policy follows Programming R Extensions Manual Here are my special features related to ESS with R. Put this file in ~/.emacs, or in ~/emacs.d/init.el, UPDATE: Because Emacs ESS changes made this MUCH easier, my Workaround for shift-enter trouble on Windows Also, it appears the file chooser menus in Windows have been fixed, so I don’t need to work around that either. Some fancy stuff I liked (framepop) conflicted with ESS → SAS usage, so I had to stop that. It used to be needed, but they’ve made a lot of changes in Emacs and ESS. ![]() Note I have a lot of stuff commented out here. In case I change my web host, perhaps it is wise to just show you what I have. ![]() After you experiment with Emacs a bit, you will see it creates a custom user configuration folder in your home directory, generally called “.emacs.d”, and you can copy the init.el file into that folder. You can force that configuration to be used in all user accounts in a computer if you install it in your Emacs directory. I’ve revised this over the years, improvements in Emacs and ESS have rendered some of my customizations unnecessary or harmful. Get my customized startup configuration file for Emacs. That is very customizable, which is the next topic.ģ. You start R from inside Emacs, and the R terminal is displayed in an Emacs buffer. You open a file named whatever.R in Emacs, Emacs notices the suffix, it adds some menus and pulldowns. I also suggest starting emacs from a right-click “open with” on R files, so the system learns that is what you want to do. Run that to add known file types to your Windows Registry. On Windows: Inside the Emacs installation, notice there is a bin directory with a program called “addpm.exe”. Professor Goulet’s effort to package all of that amazes me.īecause I administer so many Windows systems, I generally keep a copy of that at. It has ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) setup inside there, along with other handy Emacs addons. Install the newest version of Professor Goulet’s Emacs Modified for Windows or macOS. (Either paste the whole program into an open R session or read ?source inside R.)Ģ. If you don’t know how to run that inside R, then I’d suggest that should be your first homework assignment. I have a script called R_InstallFaves-2.R that I run inside R. Either way, I recommend that users learn how to add the R bin\x86 subdirectory to the system path, so that Rterm.exe will be found by other programs.Īfter you install R, you have the problem of installing additional packages from CRAN. However, there are good reasons I generally prefer to cut off the version, and just install to C:\Program Files\R and some experts, especially ones who integrate R with programming languages like C , suggest we install in a place with no spaces in the directory structure. Some other programs are taught to look for R in that location, so a novice might be wise to leave R in that location. The default will suggest a folder that is R version dependent, like C:\Program Files\R\R-3.0.2. On Windows, users have a choice of where to install R. There are a few little details that people miss.ġ. On Windows, on the other hand, the editor that R provides is not adequate, and thus you are urged to give Emacs a try. I think you will be happier over the long run using Emacs, but that decision is up to you. If you have a Mac system, it is perhaps good enough to use the editor R.app that R itself provides. That generally allows R to detect the working directory properly, and there will be no need for “setwd()” at the beginning of the program. Instead, navigate in a file manager to the place where the R code file is, and launch an editor there. The key advice, which applies on all operating systems, is that one should not start R from the system menu/desktop icon/Finder. I have more experience with Windows than I do with Macintosh, but I’ve worked on both. ![]() Even if you only use a Mac, you might want to watch that in order to get a visual impression of what Emacs with ESS is all about. For Windows users, I made a Youtube video that demonstrates some editors, emphasizing Emacs: ( "StartR-02", ). I worked up some lecture notes on Emacs and ESS, “Emacs has No Learning Curve” ( ). This is a member of CategoryESS MS Windows
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