ESS with R and S-PLUS under Windows 9x/NT.
From: rossini@biostat.washington.edu (A.J. Rossini) Date: 23 Nov 1998 12:46:03 -0800 Thanks much. I'm hacking Emacs/ESS on MS Windows platforms starting mid next month, thanks to some external prodding (and now, product availability from both R, Splus). And I think XLispStat might be able to talk (at least DDE), as well, which would be nice If anyone evaluates the situation before then (ESS/Emacs/R on MS Windows 95/98/NT), please send me some email with comments, to help me out! (MS isn't my native environment by a long shot :-).
I have a version of R that does work I believe with ESS on NTEmacs, at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/R/win32/new/bdr0631.zip The only thing I had to do was to run .../bin/rterm.exe with the starting argument --ess. This convinces the R executable that it is attached to a terminal and so to behave in interactive mode. I am no great exponent (not fan) of inferior mode, but everything I tried worked exactly as on Unix, even down to needing to go into the *R* buffer to confirm options when quitting. Two caveats: -- Only tested so far on Windows 95. It may not work on NT, as the R executables won't run from the NT command line, yet. -- This may depend on your shell setting for NTEmacs. On the S-PLUS front, if you have (setenv "ALWAYS_PROMPT" "T") the s+3 inferior mode works right out of the box once you set the executable to be SHOME/cmd/sqpe.exe. This gives you everything except access to graphsheets. And my DDE solutions give modest success if graphsheets are needed.
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