Help: R, Emacs, and ESS in Macintosh - R-SIG-Mac

Sun, Jun 3, 2001 1:59 PM #

Hello!  Thanks for the first report I've seen of ESS/Emacs on Mac OS.

I didn't know that Emacs on OS 9 handled subprocesses?   This needs to
be checked/verified.

Can you do anything like:
        M-x shell ?

Is there an Rterm.exe on the Mac?

If not, we'd have to figure out if R on Mac OS (>=9.x) uses anything
like COM/OLE to communicate (I'm pretty sure it did/does, but also
sure that it wasn't COM/OLE/DDE); this would be in analogy to the
Emacs Splus 2k direct connection.

YP> Hi!  I'm using R 1.2.3, Emacs 20.6, and ESS 5.1.18 on my
    YP> Powerbook G3 running OS 9.0.4.

    YP> I followed the instruction of ESS (I byte-compiled all the
    YP> *.el files by hand), but I'm getting message whenever I type
    YP> "M-x R":

    YP> "Symbol's function definition is void: get-process"

    YP> Did I do something wrong with an installation? Has anyone who
    YP> is using a Mac successfully installed this? I've been using R
    YP> with Alpha editor and it works fine together, but I really
    YP> want to go back to Emacs.

    YP> Thanks in advance.

    YP> - Youngser

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Youngser Park

Sun, Jun 3, 2001 2:18 PM #

Hi, again!

Oh, I didn't know that there was some other requirement to
use ESS/R. I think you're right. I got

"Multi-processing is not supportrd for this system"

message when i typed "M-x shell". It looks like I;m out of
luck. :( Is there anyone working on this matter?

Thanks again.

On 3 Jun 2001, A.J. Rossini wrote:

- Youngser

A.J. Rossini

Sun, Jun 3, 2001 3:38 PM #

YP> Hi, again!  Oh, I didn't know that there was some other
    YP> requirement to use ESS/R. I think you're right. I got

    YP> "Multi-processing is not supportrd for this system"

    YP> message when i typed "M-x shell". It looks like I;m out of
    YP> luck. :( Is there anyone working on this matter?

(>= 9.x) can send/recieve Apple Events, which R for the Mac may be
able to generate.

Can we find this out?

A.J. Rossini				Rsrch. Asst. Prof. of Biostatistics
U. of Washington Biostatistics		rossini@u.washington.edu	
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Richard M. Heiberger

Mon, Jun 4, 2001 10:22 AM #

while you are waiting to learn about multiple processes, you can still
do the editing in ESS in emacs, and get the syntactic highlighting and
other editing awareness that ESS provides.  You will need to manually
pick up and drop highlighted regions from ESS into the R window.
Rich