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ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) is an emacs add-on for editing scripts and interacting with statistical programs such as R, Stata or SAS.

Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) is an add-on package for emacs text editors such as GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It is designed to support editing of scripts and interaction with various statistical analysis programs such as R, S-Plus, SAS, Stata and JAGS.

ESS is freely available under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

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ESS workflow for R project/package development

Can anyone share his experience on workflow for R peject development under ESS? I tried several times to learn emacs but I have not get it yet. I can understand ESS as an editor, but is there a project view in ESS? what's the efficient ways to set…
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What's so inferior about inferior-lisp?

As I've started learning about lisp, emacs, and ess (Emacs Speaks Statistics), I've come across this concept of inferior-this-or-that. For instance, there's an inferior-ess-mode, inferior-lisp, and Inferior Emacs Lisp Mode. In all these cases, it…
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Structuring a Statistical Analysis with R Using Emacs/ESS

I am looking for a way to structure my statistical analysis. I currently use Emacs/ESS and the analysis file turned out quite long. I have started to put parts of the code into sourceable functions in a separate file, but still... I would like to…
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ESS to call different installations of R

I am not sure if this has already been answered here on stack-overflow. I had Emacs-ESS installed on my Unix machine and when ever I start up emacs, particular version of R gets loaded. I now have some new R packages that I wanted to test before…
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R: ess emacs, jump to function implementation/source

Ctrl-c Ctrl-v lets me view documentation for a function at cursor's position. But what key sequence for me to view the source code of the function (i.e like the F2 key in Rstudio)? I do not want to use the debug function yet.
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Emacs, R, Org-mode: how to enable automatic switch to ESS-mode within R code blocks?

When using R code chunks in an .Rnw document, the emacs buffer automatically detects that the cursor is within a code chunk (i.e. within <<>> and @), and switches to ESS-mode -- this is very valuable because one can get ESS-based code-formatting…
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Could Emacs Speaks Statistics loop through a R for loop like a real debugger?

I am a happy user of ESS for coding and debugging R code. I have found a elusive bug recently deeply inside several for loops and ifs structures. Is there any way of having ESS selectively travel the if/else structures or loop for all the values in…
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Force stop or halt on error

I was wondering if anyone knew of a good way to get R or ESS to stop executing the rest of the code beyond the point at which an error occurs if I am evaluating a region or buffer (I've only found the opposite request in the help archives). I was…
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Capture last output as an R object

Possible Duplicate: How to assign the result of the previous expression to a variable in R? I'm working with R in ESS and just made the stupid mistake of running a long running function without assigning the result to a variable. So, it just…
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Pop-up windows in R & Emacs

I am using ESS in order to stay in Emacs when working with R. Whenever I create a plot a new pop-up appears with the graph. This new window seems to be a part of the R process called inside Emacs. As such the new window is not part of the…
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Getting the contents of a library interactively in R

Is there an equivalent of dir function (python) in R? When I load a library in R like - library(vrtest) I want to know all the functions that are in that library. In Python, dir(vrtest) would be a list of all attributes of vrtest. I guess in…
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ess-rdired: I get this error "no ESS process is associated with this buffer now"

To use ess-rdired to browse objects, I followed the ESS manual and added the following to my .emacs: (autoload 'ess-rdired "ess-rdired" "View *R* objects in a dired-like buffer." t) When I do M-x ess-rdired, a buffer listing the objects in your…
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When running R, how to exit from Emacs-ESS gracefully?

Sometimes, right after I submit a computation-intensive run to R in ESS, my whole screen freezes. When that happens, none of the Emacs commands work (I use laptop running XP). My crude solution is to press Control-Alt-Del, go to the Task Manager,…
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Fix undesirable EMACS tabbing behavior in ESS/Stata

ESS/Stata mode in emacs incorrectly indents lines that follow lines ending in operators. It seems to incorrectly interpret these lines as multiline commands. For example: gen foo = 1 /* generate another variable */ gen bar = 1 The line "gen bar…
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How do I rename R sessions in ESS?

I previously asked how to switch R sessions in ESS, and the use of C-x C-s has sped up my workflow greatly. However, if I have multiple R sessions (even as few as 3), it can be difficult to remember which on is R, which is R:2, and which is R:3. Is…
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