Now and then

A young man unhappily single with good reason. For as long as he can remember, his romances travel the same track. First, the shock of love with its vertiginous rush and the sweet fire in his spine. Mad mutual devotion follows for weeks. Then the first alarming note: the trickle becomes a torrent and the torrent a cataract. He is lazy; he is thoughtless; his taste in restaurants is banal and his housekeeping habits a horror. When he can’t stand it any longer, he breaks off the relationship. Blessed silence and relief descend. As the weeks drag by into months, his newfound ease slides over into loneliness. The next woman he dates revels herself (after a brief time) to be the doppelgänger of his recently departed ex. Without a woman, his life is empty; with her, its misery. -- Gravity’s Incarnation in The General Theory of Love, p 117, 2000.

The easiest way to install ESS

If you know what "R" is, you probably are using EMACS and ESS plugin.

Installing EMACS is quite simple; however, ESS is a bit tricky to install. Anyway, after I read this post from the R-help mailing list, life is a lot easier. Thank you very much Schwartz.

That being said, it is easy enough to run ESS using the tarball, which is the current version as compared to the RPM. Un-tar it someplace and then add:

(load "PATH/TO/ess-5.3.11/lisp/ess-site")

in your ~/.emacs file so that it gets loaded. 'ess-site' actually

points to the lisp file 'ess-site.el' which will be in the 'lisp'

folder in the un-tarred file tree.

BTW, there is an ESS specific list:

https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

and a newly formatted web site here with docs:

http://ess.r-project.org/index.php?Section=documentation&subSection=manuals

HTH,

Marc Schwartz

ํYou can get ESS tar ball from here http://ess.r-project.org/index.php?Section=download