In section 6.2 Should I run R from within Emacs?
“Yes, definitely.” This led me to install emacs, and to install ess. However, I use a windows environment (mswindows2000) and I had some difficulty installing, linking and launching these applications. After several hours I had launched emacs but had failed to link it with either ess or r, partly because of platform problems. (As a dedicated windows user, I am reluctant to tinker with autoexec.bat and the like). I spent several hours doing this, and in hindsight, I decided to uninstall emacs and ess. I would prefer if the faq could be changed to say: “This is optional.” And perhaps some comment could be made about platforms. I found the documentation for emacs and ess to be a bit of a hair-pulling exercise. NOT one of the “plug and play” applications that MS windows is so fond of! By the way, I like the r gui very much. I used splus for some time as a PhD student, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that my scripts run in r!! I intend to use r from now onwards, and to encourage my c
