ESS -- Emacs Speaks Statistics

ESS version 5.1.20

(Documentation $Revision: 5.20 $ $Date: 2002/01/20 06:29:19 $).

A.J. Rossini, R.M. Heiberger, K. Hornik, M. Maechler, and R. Sparapani (Formerly: Doug Bates, Ed Kademan, Frank Ritter and David Smith).

A programming and inferior mode package for (X)Emacs intended for interacting with statistical software packages (primarily S(plus), R, XLisp-Stat, and SAS), for data analysis and statistical software development.

1. Introduction to ESS		Overview of features provided by this package
2. Starting the ESS process
3. Interacting with the ESS process		Interacting with the process buffer
4. Editing S functions		How to create or edit S objects or functions
5. Reading help files in ESS
6. Manipulating saved transcript files
7. Other features of ESS
8. Bugs and Bug Reporting, Mailing Lists
9. Help, arranged by Statistical Package
10. Help, arranged by Operating System
A. Installing ESS on your system
A.1 Unix installation		Installing ESS on your Unix system
A.2 Microsoft Windows installation		Installing ESS on your MS Windows system
B. Customizing ESS
Key (Character) Index
Command and Function Index
Concept Index
Variable and command index

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Introduction to ESS

1.1 Why should I use ESS?
1.2 New features in ESS
1.3 Authors of and contributors to ESS
1.4 Getting the latest version of ESS
1.5 How to read this manual

Starting the ESS process

2.1 Running more than one ESS process
2.2 Changing the startup actions

Interacting with the ESS process

3.1 Entering commands and fixing mistakes
3.2 Completion of object names
3.3 Completion details		Advanced completion concepts
3.4 Manipulating the transcript
3.5 Command History
3.6 References to historical commands
3.8 Is the Statistical Process running under ESS?		S language options()$STERM
3.7 Hot keys for common commands
3.9 Other commands provided by inferior-ESS

Manipulating the transcript

3.4.1 Manipulating the output from the last command
3.4.2 Viewing more historic commands
3.4.3 Re-submitting commands from the transcript
3.4.4 Keeping a record of your S session

Editing S functions

4.1 Creating or modifying S objects		Edit objects in a specialized buffer
4.2 Loading source files into the ESS process
4.3 Detecting errors in source files
4.4 Sending code to the ESS process
4.5 Indenting and formatting S code
4.6 Commands for motion, completion and more
4.7 Maintaining S source files
4.8 Names and locations of dump files

Manipulating saved transcript files

6.1 Resubmitting commands from the transcript file
6.2 Cleaning transcript files

Other features of ESS

7.1 Syntactic highlighting of buffers
7.2 Using graphics with ESS
7.3 Object Completion

Using graphics with ESS

7.2.1 Using ESS with the printer() driver		The printer() graphics driver
7.2.2 Using ESS with windowing devices		The X11() (and other X-windows based) driver

Bugs and Bug Reporting, Mailing Lists

8.1 Bugs
8.2 Reporting Bugs
8.3 Mailing Lists

Help, arranged by Statistical Package

9.1 Using S-PLUS 3.x, 5.x
9.2 Using S-PLUS 4.x
9.3 Using R
9.4 Using SAS
9.5 Using XLispStat
9.6 Using Stata

Help, arranged by Operating System

10.1 Help for Unix
10.2 Help for Microsoft

Installing ESS on your system

A.3 Other variables you may need to change

Customizing ESS

B.1 Variables for customization
B.2 Customizing ESS with hooks
B.3 Changing the default ESS keybindings

Variables for customization

B.1.1 Variables for starting ESS
B.1.2 Variables for dump files
B.1.3 Variables controlling indentation
B.1.4 Variables controlling interaction with the ESS process