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General Information: README
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This is the README file for the distribution of ESS version
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ESS is a GNU Emacs and XEmacs mode for interactive statistical programming and data analysis.  Languages supported: the S family (S, S-PLUS and R), SAS, BUGS/JAGS and Stata.  ESS grew out of the desire for bug fixes and extensions to S-mode and SAS-mode as well as a consistent union of their features in one package.

Installation instructions are provided in sections for both Unix and Windows; see below.

The current development team is led by Martin Maechler since August 2004. Former project leader A.J. (Tony) Rossini (rossini@blindglobe.net) did the initial port to XEmacs and has been the primary coder.  Martin Maechler (maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch) and Kurt Hornik (Kurt.Hornik@R-project.org) have assisted with the S family and XLispStat.  Stephen Eglen (stephen@gnu.org) has worked mostly on R support.  Richard M. Heiberger (rmh@temple.edu) has assisted with S/S-PLUS development for Windows.  Richard and Rodney A. Sparapani (rsparapa@mcw.edu) have done much of the work improving SAS batch and interactive support.  Rodney has also extended ESS to support BUGS/JAGS and has an interest in improving Stata support.

We are grateful to the previous developers of S-mode (Doug Bates, Ed Kademan, Frank Ritter, David M. Smith), SAS-mode (Tom Cook) and Stata-mode (Thomas Lumley).

Table of Contents

  * License

  * Stability

  * Requirements

  * Latest Version

  * Installation

  * Starting an ESS Process

  * New Features

  * Current Features

  * Reporting Bugs

  * Mailing Lists

  * Authors

License
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Stability
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Requirements
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Getting the Latest Version
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Installation
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Starting an ESS process
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To start an Sl session on Unix or on Windows when you use the Cygwin bash shell, simply type M-x S RET.

To start an Sl session on Windows when you use the MSDOS prompt shell, simply type M-x S+6-msdos RET.

Current Features
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New Features
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Reporting Bugs
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Mailing Lists
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Authors
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