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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 3/4, S-PLUS 3/4/5/6/7, and R), SAS, XLispStat, Stata and BUGS.  Installation help can be found in sections for both Unix and Windows.  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.

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 S-PLUS, S4, R, and XLispStat.  Stephen Eglen (stephen@gnu.org) has worked mostly on R support.  Richard M. Heiberger (rmh@temple.edu) has assisted with S-PLUS and S4 development for Windows.  Richard and Rodney A. Sparapani (rsparapa@mcw.edu) have done much of the work implementing interactive SAS ([SAS]) and batch SAS ([SAS]) 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).

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