ANNOUNCING ESS
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Annoucing the release of ESS-5.1.4 (Emacs Speaks Statistics).
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(New: improvements to SAS support, Splus 5 support, Splus 4.5 under Microsoft Windows support)

ESS is an Emacs package which provides a standard interface between statistical programs and statistical processes.  It is intended to provide assistance for interactive statistical programming and data analysis, and was is based on and extends the capabilities of S-mode. The code is freely available but is not in the public domain.  It is distributed under the GNU GPL.  Please read the file COPYING for more information about the license.

ESS grew out of the desire to extend S-mode-4.8.  The current set of developers desired support for: - XEmacs - R - S4 - Microsoft Windows

In addition, with new modes being developed for R, Stata, and SAS, it was felt a unifying interface and framework for the user interface, would benefit both the user and the developer, by helping both groups conform to standard Emacs usage.  The end result is an increase in efficiency for statistical programming and data analysis, over the usual tools.

We are grateful to David M. Smith , the previous developer (for S-mode 3.x and 4.x), as well as to the initial developers of S-mode, Doug Bates, Ed Kademan and Frank Ritter.

And to help remove any further confusion:

The name is __ESS__.  Not ESS-mode.

Thank you :-).

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