Getting (X)Emacs and ESS

To get ESS to work you first need a working Emacs or XEmacs. If you wish to get XEmacs then you can download it from http://www.xemacs.org/Download/index.html. XEmacs has more graphical user interface than Emacs, and is a bit easier to install (therefore I will not discuss it here). To get Emacs, Dr. Claus Dethlefsen^6.1 from the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Aalborg University has a very comprehensive web page explaining how to get it and install it, with L^ATEXand other plug-ins. For completeness I will extract out the section that gets ESS to work. The most important step is obviously to download Emacs, you can get it by going to http://ftp.sunsite.dk/pub/gnu/windows/emacs/latest/, it is recommended that you download the fullbin. If you wish to get AucTEX- the L^ATEXplug-in, and Ispell - the spell checker, please refer to Claus's page for the detailed instructions. You will also need to download ESS, which is available from CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org/other-software.html) under Software -> Other. You may wish to download the zip file if you are unfamiliar with the tar.gz files.