ESS Quick Reference

This section was originally put together by Dr. Ross Ihaka. For the completeness of this chapter I have added it in. Emacs commands are accompanied either by simultaneously holding down the Control key (indicated by C-) or the Alt key (indicated by M-). The abbreviation TAB means the Tab key and RET means the Return key.

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Essential Commands 

M-x S 		           start Splus 


M-x R 		           start R 


C-c C-q 		           quit from Splus or R 


C-c C-v 		           open a help window 


TAB 		           object name completion 


C-c C-u 		           kill present command 


C-c C-w 		           kill last word of present command 




Command History 

M-p 		           scroll backward through command history 


M-n 		           scroll forward through command history 


M-r 		           retrieve a previous command by pattern 


M-s 		           retrieve a later command by pattern 




Session Transcript 

C-c C-e 		           jump to the end of the transcript 


C-c C-p 		           jump to previous command in transcript 


C-c C-n 		           jump to next command in transcript 


RET 		           copy command to the input line and execute 


C-c RET 		           copy command to the input line, don't execute 


M-RET 		           execute command under cursor, skip to next 


C-c C-o 		           execute command under cursor, skip to next 


C-x C-w 		           save the current transcript as ...


C-x C-s 		           save the current transcript 




Editing Objects 

C-c C-d 		           dump an object into a buffer 


C-c C-l 		           load the contents of a buffer 


TAB 		           indent the line under the cursor 


M-C-q M-C-q 		       indent the expression under the cursor 




Sending Code to ESS 

C-c C-j 		           send current line to the ESS process 


C-c M-j 		           as above, then return to the process buffer 


C-c C-f 		           send the current function to the ESS process 


C-c M-f 		           as above, then return to the process buffer 


C-c C-r 		           send the selected region to the ESS process 


C-c M-r 		           as above, then return to the process buffer 


C-c C-b 		           send the edit buffer to the ESS process 


C-c M-b 		           as above, then return to the process buffer 


C-c C-n 		           send line to the ESS process, step to next line