ESS - version 5.5

How can I get ESS?

Here you can download ESS and related resources

ESS is implemented in the platform-independent programming language Emacs Lisp (eLisp) which is the extension language of Emacs. To run ESS in Emacs you have to first download the compressed eLisp source files and install them according to the following instructions. As different file compression formats are used in different operating systems both <.tgz> (Unix/Linux) and <.zip> (MS Windows) file formats are provided.

ESS - Latest Released Version

• Download ESS Version 5.5 (2009-10-07) [zip] [tgz]

You can find the current and older released versions in the archive.

ESS for GNU/Linux

On some distributions of GNU/Linux ESS can be installed as an offical RPM package via the package manager. For other distributions the RPM packages are provided by private users. Please compare the version number of those packages with the latest release.

• Fedora, ESS, official: <emacs-ess>, <xemacs-ess>
• OpenSUSE, private, in directory openSUSE.../noarch/, (D. Steuer)
• Debian or Debian-derived Linux distributions such as Ubuntu have an uptodate package "ess" since 2008, i.e., from Debian "lenny" and "sid" and Ubuntu "intrepid" (= 8.10) on.

ESS for Windows

• GNU Emacs and ESS - All-in-one installation file for MS Windows, by Vincent Goulet, [Web]

ESS - Current Developmental Version

The current development branch of ESS, which has not been tested, is available as eLisp source code via the version control system Subversion. To download it to a local path a Subversion client has to be installed on your local system:

• SVN Branch: https://svn.r-project.org/ESS/
• SVN Command: % svn checkout https://svn.r-project.org/ESS/trunk <local-path>

Instructions on how to retrieve ESS in particular or how to work with Subversion in general can be found in the following documents:

• ESS - Emacs Speaks Statistics - Manual, Section 1.4, p. 13 [pdf]
  
  Rossini, A. J., Heiberger, R. M., Hornik, K., Maechler, M., Sparapani, R. A. and Eglen, S. J.
• Version Control with Subversion for Subversion 1.4 [pdf]
  
  Collins-Sussman, B., Fitzpatrick, B. W., Pilato, C. M.

ESS - Related packages

The following Emacs package which are not part of ESS can support your work with ESS and R.

• r-utils [eLisp]