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3 @setfilename readme.info
4 @settitle ESS --- Emacs Speaks Statistics
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7 @node General Information, , (dir), (dir)
8 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
9 @chapter General Information: README
12 This is the README file for the distribution of ESS version
15 The first release of the 5.2 series. ESS is a GNU Emacs and XEmacs mode
16 for interactive statistical programming and data analysis. Languages
17 supported: the S family (S 3/4, S-PLUS 3/4/5/6, and R), SAS, XLispStat,
18 Stata and BUGS. Installation help can be found in sections for both
19 Unix and Windows. ESS grew out of the desire for bug fixes and
20 extensions to S-mode and SAS-mode as well as a consistent union of their
21 features in one package.
23 The current development team is led by Martin Maechler since August
24 2004. Former project leader A.J. (Tony) Rossini
25 (@email{rossini@@blindglobe.net}) did the initial port to
26 XEmacs and has been the primary coder. Martin Maechler
27 (@email{maechler@@stat.math.ethz.ch}) and Kurt Hornik
28 (@email{hornik@@ci.tuwien.ac.at}) have assisted with S-PLUS, S4, R, and
29 XLispStat. Stephen Eglen (@email{stephen@@gnu.org}) has worked mostly
30 on R support. Richard M. Heiberger (@email{rmh@@temple.edu}) has
31 assisted with S-PLUS and S4 development for Windows. Richard and
32 Rodney A. Sparapani (@email{rsparapa@@mcw.edu}) have done much of the work
33 implementing interactive SAS (iESS[SAS]) and batch SAS (ESS[SAS]) support.
35 We are grateful to the previous developers of S-mode (Doug Bates, Ed Kademan,
36 Frank Ritter, David M. Smith), SAS-mode (Tom Cook) and Stata-mode (Thomas
38 @c The name is ESS. Not ESS-mode.
53 @node License, New Features, General Information, General Information
54 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
59 @node New Features, Current Features, License, General Information
60 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
65 @node Current Features, Stability, New Features, General Information
66 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
67 @section Current Features
69 @include currfeat.texi
71 @node Stability, Requirements, Current Features, General Information
72 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
75 @include stabilty.texi
77 @node Requirements, Latest Version, Stability, General Information
78 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
81 @include requires.texi
83 @node Latest Version, Installation, Requirements, General Information
84 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
85 @section Getting the Latest Version
88 @c NOTE: The above INCLUDES inst_svn.texi (Subversion/SVN Installation)
90 @c vvvvvvvvvvvv node name *must* match the one in ./ess.texi !
91 @node Installation, Reporting Bugs, Latest Version, General Information
92 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
93 @section Installation (from tar file)
95 @include inst_tar.texi
97 @node Reporting Bugs, Mailing Lists, Installation, General Information
98 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
99 @section Reporting Bugs
101 @include bugrept.texi
103 @node Mailing Lists, Authors, Reporting Bugs, General Information
104 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
105 @section Mailing Lists
107 @include mailing.texi
109 @node Authors, , Mailing Lists, General Information
110 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
113 @include authors.texi
116 @c Remember to delete these lines before creating the info file.
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124 @comment TeX-master: "readme.texi"