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Emacs Speaks Statistics
What is ESS? Welcome to the home page of the ESS projectEmacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) is an add-on package for GNU Emacs. It is designed to support editing of scripts and interaction with various statistical analysis programs such as R, S-Plus, SAS, Stata and OpenBUGS/JAGS.
It is designed to support editing of scripts and interaction with various statistical analysis programs such as R, S-Plus, SAS, Stata and OpenBUGS/JAGS. The rationale for developing ESS is that most statistical analysis systems provide a more or less sophisticated graphical user interface (GUI). Therefore, emacs editors and the ESS package provide the following major features: Support for various operating systems Examples: Linux, Unix, Mac OS X and MS Windows Working environment based on emacs Examples: File Manager (Dired), File Transfer Client/Telnet Client (Tramp), Multiple Clipboards (registers), Bookmarks, Abbreviations, and many others Support for various statistical analysis languages Examples: R, S-Plus, SAS, Stata and OpenBUGS/JAGS Examples: Keybindings, Abbreviations, Syntax highlighting, Code formatting, Commenting, Submitting scripts, Displaying results and Searching documentation
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