Customizing and extending Emacs Speaks Statistics

Goals

• Showing how to customize Emacs and ESS as an advanced R IDE
• Helping newcomers and beginners to have a more friendly and efficient setup
• Helping users migrating from other IDEs to keep behaviours and habits they are used to
• Showcasing some other Emacs packages that play well with ESS and may improve your coding experience

Ressources

Tutorial

• Raw org file
• Tutorial in PDF format
• Tutorial as beamer slides (superceded by the above PDF tutorial)
• Video tutorial

Emacs initialization file

A minimal init file for some possible customization of ESS is also provided. It should be adapted (in particular for yasnippet) according to your own setup and habits.