Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) is an add-on package for GNU Emacs. It is designed to support editing of scripts and interaction with statistical analysis programs: mainly R and SAS. All are welcome to try ESS for free. But advanced users who regularly work with statistical analysis scripts will likely benefit from it the most.

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.

Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) provides an intelligent, consistent interface between the user and the software. ESS interfaces with R, SAS, S-PLUS, BUGS/JAGS and other statistical analysis packages on GNU/Linux, other Unix-like systems such as macOS, and Microsoft Windows.

本文章内容只适合于爱折腾，同时正在入门 emacs 和 R 语言的朋友。 本文拟包含以下内容： 为什么使用 Emacs + ESS 而不使用 RStudio？ 为什么折腾 Emacs＋ESS？ Emacs强大的功能我就不赘述了。 用Emacs来写Rmd并不代表我不使用RStudio。 原因是我想在写R代码和编写Rmd文档时能够利用emacs的高效操作、高扩展性和超强的自定义能力。 shell使用的eshell而不是系统终端或者iTerm，matlab用的matlab-mode调用matlab命令行而不是matlab界面本身，python …

Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) provides an intelligent, consistent interface between the user and the software. ESS interfaces with SAS, S-PLUS, R, BUGS/JAGS and other statistical analysis packages on Unix, Linux and Microsoft Windows.

This article explains how to start Using R with Emacs and ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics). The first section of this article provides links to resources on how to install Emacs on various platforms and how to enable it to start writing code in R with the ESS package.

ESS - Emacs Speaks Statistics¶ As Statistician, coding in R and writing report is what I do most of the day. I have been though a long way of searching the perfect editor for me, tried Rstudio, SublimeText, TextMate and settled down happily with ESS/Emacs, for both coding and writing.

2014年4月23日 · 本文介绍了如何利用Emacs和ESS编辑器来规范R代码，包括ESS的安装、代码规范遵循Hadley Wickham的建议、使用ESS进行代码和注释缩进、运算符书写规范、函数说明的书写，以及org-struct和etags的设置。

2014年3月4日 · 本文介绍了如何在Windows系统中利用集成好ESS、AUCTeX、Aspell等插件的Emacs进行R编程，通过傻瓜化安装步骤简化配置过程，使R用户能够更加高效地在Windows平台上进行统计分析和编程。

ESS is a GNU Emacs package for interactive statistical programming and data analysis. Languages supported: the S family (S, S-PLUS and R), SAS, BUGS/JAGS and Stata. ESS grew out of the desire for bug fixes and extensions to S-mode and SAS-mode as well as a consistent union of their features in one package.