Aquamacs

I have been using Aquamacs as my default editor and the ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) as the default environment for all my R projects. Today I came across a nice tip about using Aquamacs and ESS to work on a remote R session. The original post by Matthew Keller can be found from here.

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Aquamacs is a distribution of the well-known and powerful Emacs text editor. Developed by David Reitter, it looks just like a Mac app and runs like one. However, it retains the power of GNU Emacs. In short, it brings you the power of Emacs as well as the configurability but with an easier to use int.

Aquamacs is a Mac-like distribution of the powerful Emacs text editor. It looks and behaves like a Mac program - even though it's still GNU Emacs with all the extensibility that millions have come.
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Aquamacs 3.4 is based on Emacs 25.3 and the latest versions of many packages. It is compatible with macOS 10.12 Sierra and comes with some critical improvements.
Aquamacs is an Emacs text editor for macOS.It is based on GNU Emacs, currently tracking the GNU Emacs version 25.3 branch.Although GNU Emacs has had native UI support on macOS using the Cocoa API since version 23, Aquamacs modifies the user interface to conform with macOS standards in favor of Emacs standards.

Steps to run Aquamacs and ESS to talk to a remote R session

1. Open a terminal in Aquamacs (M-x shell);

2. In the terminal type: ssh -XC name@server (-XC for data compression and X11 forwarding);

3. Start R in the terminal;

4. M-x ess-remote (let Aquamacs ESS talk to remote R session)

5. options(device=’x11′) (in R command line, but not needed if your server is running Linux).