ESS is most likely to work with current/recent versions of the following statistical packages: R/S-PLUS, SAS, Stata, OpenBUGS and JAGS. ESS supports current/recent versions of GNU Emacs and XEmacs. Most notably, the GNU Emacs 22 series and XEmacs 21.4.14 or higher (beta/pre-release versions are NOT SUPPORTED). To build the PDF documentation, you will need a version of TeX Live or texinfo that includes texi2dvi (BEWARE: recent TeX Live, and some texinfo RPMs, do NOT include texi2dvi). @c ESS has been tested with @c @itemize @bullet @c @item R >=0.49 @c @item S-PLUS 3.3-4, 4.5, 2000, 5.0-1, 6.0-2, 7.0, 8.0 @c @item S4 @c @item SAS >=9.1 @c @item BUGS 0.5, 0.6 @c @item JAGS 1.0 @c @item Stata >=10.0 (command line only) @c @c is anyone still using this? @item XLispStat >=3.50 @c @end itemize @c on the following platforms @c @itemize @bullet @c @item Linux/x86 (all but BUGS) @c @item Solaris/x86 (all but BUGS and S-PLUS) @c @c cannot confirm this right now @item SGI (all) @c @item MS Windows 98/NT/2000/XP (R, S-PLUS, SAS interactive only, and BUGS) @c @item Apple Mac OS X 10.4-5 (R, JAGS, Stata) @c @end itemize @c with the following versions of emacs @c @itemize @bullet @c @item GNU Emacs 20.3-7, 21.1, 21.3-4, 22.1 @c @item XEmacs 21.4.0-8, 21.4.9-13@footnote{ @c require the files.el patch to revert-buffer for the Local Variables @c updating problem}, 21.4.14-15, 21.4.17-22 (betas not supported, but 21.5.23+ may work) @c @c @item GNU Emacs <20.3 and XEmacs <21.0@footnote{These releases of emacs are no @c @c longer supported, so an upgrade is recommended if you plan to use ESS. @c @c If you have GNU Emacs 19.29, see @xref{Unix installation}. Also, note @c @c that the `custom' library bundled with Emacs 19.34 is too _old_, its API is @c @c incompatible with the `new custom' bundled with recent Emacsen. @c @c The `new custom' for Emacs 19.34 is available for download @c @c @uref{ftp://ftp.dina.kvl.dk/pub/Staff/Per.Abrahamsen/custom/custom-1.9962.tar.gz, here}.} @c @end itemize