How To Install emacs-common-ess on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-common-ess in Fedora 36. emacs-common-ess is Emacs Speaks Statistics add-on package for Emacs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-common-ess on Fedora 36.

What is `emacs-common-ess`

Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) is an add-on package for GNU Emacs. It provides Emacs-based front ends for popular statistics packages. ESS provides an intelligent, consistent interface between the user and the software. ESS interfaces with S-PLUS, R, SAS, BUGS and other statistical analysis packages under the Unix, Microsoft Windows, and Apple Mac OS operating systems. ESS is a package for the GNU Emacs whose features ESS uses to streamline the creation and use of statistical software. ESS knows the syntax and grammar of statistical analysis packages and provides consistent display and editing features based on that knowledge. ESS assists in interactive and batch execution of statements written in these statistical analysis languages. This package contains the files common to GNU Emacs Emacs Speaks Statistics package.

We can use yum or dnf to install emacs-common-ess on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install emacs-common-ess.

Install emacs-common-ess on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install emacs-common-ess using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install emacs-common-ess

Install emacs-common-ess on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install emacs-common-ess using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install emacs-common-ess

How To Uninstall emacs-common-ess on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the emacs-common-ess package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove emacs-common-ess

emacs-common-ess Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/ANNOUNCE
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/LDA
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/LDA/README
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/LDA/ex1.nw
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/R-ESS-bugs.R
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/README
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/VERSION
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/fontlock-test
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/fontlock-test/baseball.sas
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/fontlock-test/elem.sas
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/fontlock-test/runif.Rcxx
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/fontlock-test/testing.sas
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/other
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/other/config.guess
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/other/pkg1
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/other/pkg1/DESCRIPTION
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/other/pkg1/NAMESPACE
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/other/pkg1/R
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/other/pkg1/R/D1tr.R
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/other/pkg1/man
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/other/pkg1/man/D1tr.Rd
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-ess/other/sje-ess-notes.txt
/usr/share/info/ess.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/emacs-common-ess
/usr/share/licenses/emacs-common-ess/COPYING

References

emacs-common-ess website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-common-ess on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).