Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) in MacPorts

Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) is an Emacs package for interacting with, and programming for, statistical packages such as R, Stata, SAS, etc. MacPorts is a repository of open source software for OS X. MacPorts is very similar to the apt-get system on Debian, making it easy to install software packages from the repository and keep them up to date.

While there is a very nice Emacs port (emacs-app) in the MacPorts repository, until today there was no port for ESS. So, recently I submitted a Portfile for it. This morning it was added to the official repository. So, you can now install ESS from MacPorts by simply typing the following:

sudo port install ess

If you installed Emacs using the emacs-app port (as opposed to emacs), then you’ll want to install the emacs_app variant of ess instead:

sudo port install ess +emacs_app