gmane.emacs.ess.general

Automating launch of R session and splitting into 2 buffers

Frank E Harrell Jr — 2008-09-07T16:06:09

I am looking for a good way to specify something in .emacs for Emacs such that when I have a .r source file opened, hitting Esc R will split the window into two buffers and start the R process in the lower buffer. I find myself always doing Cntl-X-2 and then having to put foo.r back into the upper buffer. Tony Rossini outlined the following: (defun myR () (interactive) (if (= (major-mode 'current-buffer) 'R-mode) (split-window)) (R) (put-cursor-other-window)) which would be invoked with M-x myR. If anyone knows how to complete that code including the spellings of the correct function calls, or has another idea I'd appreciate hearing about it. I have already put (setq ess-ask-for-ess-directory nil) in my .emacs to bypass the selection of the working directory. Thanks Frank

ess stata won't start

XIANG AO — 2008-09-04T20:58:19

*>* --text follows this line-- *>* *>* I was able to run ess stata before, but it stopped working since *>* yesterday. It repports: "/usr/bin/env: stata: No such file or *>* directory", and "Error in post-command-hook: (void-variable *>* infereior-ess-font-lock-keywords)... *>* *>* Please help... Thank you so much! *>* *>* Emacs : GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9) *>* of 2008-05-02 on king, modified by Ubuntu *>* Package: ess-mode 5.3.0 *>* *>* current state: *>* ============== *>* (setq *>* ess-language "STA" *>* ess-dialect "Stata" *>* ess-ask-for-ess-directory t *>* ess-ask-about-transfile nil *>* ess-directory nil *>* ess-keep-dump-files "always" *>* ess-source-directory "/tmp/" *>* ) *>* [ess-site.el]: ess-customize-alist=nil *>* [ess-site.el _2_]: ess-customize-alist=nil *>* (S): ess-s-versions-create making M-x defuns for (R): ess-r-versions-create *>* making M-x defuns for (STA): ess-dialect=nil , buf=*scratch* *>* (inferior-ess 0): ess-start-args=TERM=emacs stata *>* ess-setq-vars-default 0: ess-language=Initial, -dialect=nil, buf=nil, *>* comint..echoes=nil, comint..sender=comint-simple-send *>* ess-setq-vars-default 1: ess-language=STA, -dialect=Stata, buf=nil, *>* comint..echoes=nil, comint..sender=comint-simple-send *>* (inf-ess 1): lang=STA, dialect=Stata, tmp-dialect=Stata, buf=*scratch* *>* (inf-ess 1.1): procname=Stata temp-dialect=Stata, buf-name=*Stata* *>* (inferior-ess) Method #3 start=/home/xao/ buf=*Stata* *>* (ess-setq-vars-LOCAL): language=STA, dialect=Stata, buf=nil, *>* comint..echoes=nil, comint..sender=comint-simple-send *>* (inf-ess 2.1): ess-language=STA, ess-dialect=Stata buf=*Stata* *>* (inf-ess 2.2): start args = TERM=emacs stata , inf-ess-start-args=TERM=emacs *>* stata *>* (inf-ess finish [STA(Stata), env(nil,nil)] *>* (ess-multi 0): inf-ess-start-args=TERM=emacs stata , comint-..echoes=nil *>* (i-ess 1): buf=*Stata*, lang=STA, comint..echo=nil, *>* comint..sender=comint-simple-send, *>* (i-ess 2): buf=*Stata*, lang=STA, comint..echo=t, *>* comint..sender=inferior-ess-input-sender, *>* (ess-setq-vars-LOCAL): language=STA, dialect=Stata, buf=nil, *>* comint..echoes=t, comint..sender=inferior-ess-input-sender *>* (i-ess 3): curr-buf=*Stata*, comint..echo=t, *>* comint..sender=inferior-ess-input-sender, *>* (ess-multi post inf-ess: start-args=TERM=emacs stata , comint-echoes=t *>* (ess-multi 1): start-args=TERM=emacs stata *>* Making Process...Buf *Stata*, Proc Stata, Prog env *>* Start File=nil, Args= TERM=emacs stata . *>* * Is stata still in your PATH? If you open a *shell* buffer and type stata does it start? Yes. I opened a shell within emacs and start stata just fine... [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ ESS-help< at >stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

Bug in ess-swv-PDF on Windows

Kevin Wright — 2008-09-03T21:08:18

ess-swv-PDF fails on Windows because it tries to launch a bash shell in order to open a pdf reader. Replacing this line: (shell-command (concat pdfviewer " " namestem ".pdf &"))) with (w32-shell-execute "open" (concat namestem ".pdf") nil 1)) fixes the problem for me. Obviously there needs to be some kind of (if-i-am-running-mswindows () ()) check here too. Sincerely, Kevin Wright ______________________________________________ ESS-help< at >stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

ess stata won't start

XIANG AO — 2008-09-03T16:20:35

Subject: ess-mode 5.3.0; ess stata won't start --text follows this line-- I was able to run ess stata before, but it stopped working since yesterday. It repports: "/usr/bin/env: stata: No such file or directory", and "Error in post-command-hook: (void-variable infereior-ess-font-lock-keywords)... Please help... Thank you so much! Emacs : GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9) of 2008-05-02 on king, modified by Ubuntu Package: ess-mode 5.3.0 current state: ============== (setq ess-language "STA" ess-dialect "Stata" ess-ask-for-ess-directory t ess-ask-about-transfile nil ess-directory nil ess-keep-dump-files "always" ess-source-directory "/tmp/" ) [ess-site.el]: ess-customize-alist=nil [ess-site.el _2_]: ess-customize-alist=nil (S): ess-s-versions-create making M-x defuns for (R): ess-r-versions-create making M-x defuns for (STA): ess-dialect=nil , buf=*scratch* (inferior-ess 0): ess-start-args=TERM=emacs stata ess-setq-vars-default 0: ess-language=Initial, -dialect=nil, buf=nil, comint..echoes=nil, comint..sender=comint-simple-send ess-setq-vars-default 1: ess-language=STA, -dialect=Stata, buf=nil, comint..echoes=nil, comint..sender=comint-simple-send (inf-ess 1): lang=STA, dialect=Stata, tmp-dialect=Stata, buf=*scratch* (inf-ess 1.1): procname=Stata temp-dialect=Stata, buf-name=*Stata* (inferior-ess) Method #3 start=/home/xao/ buf=*Stata* (ess-setq-vars-LOCAL): language=STA, dialect=Stata, buf=nil, comint..echoes=nil, comint..sender=comint-simple-send (inf-ess 2.1): ess-language=STA, ess-dialect=Stata buf=*Stata* (inf-ess 2.2): start args = TERM=emacs stata , inf-ess-start-args=TERM=emacs stata (inf-ess finish [STA(Stata), env(nil,nil)] (ess-multi 0): inf-ess-start-args=TERM=emacs stata , comint-..echoes=nil (i-ess 1): buf=*Stata*, lang=STA, comint..echo=nil, comint..sender=comint-simple-send, (i-ess 2): buf=*Stata*, lang=STA, comint..echo=t, comint..sender=inferior-ess-input-sender, (ess-setq-vars-LOCAL): language=STA, dialect=Stata, buf=nil, comint..echoes=t, comint..sender=inferior-ess-input-sender (i-ess 3): curr-buf=*Stata*, comint..echo=t, comint..sender=inferior-ess-input-sender, (ess-multi post inf-ess: start-args=TERM=emacs stata , comint-echoes=t (ess-multi 1): start-args=TERM=emacs stata Making Process...Buf *Stata*, Proc Stata, Prog env Start File=nil, Args= TERM=emacs stata . [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ ESS-help< at >stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

temporarely leaving ess-remote session...

Stefan Petersson — 2008-09-03T18:44:18

ng, I'm using an ssh session with ess-remote to run R on a dedicated machine on our network. Since my computer is a laptop, and I sometimes start tedious batch jobs on the R-Server, I was wondering if it is possible to leave an ess-remote/ssh process open on the server side, unplug my laptop, and plug it in the next day and pick up the ess-remote/ssh process where I left it? ______________________________________________ ESS-help< at >stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

Thanks for adding the ess-swv-* functions

Douglas Bates — 2008-09-01T14:49:18

My heartfelt thanks to whomever added the ess-swv-* functions to ESS - you have saved me a great deal to time and energy. As can be imagined, many of the Sweave documents that I write require loading the Matrix and lme4 packages when running Sweave on them and it takes some time to load the lme4 package in a fresh R process. The first time that I ran M-x ess-swv-weave on one of my Sweave documents I thought I had done something wrong because it completed so quickly. It took me a while to realize that ess-swv-weave used my existing ESS R process which already has the Matrix and lme4 packages loaded. It was a sort of "Well, duh!" moment for me as I though, "why didn't I think of that?". I'm very glad that someone else did think of using the existing process. ______________________________________________ ESS-help< at >stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

Using ssh from within emacs 22 to connect to another computerand run ess-remote

Douglas Bates — 2008-08-27T15:23:23

I have now spent several hours trying to find out how to do something that I feel should have taken me just a few minutes and I still have no idea how to accomplish this. My computer at work is quarantined behind a firewall because I run Ubuntu on it and not the approved and supported version of RHEL 5. The only way I can connect to other computers inside the department is through ssh and preferably with kerberos authentication. If I want to connect from a terminal I should run ssh -K -Y desk00.stat.wisc.edu Emacs 22 for Ubuntu has tramp and telnet as part of the system and the tramp documentation tells you all about connections with ssh to edit files on remote machines. Similarly ESS describes using ess-remote. However, I feel that I am missing out on something terribly obvious because after a few hours of reading documentation and source code I still have not found out what I can do to create an ssh connection to another machine. The ESS documentation lists an ftp site for an ancient elisp file ssh.el but I can't believe that this is a) necessary and b) up to date with current capabilities in telnet.el and tramp.el. Is it really true that the only way to get an ssh connection to a remote machine from within emacs 22 is to load a 10-year old elisp file? It is bizarre that there is a supported telnet function and no supported ssh function. I feel like a new R user who is convinced that you can do something in R but just cannot find the necessary function to accomplish it. Is it as simple as modifying the variable telnet-host-properties? The documentation seems to indicate that I could somehow define an "element" of that variable but in that grand elisp tradition there is absolutely no indication of how I would do that. ______________________________________________ ESS-help< at >stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

strange behaviour of tab completion

tyler — 2008-08-26T17:08:28

Hi, I'm getting some strange behaviour in the inferior process buffer when I try and use tab completion. It sometimes works just as you'd expect, i.e., if I have an object called erica in my workspace, er produces erica. But erica is a dataframe, with several columns that start with 's'. erica$s doesn't give me any completions, but rather the minibuffer is filled with ten lines of lisp code, beginning with "(quote string-less-p)))" This happens when I try and get the arguments for a function, built-in R commands, or objects I've created in my workspace, but not consistently. I get the same behaviour in a script buffer. A quick check reveals that I can get completion of erica (my dataframe) but not the columns of the dataframe, read.table, cmdscale, but not for plot or points. Trying again, I see that read.t gives me the completion, but read.table gives me the funny mini-buffer message. Any idea what might be the cause of this? I'm using ESS version 5.3.8, svn revision 3944, with ess-eldoc turned on, emacs 23.0.60.1, Debian Testing. Thanks, Tyler

the R help system

Kasper Daniel Hansen — 2008-08-07T17:37:37

I have two things which are either enhancement requests or just me not doing the right thing. Both are related to the R help system. My examples below are for a S4 class from package Biobase, but it should be generally applicable. 1) S4 classes. If I do C-c C-v and try to find the help page on the class ExpressionSet, I can get the help page if I type "ExpressionSet- class", but not via TAB completion. If I (from the R command prompt) type ?"ExpressionSet-class" I get a normal help page buffer, but if I do class?ExpressionSet, the help is printed in the R buffer instead of its own window. 2) conflicting help pages. If I have two packages, both with a help page linking to the same term (an excellent example right now is the Bioconductor package "affy" and the help page for image), I used to get an annoying tcltk window popping up. It was annoying and slow, but worked. Recently I put the following in my Rprofile options(menu.graphics = FALSE) If I now do ?image from an R session, the little selection menu is not displayed at the R prompt, but rather in a separate read-only help buffer. If I try to do C-c C-v image, the same happens. Kasper ______________________________________________ ESS-help< at >stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

I can not use install.packages

xiaopeng hu — 2008-08-07T02:26:22

I use ess and emacs under windows xp. I use M-x R to start R in ESS. when I input install.packages("MASS"), only display --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---, then nothing happens. Why? Have you ever happened to this questions? Thanks [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ ESS-help< at >stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

bug: exclude version control stuff for stable versions

Patrick Drechsler — 2008-08-07T00:46:25

Hi, trying to update to ess version 5.3.8 and including it in "mysitelisp" worked fine. Until I updated my version control repository.. REQUEST: PLEASE refrain from including .svn directories (or other VC stuff such as .git, .hg, etc) in official RELEASES. The VC stuff is fine in development. Cheers, Patrick ______________________________________________ ESS-help< at >stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

Language setting for ESS help buffer

Kevin Wright — 2008-08-05T17:54:01

My setup: GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600), ESS 5.3.8, Windows XP Sometimes in my ESS help buffer I see: \221Character indices\222 instead of 'Character indices'. Is this normal? Is there a setting that controls this? I experimented with MULE settings, but that did not seem to have any effect. Thanks for any tips, Kevin ______________________________________________ ESS-help< at >stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

German umlaute in ESS, Emacs & R

2008-07-31T09:17:38

Hi list, I use GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-03-26 on Windows XP and ESS Version 5.3.7, both downloaded from http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/, and R version 2.7.1 for Windows. My problem is that Emacs cannot handle german umlaute as R variable names: Error: unexpected input in "\201" This does not occur in RGui.exe. I think this is more an emacs than ess problem, but maybe there are any suggestions. Thanks, Sven ______________________________________________ ESS-help< at >stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

transient mark mode

William Knebel — 2008-07-29T17:49:34

Our group uses emacs+ess to run R on a mac osx server (10.5.4). I have an unusual issue between two ESS settings. We standardly set transient-mark-mode t When I use the above setting with ess-eval-visibly-p nil the text in emacs get highlighted appropriately use C-x space and gets submitted properly using C-x c C-x r but the text in the emacs buffer satys highlighted as though it was never submitted. Is this an interaction between these two options. I would to be able to use these together. We are using R-2.7.1 and ess 5.3.7. Bill ______________________________________________ ESS-help< at >stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

SAS + SUDAAN + ESS

Ken — 2008-07-29T18:04:13

Dear ESS experts, I am trying to run SUDAAN inside my SAS code. Without using ESS, I can use the following command to run SUDAAN correctly in the interactive SAS session: sas -path /usr/local/SUDAAN_90x/SAS-Callable & However, I cannot make it work in the SAS session inside XEmacs. Here are my settings: ;; ESS for SAS ;; (setq inferior-SAS-program-name "/usr/local/bin/sas9") ;'sh default (setq ess-sas-submit-pre-command "nohup") ;'sh default (setq ess-sas-submit-post-command "-rsasuser -path /usr/local/SUDAAN_90x/SAS-Callable &") ;'sh example (setq-default ess-sas-submit-command "/usr/local/bin/sas9") The SAS works as usual, but it could not find the SUDAAN procedures. I believe the -path options doesn't work as I expected. Could anyone help me with this please? Many thanks. Sincerely, Ken _________________________________________________________________ [[elided Hotmail spam]] ______________________________________________ ESS-help< at >stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

font-lock problems with sweave

David Whiting — 2008-07-29T10:17:10

Hi, I'm getting font-lock problems with sweave documents where some R code is causing the subsequent latex chunks to all appear in the same font (no highlighting). It seems to be to do with the number of times the dollar sign appears. An odd number of occurances in the R code chunk and all subsequent latex chunks are not highlighted; an even number of occurances and the subsequent latex chunks are fine. I am not sure what I might have done to cause this. Im using the latest ESS from subversion. Emacs 21.4.1 (ubuntu dapper and ubuntu hardy). I'm also using auctex. I don't really understand font-locking and don't recall mucking about with it. Any ideas how I can track this down and stamp on it? Thanks. David

using ess-emacs to create a script-R.workspace project

Mark Kimpel — 2008-07-28T18:42:47

I'd like to create some sort of data-structure that contains an R workspace, the script that generated it (not command history but a source file), and the sessionInfo() for that session. I'd like to create this from within ESS-emacs and then be able to load everything with one command. This would help both with reproducibility of results and with resuming a session. Is this possible? Wise? Another, better way? Thanks, Mark

submit region to R process on stdin

Dan Davison — 2008-07-28T15:15:19

Dear ESS list, I'm trying to write an elisp function which will transform the current region into a data frame in R, and call a function with that data frame as an argument. The motivation was that on the emacs org-mode (highly recommended!) mailing list, there was a request to create plots from org-mode's ASCII tables. So far I've come up with the following, which assumes that region contains csv-format tabular data and passes it to Rscript on stdin. (defun r-function-on-region (&optional R-function) "Convert region to data frame in R and apply a function to this data frame" (interactive) (unless R-function (set 'R-function "plot")) (shell-command-on-region (point-min) (point-max) (concat "Rscript -e 'X11() ; " R-function "(read.csv(\"stdin\")) ; system(\"sleep 60\")'"))) My first question is, should I be using ESS for this rather than Rscript? How hard would it be to write an equivalent function, which passes region to a running R process, which would convert it to a data frame and pass that data frame to an arbitrary function (defaulting to 'plot'). ess-r-call-fun-with-region-as-input or something. Could anybody give some pointers on how that would be done? Secondly, the above defun clearly has some problems, which I'd like to ask for help on (but I admit aren't strictly related to ESS). I've added the 'sleep 60' command to make the plot stay around. However that means that one has to use C-g to get control back to the emacs process. I tried adding an & to background the shell-command, but that results in Error in read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote, : no lines available in input Calls: plot -> read.csv -> read.table Execution halted Does anyone have some suggestions for how this should be done? Is there some way to get Rscript to pop up an (X11) window and then go away, leaving the window? Thanks, Dan ______________________________________________ ESS-help< at >stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

ESS 5.3.8 released

Martin Maechler — 2008-07-28T06:46:35

Dear ESS users, I've just uploaded a new release of ESS, 5.3.8, to our download pagehttp://stat.ethz.ch/ESS/downloads/ess/ There are not too many changes with respect to 5.3.7, but still... the most important one will affect R users where - now R is started (or re-started) automatically when the user wants to evaluate R code. then we have - Better support for JAGS (as alternative to BUGS) - SAS command settings For a bit more detail, search forward to 'New Features in 5.3.8' below. For the ESS Development Team ('ESS-core'), Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich ------------------ The ESS Developers proudly announce the release of ESS 5.3.8 Emacs Speaks Statistics (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 and XEmacs text editors 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. ESS is freely available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Please read the file COPYING which comes with the distribution, for more information about the license. For more detailed information, please read the README files that come with ESS. 1.1 Getting the Latest Version ============================== The latest released version of ESS is always available on the web at: ESS web page (http://ess.r-project.org) or StatLib (http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/ESS/) The latest development version of ESS is available via `https://svn.R-project.org/ESS/', the ESS Subversion repository. If you have a Subversion client (see `http://subversion.tigris.org/'), you can download the sources using: % svn checkout https://svn.r-project.org/ESS/trunk PATH which will put the ESS files into directory PATH. Later, within that directory, `svn update' will bring that directory up to date. Windows-based tools such as TortoiseSVN are also available for downloading the files. Alternatively, you can browse the sources with a web browser at: ESS SVN site (https://svn.r-project.org/ESS/trunk). However, please use a subversion client instead to minimize the load when retrieving. If you remove other versions of ESS from your emacs load-path, you can then use the development version by adding the following to .emacs: (load "/path/to/ess-svn/lisp/ess-site.el") Note that https is required, and that the SSL certificate for the Subversion server of the R project is Certificate information: - Hostname: svn.r-project.org - Valid: from Jul 16 08:10:01 2004 GMT until Jul 14 08:10:01 2014 GMT - Issuer: Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, CH - Fingerprint: c9:5d:eb:f9:f2:56:d1:04:ba:44:61:f8:64:6b:d9:33:3f:93:6e:ad (currently, there is no "trusted certificate"). You can accept this certificate permanently and will not be asked about it anymore. 1.2 Current Features ==================== * Languages Supported: * S family (S 3/4, S-PLUS 3.x/4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x, and R) * SAS * BUGS/JAGS * Stata * XLispStat including Arc and ViSta * Editing source code (S family, SAS, BUGS/JAGS, XLispStat) * Syntactic indentation and highlighting of source code * Partial evaluation of code * Loading and error-checking of code * Source code revision maintenance * Batch execution (SAS, BUGS/JAGS) * Use of imenu to provide links to appropriate functions * Interacting with the process (S family, SAS, XLispStat) * Command-line editing * Searchable Command history * Command-line completion of S family object names and file names * Quick access to object lists and search lists * Transcript recording * Interface to the help system * Transcript manipulation (S family, XLispStat) * Recording and saving transcript files * Manipulating and editing saved transcripts * Re-evaluating commands from transcript files * Help File Editing (R) * Syntactic indentation and highlighting of source code. * Sending Examples to running ESS process. * Previewing 1.3 Requirements ================ ESS has been tested with * R >=0.49 * S-PLUS 3.3-4, 4.5, 2000, 5.0-1, 6.0-2, 7.0, 8.0 * S4 * SAS >=6.12 * BUGS 0.5, 0.6 * JAGS 1.0 * Stata >=6.0 (command line only) on the following platforms * Linux/x86 (all) * Solaris (all) * MS Windows 98/NT/2000/XP (R, S-PLUS, SAS interactive only, and BUGS) * Apple Mac OS X 10.4-5 (R, JAGS, Stata) with the following versions of emacs * GNU Emacs 20.3-7, 21.1, 21.3-4, 22.1 * XEmacs 21.4.0-8, 21.4.9-13(1), 21.4.14-15, 21.4.17-21 (betas not supported, but 21.5.23+ may work) ---------- Footnotes ---------- (1) require the files.el patch to revert-buffer for the Local Variables updating problem 1.4 Stability ============= Versions 5.3.x are meant to be release-quality versions. While some new features are being introduced, we are cleaning up and improving the interface. We know about some remaining documentation inconsistencies. Patches or suggested fixes with bug reports are much appreciated! 1.5 Mailing List ================ There is a mailing list for discussions and announcements relating to ESS. Join the list by sending an e-mail with "subscribe ess-help" (or "help") in the body to stat.math.ethz.ch>; contributions to the list may be mailed to stat.math.ethz.ch>. Rest assured, this is a fairly low-volume mailing list. The purposes of the mailing list include * helping users of ESS to get along with it. * discussing aspects of using ESS on Emacs and XEmacs. * suggestions for improvements. * announcements of new releases of ESS. * posting small patches to ESS. 1.6 Reporting Bugs ================== Please send bug reports, suggestions etc. to stat.math.ethz.ch> The easiest way to do this is within Emacs by typing `M-x ess-submit-bug-report' This also gives the maintainers valuable information about your installation which may help us to identify or even fix the bug. If Emacs reports an error, backtraces can help us debug the problem. Type "M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET". Then run the command that causes the error and you should see a *Backtrace* buffer containing debug information; send us that buffer. Note that comments, suggestions, words of praise and large cash donations are also more than welcome. 1.7 Authors =========== * A.J. Rossini (mailto:blindglobe< at >gmail.com) * Richard M. Heiberger (mailto:rmh< at >temple.edu) * Kurt Hornik (mailto:Kurt.Hornik< at >R-project.org) * Martin Maechler (mailto:maechler< at >stat.math.ethz.ch) * Rodney A. Sparapani (mailto:rsparapa< at >mcw.edu) * Stephen Eglen (mailto:stephen< at >gnu.org) 1.8 License =========== ESS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. ESS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License in the file COPYING in the same directory as this file for more details. 1.9 New Features ================ Changes/New Features in 5.3.8: * ESS[JAGS]: more separation from ESS[BUGS] (as much as is currently planned); now `C-c C-c' on an empty `.jmd' creates a template as it should; symbolic links are created for CODA output so BOA is happy: from `index.txt' to `.ind' and `chain#.txt' to `#.out' * ESS[SAS]: buffer-local `ess-sas-submit-command' and `ess-sas-submit-command-options' now recognized by `ess-sas-submit-region' * ESS[S]: When trying to evaluate code in an S language buffer and there is no associated process, now start R automatically instead of signalling an error. Also, restart R if there is an associated process which is not running. However, do not start R just via the "electric" `(' (`ess-r-args-auto-show'). * ESS[S]: For (one-line) functions withOUT '{ .. }' bodys, the end of function is now correctly found more often. This notably improves `C-c C-c' (`ess-eval-function-or-paragraph-and-step'). * ESS[JAGS]: cleanup/re-organization of elisp code; symbolic links for CODA output are now only created by the new JAGS `system' command in version 1.0.3; specify whether this command is available via `ess-jags-system'; if not present, then no links are created so that the `*shell*' buffer does not become unresponsive during the batch run Changes/New Features in 5.3.7: * ESS: `ess-default-style' now *is* customizable, i.e., changing its value in `~/.emacs' now does have the desired effect. * ESS: `ess-font-lock-mode' is a new variable (default: t) which controls whether font-locking is enabled in ESS buffers. * ESS[R]: for XEmacs on Windows; another tweak to find R versions * ESS[SAS]: font-locking updated for ODS and SAS Bayesian Procedures; a more consistent handling of SAS options by `ess-sas-submit-command-options' which is buffer-local; portable snooze for MS Windows via customize-able `ess-sleep-for' (floats welcome); Xpdf now supported as a PDF viewer * ESS[Rnw]: now also works with "emacs -nw" and Emacs 22. * ESS[JAGS]: now requires JAGS 1.0 (see the new ESS for JAGS help section for more information): both need work; suggestions welcome * ESS[R]: [TAB] completion now uses the R-internal completion mechanism (for R >= 2.5.0). * ESS[R] ([S]): interpretation of "_" as assignment has been removed in `ess-continued-statement-p' for R and S. * several internal code cleanups. * ESS[R]: An experimental version of a new command `Rgui' on MS Windows to send lines directly from emacs to `Rgui' is available in file `lisp/essd-rgui.el'. Preliminary documentation is in file `doc/rgui-doc.txt'. Changes/New Features in 5.3.6: * ESS: for XEmacs, using "gnuclient" (without a "-q") works for things like fix() after M-x gnuserv-start has been done. * ESS[R]: M-x R-newest should now work in more situations on MS Windows, e.g., when R has been installed in a non-default "ProgramFiles" directory tree. In these cases, there's no need to specify the name (and full path) of the R program anymore. * ESS[R]: For XEmacs, startup (with new tooltip code) works again. Changes/New Features in 5.3.5: * ESS[R] a new defun is available, `M-x R-newest', which will start the newest version of R that it can find on your system. * ESS[R] add Sven Hartenstein's "R function arguments tips" functionality, via new file `../lisp/essd-r-args.el'. Note that this includes an "electric "("" behavior inside `R-mode' which is _active by default_ and can be customized via `ess-r-args-electric-paren'; i.e., use `(setq ess-r-args-electric-paren nil)' to turn it off. Further, `ess-r-args-show-as' allows to switch to the "tooltip" mode. * ESS: functions `ess-get-pdf-viewer' and *-ps-viewer; built on new customizable variables `ess-pdf-viewer-pref' and `ess-ps-viewer-pref'; currently used in `ess-swv-PDF' and `*-PS'. * ESS[R] Improved `ess-swv-PDF' to run pdf viewer only if pdflatex was ok * ESS[R] Improved `ess-swv-weave' to start R automatically if none is running. * ESS: Do no longer ask _which_ ESS process to use if there is only one. Changes/New Features in 5.3.4: * ESS[R] now better work with options(error=recover); and the new default of CHM help files on windows. * ESS[R] some more cleanup in the "sweave" functions * miscellaneous fixes Changes/New Features in 5.3.3: * ESS[S] fix buglet (5.3.2 only) which left command prompt in "execute buffer" and hence help files. * new customizable variable `ess-display-buffer-reuse-frames' set to true (which changes default behavior) such that execution or help *frames* are reused. Changes/New Features in 5.3.2: * Classic BUGS now supported by `(require 'essd-bugs)' with ESS[BUGS] and JAGS by `(require 'essd-jags)' with ESS[JAGS]. But, only one of them can be used at a time since they don't play nice together. Also, `C-c C-c' is now bound to the function `ess-bugs-next-action' (`F12' has been retired). And finally, note that `essl-bug.el' is deprecated and the replacement is `essl-bugs.el'. * ESS[R] Improved some of the "Sweave-make" functions (yet scarcely documented) in `ess-swv.el'. * ESS[S] No longer mess with .Last.value (nor in other "languages"). Changes/New Features in 5.3.1: * See the docs for 2 ways to install ESS for XEmacs 1. by uncommenting the XEmacs part of Section 1 of `Makeconf' and performing `make install' 2. by unpacking either `ess-5.3.1.tgz' or `ess-5.3.1.zip' into `PREFIX/lib/xemacs/site-packages' on unix or `PREFIX\XEmacs\site-packages' on windows * ESS[R]: fixed bugs so that Rterm.exe can be found by XEmacs * ESS[S]: `ess-toggle-S-assign-key' is slightly changed; in particular, the default `ess-assign-key' is now `C-x ='. * ESS[R]: `M-x R-site-search' is a new (slightly experimental) utility similar to R's `RSiteSearch(..)' but with the advantage of using Emacs' preferred browser, see `browse-url-browser-function' Changes/New Features in 5.3.0: * ESS[BUGS]: sanely re-format statistical output, `.bog', from scientific notation to numbers rounded with 4 decimal places with `M-x ess-bugs-sci-round-to-4-dp'. * The keys for navigating among section headings in help buffers worked, but only for one language per session; they should now work for multiple languages. (They were also broken on Windows machines.) * ESS[S] long standing buglets in the internal logic for loading lisp code on Windows. Particularly fixed behavior in help mode with S-plus GUI. * New variable, `ess-use-inferior-program-name-in-buffer-name', which enables using the executable name instead of the dialect name for R. Feature request. * ESS[S] `ess-execute-screen-options' now also works correctly when there is more than one window *side-by-side* in the same frame and runs in the correct buffer also when there is more than one S buffer. * iESS[S] new functions `ess-eval-paragraph-and-step' and `ess-eval-function-or-paragraph-and-step' are bound to keys `C-c C-p' and `C-c C-c' respectively and to the menu in ESS-mode; also bound in the help mode (for evaluating examples). * ESS[S] new function `ess-toggle-S-assign-key' allows to assign the " <- " insertion to an arbitrary key. ______________________________________________ ESS-help< at >stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

Highlighting mor R functions

Judith Flores — 2008-07-15T23:21:28

Hello, I copied some of the settings of the .emacs file to try to enhance the highlighting of more R functions, but it seems that some of the arguments or lisp functions were not recognized. I was wondering if there's a simple lisp code to obtain more highlighted functions. Thank you, Judith ______________________________________________ ESS-help< at >stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

Process SAS is not running... error on Ubuntu

Dale Steele — 2008-07-10T21:24:28

I have installed SAS 9.1.3 and ESS on Ubuntu 8.04 (installed via 'wajig install http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/ess/ess_5.3.8~svn3902-1_all.deb'). When I attempt to invoke SAS from emacs using M-x SAS, I get a "Process SAS is not running" message from emacs. I found the section in the manual regarding making 'ess-sas-sh-command' executable. However, I've been unable to find where 'ess-sas-sh-command' is installed on my system. Thanks. --Dale ______________________________________________ ESS-help< at >stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help