Re: [ESS] Error installing on Mac

2024-03-08 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
> Liz Hare via ESS-help > on Thu, 7 Mar 2024 09:49:12 -0500 writes: > Liz Hare via ESS-help > on Thu, 7 Mar 2024 09:49:12 -0500 writes: > Hi all, > I'm updating ESS by installing from source. I uncommented the MacOS related lines from makeconfig, but I get this

Re: [ESS] Following up, success! [was RE: [R-win] Difficulty installing R packages under Windows 11 / Cygwin]

2024-01-05 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
> Robert Lerche via ESS-help > on Wed, 3 Jan 2024 22:58:00 + writes: > Yes and thanks for responding. That is I think exactly what's needed and I have taken a shot at implementing it. [I'm glad my previous attached patch got filtered, I was a bit careless.] Here's a

Re: [ESS] [External] [R-win] Difficulty installing R packages under Windows 11 / Cygwin

2023-12-02 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
As R core and ESS core I still have never tried to install ESS under Windows. Just last week installed not only R for Windows (binary from CRAN) + Rtools43 (by Tomas, from CRAN) and was able to install my Rmpfr package (C code + external lib) *from source* -- again thanks to Tomas Kalibera's

Re: [ESS] How can one tell rlang not to mess up R session in ESS ?

2023-11-14 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
> Dirk Eddelbuettel via ESS-help > on Mon, 13 Nov 2023 10:00:26 -0600 writes: > Casual searching at the rlang repo doesn't reveal anything so pardon me for > asking here but what is a simple way to tell rlang to NOT do fancy pants > color error backtraces? At least

Re: [ESS] ESS code-folding?

2023-08-17 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
> Westerland, Maggie via ESS-help > on Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:15:39 + writes: > Ah, I see how this is working now. This looks like a suitable solution for me! > Thanks all, > Maggie > -- > Maggie Westerland, MA > Statistical Programmer > BUMC, Dept of

Re: [ESS] New Emacs Modified distributions - now double the pleasure!

2023-08-16 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
> Vincent Goulet via ESS-help > on Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:24:42 + writes: > Hi folks, > Back in April 2022 [*], I asked here if there was still interest in my distributions of Emacs that ship with ESS and AUCTeX ready to go. Since the response was generally positive, and

Re: [ESS] ESS "taking over" {[Rd] New behavior when running script in package directory?}

2023-06-22 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
> Mikael Jagan > on Wed, 21 Jun 2023 12:41:02 -0400 writes: > Surely this behaviour is just a case of ESS being "too clever", sourcing > *.R files in special way when it detects that a file belongs to a package > (loading dependencies automatically, etc.)? > The

Re: [ESS] A discrepancy between elpa version and ubuntu/mint version

2022-11-20 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 7:29 PM Ottorino via ESS-help wrote: > > Hi all, > > I think I've found a discrepancy > > in file > > /home/user/.emacs.d/elpa/ess-20221108.1714/ess-r-mode.el > > at lines 264-270 > > I can find the variable > > ess-r-mode-map > > while in > >

Re: [ESS] Tab completion for CamelCase

2022-11-08 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
> Naresh Gurbuxani via ESS-help > on Mon, 7 Nov 2022 17:54:58 + writes: > My ess setup on mac works well with tab completion of CamelCase variable names. However, on Windows, tab completes variable names with all lowercase letters. So it does give me complete variable

Re: [ESS] Advice on setting up ESS to edit and knit Rmarkdown files

2021-09-22 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
> Lionel Henry via ESS-help > on Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:15:42 +0200 writes: > We'd love to do a release but ESS is not in a good place > right now. Definitely. The reason is that there have been too many bugs introduced with the new features, so we could/should not release.

Re: [ESS] ESS M-x R failing in a Windows installation

2021-03-15 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
> Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help > on Wed, 10 Mar 2021 15:40:05 + writes: > Hi Jeremie: As you say, Windows installs do depend on the > user’s preferences. However, in ancient ESS (circa 2004), > we coded around this by going to the Windows registry. > However, I

Re: [ESS] Next steps [OT] Best Practices Emacs / ESS Mini-Webinars

2021-01-28 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
> Liz Hare via ESS-help writes: > Hello, > Going back to our earlier conversation about ensuring the accessibility > of Mini Webinars, I'm able to share MiR's Accessibility Workbook > (attached). > This is of particular interest to blind R users because the RStudio IDE > is

Re: [ESS] Emacs can find R-devel and R-newest, but not R-4.0.x

2020-11-26 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
> Colin Baxter via ESS-help > on Thu, 26 Nov 2020 06:14:45 + writes: > Tyler Smith via ESS-help writes: >> This was fixed in ESS 19.04. If you install/update ESS >> from Melpa, you should get a recent version that includes >> this fix. > ??? I have pulled

Re: [ESS] Latest Emacs distributions out!

2020-09-18 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
> Vincent Goulet via ESS-help > on Thu, 17 Sep 2020 16:34:54 -0400 writes: > Hi all, With some delay, I'm glad to announce that my > "modified" Emacs distributions for Windows and macOS based > off GNU Emacs 27.1 are out: > Windows: >

Re: [ESS] ess-eval-region Does Not Echo Highlighted Code Into the R Buffer?

2020-05-21 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
I've also had 'nowait as my personal default for many years.I find it also more appropriate when showing ESS to others, e.g. when teaching etc. Very importantly in practice: Keep in mind that prefixing i.e. C-u <...> switches to visible (momentarily) which is also handy when demo-ing,

Re: [ESS] Anyone tried Emacs 27.1 pretest with Windows 10 ?

2020-05-06 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
> Stephen Eglen via ESS-help > on Wed, 06 May 2020 12:23:23 +0100 writes: > Good idea Phil. Also, Kevin -- does it crash with earlier > versions of R? R 4.0.0 just came out so wondering if that > is an additional degree of freedom for bugs to creep in. > Stephen

Re: [ESS] R 4.0

2020-04-18 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
> Vitalie Spinu via ESS-help > on Fri, 17 Apr 2020 14:32:50 +0200 writes: > I think we could stick to capital `R-`. A few false positives, if any, > are probably harmless. > Vitalie But on that most-used (non-)operating system, lowercase and uppercase are mostly

Re: [ESS] Building 18.10-1 from source

2018-11-01 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
> Nicky Chorley via ESS-help > on Wed, 31 Oct 2018 11:08:39 + writes: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 10:19, Vitalie Spinu > wrote: >> This should have been fixed in the master. > Thanks Vitalie. Do you happen to know when this will make > its way into a release? I

[ESS] ESS 18.10-1 patch released

2018-10-23 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
'ess-eval-region-or-line-visibly-and-step' ('C-RET') which behave as the old versions of 'ess-eval-line-and-step' and 'ess-eval-region-or-line-and-step'. In the name of the ESS core team, Martin Maechler >>>>> Martin Maechler via ESS-help >>>>> on Sat, 20

[ESS] ESS 18.10 released

2018-10-20 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
Dear ESS Users it's a pleasure to announce the release of ESS 18.10 (2018 October) of a few minutes ago in the name of the ESS core team. There have been many changes and improvements since the last official release 17.11 (in last November) For the complete list of (documented) new

[ESS] Upcoming ESS release 18.10 -- please (beta)test prerelease

2018-10-10 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
Dear ESS users, The ESS core team is planning a new release of ESS, 18.10, before the end of October, possibly in 10 days already. Whereas some of you may be using the always latest somewhat unstable development of ESS from MELPA or directly via regular pull from github, many will use released

[ESS] Upcoming ESS release 18.10 -- please (beta)test prerelease

2018-10-10 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
Dear ESS users, The ESS core team is planning a new release of ESS, 18.10, before the end of October, possibly in 10 days already. Whereas some of you may be using the always latest somewhat unstable development of ESS from MELPA or directly via regular pull from github, many will use released

Re: [ESS] Stopping "Save workspace image?" prompt

2018-09-23 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 9:20 AM Jeremie Juste via ESS-help wrote: > > > Hello, > > Have a look at the variable inferior-R-args. (C-h v > inferior-R-args). You can customize it to include --no-save. > in principle putting (setq inferior-R-args "--no-save") in your .emacs > file should do it. Yes,