Hi Gang: I’m not directly answering the question because I don’t use Rmd (but I do use Rnw all of the time). And, just to react to a few of Dirk’s and Tyler’s comments. Over the last few years, we have moved away from having to set up features with .emacs/etc. as much as possible. Generally, this stuff should just work out-of-the-box. For example, there was a time where I was struggling with Rnw and couldn’t figure out what was wrong by changing settings/debugging/etc. But, after an upgrade, everything just worked. If you think you have really identified a bug, then please make a reproducible example and posted on git as an issue. In my view, this last post is related to our new release model.
This model has not been communicated to my recollection but is de facto. We had planned to release 1:2 times per year. However, that largely stopped about 2018. Now, it is pretty much just grabbing from git where most of these issues have been worked out, i.e., the repo is supposed to be in a continual working state (although there may be occasional mishaps just like anything else). Part of the reason for moving to git (unintentionally) is that our copyrights have mostly been attributed to the FSF. However, there are a few pieces that are inconveniently absent. Similarly, there are a few key pieces that oldsters like me still want that are found in obsolete. Not directly related, but a similar concern is that there is still the issue of polymode being needed but not part of ESS which you have to get from git (don’t get me stared julia-mode!). So, lots of excuses, pick your favorite. But the upshot is that git is as convenient as it gets. And we are not a company like RStudio so this FOSS setup works for us as developers and hopefully it still serves the users well. I hope that helps from a philosophical point of view. My students are unconvinced and use RStudio but I am not allowed to fail them for their merely youthful indiscretions ;o) -- Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics Chair ISBA Section on Biostatistics and Pharmaceutical Statistics Institute for Health and Equity, Division of Biostatistics Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help