Re: [ESS] Prevent ESS From Writing .Rhistory

2016-08-26 Thread Martin Maechler
> Laurent Gatto > on Fri, 26 Aug 2016 06:12:04 +0100 writes: > On 26 August 2016 02:52, RICHARD M. HEIBERGER wrote: >> yes i am sure >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Aug 25, 2016, at 17:00, Stephen Eglen wrote: >>> >>> Yes, the dots ap

[ESS] "no longer seeing the help files" (was '[R] Adjusting axis labels ..')

2016-10-15 Thread Martin Maechler
that *did* solve the above problem for me. BTW: We plan to release ESS 16.10 in ca. 10 days, so would be happy if many of you started to "beta test" it. --> see another e-mail with a different subject Martin Maechler ETH Zurich __ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

[ESS] ESS 16.10-beta pre-release

2016-10-15 Thread Martin Maechler
bly *new* problems should you see such. Martin Maechler ETH Zurich __ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

[ESS] ESS 16.10 released

2016-10-22 Thread Martin Maechler
e (not for the base packages yet). For the complete list of (documented) new features and bug fixes, read the following (from ANNOUNCE) to the end. In the name of the ESS core team, with thanks to all helpers, notably by github pull requests, Martin -- Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich 1

Re: [ESS] ESS 16.10 released

2016-10-24 Thread Martin Maechler
> Vincent Goulet > on Mon, 24 Oct 2016 10:35:15 -0400 writes: > To all: my Emacs distributions are updated: > macOS: http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/emacs/mac/ > Windows: http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/emacs/windows/ Excellent. Thank you very much, Vincent, for providin

Re: [ESS] wget/curl and DOWNLOAD make variable customization ...

2016-11-01 Thread Martin Maechler
> Sparapani, Rodney > on Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:22:46 + writes: > I haven’t tried it recently. But, at one point, you could > build ESS with DOWNLOAD = true to circumvent the > julia-mode.el download and build ESS without it. Of > course, you would have to get ESS f

Re: [ESS] trouble with interactive SAS mode in ESS 13.09-1

2016-11-11 Thread Martin Maechler
trouble you've mentioned, I'm pretty sure that people on this list who do have SAS may be much more motivated to help you. Best regards, Martin Maechler >>>>> Boylan, Ross >>>>> on Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:18:28 + writes: > I don't seem able

Re: [ESS] how to edit openbugs model file?

2016-12-03 Thread Martin Maechler
"file local variables" in emacs.. Emacs manuals and also Google "Emacs file local variables" should help. Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Simon Bonner wrote: > Hi Paul, > > An easy way to do this is to rename your file as model.R

Re: [ESS] Curly brace indentation

2016-12-08 Thread Martin Maechler
> Jan T Kim via ESS-help > on Tue, 6 Dec 2016 01:11:20 + writes: > Hello All, > since some time, I get the following indentation behaviour: If I type > f <- function(x) > { > return(x * x); > } > > this gets indented as > > f <- function(x) > { >

Re: [ESS] Can't load libraries after upgrading to R 3.3.2

2016-12-13 Thread Martin Maechler
I'm sure this is unrelated to ESS. You did post to R-help, too, right? I suspect the problem is entirely a Mx OS X problem. The error message points to /usr/local/lib/libjags.4.dylibdoes that file exist ? On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Gonçalo Ferraz wrote: > Hi, > > I just upgraded R

Re: [ESS] file completion R script buffer not auto completing

2016-12-15 Thread Martin Maechler
> Stephen Sefick > on Wed, 14 Dec 2016 11:45:49 -0600 writes: > Hello: > Long time R user; new ESS user. Thank you all so much for this wonderful > IDE. I am having problems with the ESS and the R script buffer. > I would like to be able to use an autocomplete file na

Re: [ESS] ESS documentation needs update

2016-12-23 Thread Martin Maechler
ou have loaded ESS, C-h v ess-style-alist not only shows you its content, but even contains quite a bit more documentation about the meaning of the different styles' parts (i.e. variables). > Thank you for the great ESS! you're wel

Re: [ESS] feature request : completion of available packages name

2017-01-03 Thread Martin Maechler
d of completion.. notably as emacs / ESS have quite a few different completion possibilities, as we have been told recently here. Martin Maechler ETH Zurich > > Thanks ! > Samuel Barreto > __ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

Re: [ESS] feature request : completion of available packages name

2017-01-04 Thread Martin Maechler
ide completion work by Deepayan Sarkar!! Martin > Le mer. 4 janv. 2017 à 08:09, Deepayan Sarkar a > écrit : >> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:52 AM, Martin Maechler >> wrote: >> > On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Samuel BARRETO >> >

Re: [ESS] ess-16.10 / Error 2

2017-01-09 Thread Martin Maechler
ug defvar) (doc-string 3)) +;; Can't use backquote here, it's too early in the bootstrap. +(list 'progn (list 'defvar var val docstring) + (list 'make-variable-buffer-local (list 'quote var) + + + (provide 'ess-compat) I hope this helps furt

Re: [ESS] ess-16.10 / Error 2

2017-01-10 Thread Martin Maechler
> Eric Lindblad via ESS-help > on Mon, 9 Jan 2017 21:36:40 + writes: > Dear Martin Mächler, > System: Slackware Linux (version 14.0) > CPUs: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @1.60GHz > GNU Emacs 24.2.1 >> Your emacs version 24.2 (2012) is relatively old. >> The

Re: [ESS] FW: Help in compiling ESS

2017-02-20 Thread Martin Maechler
> Sparapani, Rodney > on Wed, 15 Feb 2017 16:59:44 + writes: > Hi Paola: > That is correct. You can’t get around a missing feature > by just not compiling ;o) yes, indeed. {and the other advice, "do not compile it", is actually not such a good advice: If you c

Re: [ESS] Ess in emacs on mac

2017-02-27 Thread Martin Maechler
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Vitalie Spinu wrote: > > I would agree with that. I think it's pretty safe to make that silent. I don't think that safety is the issue here. Rather "transparency". If ESS changes relatively important options() in R, as an R user I'd rather like to notice. So

Re: [ESS] Ever consider changing indentation on #?

2017-05-15 Thread Martin Maechler
> Paul Johnson > on Thu, 4 May 2017 21:49:57 -0500 writes: > Please raise your hand if you have EVER used # to document R code in > the way mentioned on the LISP coding standards page. I have... and still do "all the time". That's also true for (parts of) base R source cod

Re: [ESS] Ever consider changing indentation on #?

2017-05-15 Thread Martin Maechler
> Lionel Henry > on Sat, 6 May 2017 12:30:40 +0200 writes: > I don't use it either (though I tried at some point). > Any objection to change the default Martin? Yes !! > Lionel >> On 6 mai 2017, at 11:44, Vitalie Spinu wrote: >> >> >> I would add her

Re: [ESS] working directory lost when R session closes

2017-07-17 Thread Martin Maechler
> Paul Johnson > on Fri, 14 Jul 2017 09:31:31 -0500 writes: > Do you notice this: > cd into a folder, say "~/tmp/project/R" and start emacs with a file in > there. The working directory correctly shows "~/tmp/project/R". > Then launch an R session. When you quit the R

Re: [ESS] Aquamacs cannot find file at startup

2017-09-20 Thread Martin Maechler
> Christian > on Mon, 18 Sep 2017 18:34:19 +0200 writes: > Hi, > Starting Aquamacs 3.3 on MacbookPro MacOS 10.12.6, I get an error > > Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading > ‘/Users/hoffmannc/.emacs’: > File error: Cannot open l

[ESS] ESS 17.11 released

2017-11-13 Thread Martin Maechler
ay be particularly important. For the complete list of (documented) new features and bug fixes, read the following (beginning of file 'ANNOUNCE') to the end. In the name of the ESS core team, with thanks to all helpers, notably by github pull requests, Martin -- Martin Maechler,

Re: [ESS] ess-17.11-tgz is not compressed

2017-12-07 Thread Martin Maechler
; has become smart enough to "see" if it needs to uncompress or not; so for practical purposes, you nowadays can use tar xf and it will do the right thing if the file is compressed or not. Martin Maechler ETH Zurich > ~/tmp/ess $ gunzip ess-17.11.tgz > gzip: ess-17.11.tgz: not in

Re: [ESS] ess-17.11-tgz is not compressed

2017-12-07 Thread Martin Maechler
>>>>> Martin Maechler >>>>> on Thu, 7 Dec 2017 17:37:23 +0100 writes: >>>>> Neil Shephard >>>>> on Tue, 5 Dec 2017 08:18:08 + writes: >> Hi, I've only just caught up on the update to ess-17.11 >> a

Re: [ESS] ess-17.11-tgz is not compressed

2017-12-08 Thread Martin Maechler
>>>>> Ulrich Mueller >>>>> on Fri, 8 Dec 2017 09:34:52 +0100 writes: >>>>> On Thu, 7 Dec 2017, Martin Maechler wrote: >> well, I'm managing the ess.r-project.org server and I >> have actually mounted the file syst

Re: [ESS] ess-17.11-tgz is not compressed

2017-12-08 Thread Martin Maechler
>>>>> Martin Maechler >>>>> on Fri, 8 Dec 2017 09:57:08 +0100 writes: >>>>> Ulrich Mueller >>>>> on Fri, 8 Dec 2017 09:34:52 +0100 writes: >>>>> On Thu, 7 Dec 2017, Martin Maechler wrote: >>> wel

Re: [ESS] ess-dump-object-into-edit-buffer

2018-04-12 Thread Martin Maechler
> Lionel Henry > on Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:52:29 +0200 writes: > I think we should adjust the max lines before calling > dump(). In the mean time you can do it manually: > options(deparse.max.lines = NA) > The reason for the change of behaviour is this change in

Re: [ESS] ess-dump-object-into-edit-buffer

2018-04-25 Thread Martin Maechler
NA)` do the trick? >> Martin fixed this for R 3.5 btw. > Fixed in what sense? `dump` should not be abiding that option. It has it's own > control with .deparseOpts. Well, did you try? .. That's why it was a bug .. which was never reported at all, till Lionel

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

2018-09-23 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
emacs > file should do it. Yes, indeed. I have that set for > 10 years. Actually, I have '(inferior-R-args "--no-restore-history --no-save ") in my (custom-set-variables ... ) list at the end of my ~/.emacs Martin Maechler > > Best regards, > > Jeremie

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

2018-10-10 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
/ESS/issue both to see if your issue has already been reported and to open a new issue there. If you are unsure about new philosophy etc, please use this mailing list to ask for help etc. For the ESS core team, Martin Maechler ETH Zurich --- (1) After download, if you want to check the

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

2018-10-10 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
/ESS/issue both to see if your issue has already been reported and to open a new issue there. If you are unsure about new philosophy etc, please use this mailing list to ask for help etc. For the ESS core team, Martin Maechler ETH Zurich --- (1) After download, if you want to check the

[ESS] ESS 18.10 released

2018-10-20 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
) new features and bug fixes, read the following (beginning of file 'ANNOUNCE') to the end. In the name of the ESS core team, with thanks to all helpers, notably by github pull requests, Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich 1 ANNOUNCING ESS The ESS Developers proudly announce the

[ESS] ESS 18.10-1 patch released

2018-10-23 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
-and-step' ('C-c C-n' and '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 &

Re: [ESS] Building 18.10-1 from source

2018-11-01 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
ead of a '-' because MELPA is limited to need that), to be done "real soon". I hope it should happen within a week. Martin Maechler ETH Zurich (and ESS core release manager) __ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

[ESS] ESS 18.10.2 released

2018-11-10 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
ame of the ESS core team, with thanks to all helpers, notably by github pull requests, Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich 1 ANNOUNCING ESS The ESS Developers proudly announce the release of ESS 18.10.2 Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) provides an intelligent, consistent interface

Re: [ESS] Tips for preventing slowing down?

2019-11-13 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
Thanks a lot Bill. I've observed the same... and so have others, often very experienced R users. One thing some of us found was that 'flymake' was very harmful in these situations, so we have turned it off (or tried to ...) completely. But I have to acknowledge that it does not solve the probl

Re: [ESS] ESS process on Docker containers and enabing Flymake

2020-02-22 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
> Dirk Eddelbuettel via ESS-help > on Fri, 21 Feb 2020 15:01:32 -0600 writes: > On 21 February 2020 at 12:50, Alex Branham wrote: | We do > just use the package if it's installed. No demanding > anywhere. > Perfect, thanks for clarifying. > Now, given that the pa

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 equival

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 in

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, t

Re: [ESS] Latest Emacs distributions out!

2020-09-17 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
the diligence to find the root cause, and even better found a way for ESS to again enable M-x R on Windows (finding the latest released version of R that's available on the machine where I also typically have a dozen versions of R installed). Best regards, Martin Martin Maechler ETH Zurich and R Core team __ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help

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
w release has been that the *.Rnw *.Rmd (Sweave, knitr, Rmarkdown, ..) support ("*noweb") in ESS has been deprecated in favor of the new poly-mode based emacs lisp packages. ... and the plan has been that an "ESS+" bundle should be have been ready when ESS is released, where

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 n

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] 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] 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 name

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 > > /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elp

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 funct

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 si

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 Rh

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 under

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 exce

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 summa

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] Some annoyances with ESS >= 24.x + polymode

2024-08-27 Thread Martin Maechler via ESS-help
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 10:06 PM Vincent Goulet via ESS-help wrote: > > Hi all, > > As many of you will know, I have been a very long time user of ESS. For my > literate programming needs, I also stuck mostly to Sweave and .Rnw files. > Therefore, Rmarkdown and knitr are neither a priority nor a