Re: [ESS] Prevent ESS From Writing .Rhistory

2016-08-25 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
Yes, the dots appear in the minibuffer. Then when the minibuffer goes away, the password is displayed in the *R* buffer. On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Stephen Eglen wrote: > >> Thanks for the suggestion. I _never_ would have guessed that the choice >> of password prompt mattered (especially s

Re: [ESS] Prevent ESS From Writing .Rhistory

2016-08-25 Thread RICHARD M. HEIBERGER
yes i am sure Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 25, 2016, at 17:00, Stephen Eglen wrote: > > >> Yes, the dots appear in the minibuffer. Then when the minibuffer goes >> away, the password is displayed in the >> *R* buffer. > > Are you sure? > > When I do this: > > cat(" Password: "); pwd <- re

Re: [ESS] Prevent ESS From Writing .Rhistory

2016-08-26 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
t;>> 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 > >> > >>&g

Re: [ESS] M-x R pointing to most recent installed version of R?

2016-10-30 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
most likely all that is needed is to close emacs and reopen emacs. that makes ESS search the computer for all instances of R. As of a few weeks ago, 3.3.2 was scheduled for release tomorrow Oct 31. You might want to wait so as to go through this nuisance only once. Rich On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at

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

2017-05-04 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
I always use ## I rarely use # or ## When people send me code with consistent use of #, I can't read it because all the comments fly off to the right and are nowhere near what they are talking about. On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > Please raise your hand if you have EVER u

Re: [ESS] Print spark histograms from skimr package in Emacs ESS on Windows

2018-01-24 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
This looks like an example of UTF-8 not working on Windows. Windows in Emacs ESS > UTF8.beta <- "\u03b2" > UTF8.beta [1] "ß"## wrong character > UTF8.sharps <- "\u00DF" > UTF8.sharps [1] "ß" Macintosh > UTF8.beta <- "\u03b2" > UTF8.beta [1] "β" > UTF8.sharps <- "\u00DF" > UTF8.sharps [1] "ß"

Re: [ESS] Developing R packages under ESS

2018-03-07 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
normally, it just works. Do you have a recent ESS? Try turning off your .emacs and see if that helps. When you open .R files from a package, ESS knows about the package. When you C-c C-c revised files they go into the package namespace. On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 8:28 PM, Boylan, Ross wrote: > Can

Re: [ESS] Developing R packages under ESS

2018-03-07 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 08:52:39PM -0500, Richard M. Heiberger wrote: >> normally, it just works. Do you have a recent ESS? > > git tip as of yesterday. > >> Try turning off >> your .emacs and see if that helps. >> > My .emacs file loads ESS. I suppose I co

Re: [ESS] ESS-mode fails to start S-Plus in Linux

2018-11-19 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
Kim, Try ESS 5.14 which you can get from https://stat.ethz.ch/ESS/downloads/ess/OLD/ ess-5.14.zip30-Jul-2011 18:18 7.0M Unzip it into some sensible location. Start a fresh emacs session with emacs -Q to prevent the current ess from loading. Then start the old ess by dired to the e

Re: [ESS] ESS Emacs / Win initialization

2018-12-18 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
this is a known bug, which has been repaired in the not-yet-released version. Use M-x R-newest and all will be well. On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 2:58 PM Skála, Zdeněk (GfK Czech) via ESS-help wrote: > > Dear all, > apologies for asking a question that could have a trivial answer - I am just > a "pla

Re: [ESS] [External] Re: Function to copy command to script?

2020-05-19 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
Hi Kevin, I think Stephen is assuming you do a lot of work in the *R* and then want to recover it into a script. For that case I wouldn't bother saving the *R* buffer, but would just copy the relevant lines (including output) and then save it back into the script file with C-u C-u C-y (ess-yank-cl

Re: [ESS] [External] Re: Function to copy command to script?

2020-05-19 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
t I find myself doing this type of editing all the time, so I > figured there must already be a function. But maybe not. > > Kevin > > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 11:27 AM Richard M. Heiberger > wrote: > >> Hi Kevin, >> >> I think Stephen is assuming you do a lo

Re: [ESS] [External] Re: R transcript file name suffix

2020-06-01 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
absolutely restore .rt as a valid transcript file name. .st goes back to at least S-Plus and if my memory serves, to S. .rt was constructed by analogy. the .rout and .sout are excessively verbose, rather recent additions. Additions, not replacements. Rich On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 4:47 PM Alex Bra

Re: [ESS] [External] Display color of colors()

2020-06-16 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
i usually use the emacs menu: edit> text properties > display colors On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:59 John Haman via ESS-help < ess-help@r-project.org> wrote: > In an iESS buffer, is it possible to color the output of colors()? > > > > I tried rainbow-mode but it didn't work. > > > > Thanks. > > Joh

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

2020-12-30 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
i will participate, at a minimum by reading all. i don’t yet have a sense of what i might write. Rich On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 09:49 Liz Hare via ESS-help wrote: > Hi, all, > > As you decide what form these materials will take, hit me up for tips and > questions about how to make them accessibl

[ESS] unexpected behavior for Emacs-27.1-1-modified-1 for two MacBooks.

2021-01-26 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
I just downloaded Emacs-27.1-1-modified-1 for two MacBooks. I have been using the previous 25.1.1 successfully on both machines. 1. My new MacBook Air M1, running Big Sur 2. My old MacBook Air mid 2012, running Catalina (it is too old for Big Sur) I have three unexpected behaviors, and they are no

Re: [ESS] unexpected behavior for Emacs-27.1-1-modified-1 for two MacBooks.

2021-01-26 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
n any case he recommends hunspell. I will address the spelling problem soon, but not today. Rich From: Stephen Berman Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 4:07 PM To: Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help Cc: Richard M. Heiberger Subject: Re: unexpected behavio

Re: [ESS] unexpected behavior for Emacs-27.1-1-modified-1 for two MacBooks.

2021-01-26 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
further. Rich From: Dirk Eddelbuettel Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 7:59 PM To: Stephen Berman Cc: ess-help@r-project.org; Richard M. Heiberger Subject: Re: [ESS] unexpected behavior for Emacs-27.1-1-modified-1 for two MacBooks. On 26 January 2021 at

Re: [ESS] unexpected behavior for Emacs-27.1-1-modified-1 for two MacBooks.

2021-01-27 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
ebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" /usr/local/bin/brew update /usr/local/bin/brew install aspell /usr/local/bin/brew link --overwrite aspell From: ESS-help on behalf of Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 8:38 PM T

[ESS] spurious (list ....)

2021-02-17 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
ess sends spurious commands to the *R* buffer, for example > (list "base" '(("..." . "") ("deparse.level" . "1")) '("..." "deparse.level" > "recursive" "make.row.names" "stringsAsFactors" "factor.exclude" "use.names" > "fill" "idcol" "size" "z" "combineLimits" "useOuterStrips")) > > (list "" '

[ESS] emacs 27.1 crashes regularly on Mac M1

2021-03-01 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
I don't know if this is emacs issue or an emacs plus ESS issue. I am using Vincent Goulet's "Emacs Modified for macOS is a distribution of GNU Emacs 27.1 (released August 10, 2020) bundled with a few select packages for R developers and LaTeX users." Process: Emacs-x86_64-10_14 [111

Re: [ESS] [External] Re: emacs 27.1 crashes regularly on Mac M1

2021-03-02 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
ncent Goulet Sent: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 14:51 To: Richard M. Heiberger Cc: ess-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [External] Re: emacs 27.1 crashes regularly on Mac M1 Hi Richard, I can't test as I don't have an M1 Mac available. Did you try David Caldwell's "bare" binari

Re: [ESS] [External] Re: [External] Re: emacs 27.1 crashes regularly on Mac M1

2021-03-03 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
i almost never use those menus. my fingets know the emacs key-combinations too well. It comes out of the blue and catches me unawares. The only thing that occurs to me is something similar to Rmpfr error discussed on R-sig-mac list about a week ago. Simon traced it to a rarely used intel mach

Re: [ESS] [External] Re: [External] Re: emacs 27.1 crashes regularly on Mac M1

2021-03-04 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
s/CGSBackingStore.c, > line 192. The current crash does not have an equivalent statement. I will be happy to forward this type of message directly to emacs. To whom should it be sent? Rich ________ From: Richard M. Heiberger Sent: Wednesday, March 3, 202

Re: [ESS] [External] Re: [External] Re: [External] Re: emacs 27.1 crashes regularly on Mac M1

2021-03-05 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
good idea. i am now downloading a universal build instead of the x86-64 that Vincent Goulet distributed. I will report back in a few days. From: ESS-help on behalf of Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help Sent: Friday, March 5, 2021 09:17 To: ess-help@r-projec

Re: [ESS] [External] Re: [External] Re: [External] Re: emacs 27.1 crashes regularly on Mac M1

2021-03-05 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
ns folder) until I hear further. Rich ____________ From: Richard M. Heiberger Sent: Friday, March 5, 2021 12:18 To: ess-help@r-project.org; Sparapani, Rodney Subject: Re: [External] Re: [ESS] [External] Re: [External] Re: emacs 27.1 crashes regularly on Mac M1 good idea.

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

2021-03-10 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
The relevant question is what version of ess are you using? more specifically which version of ess is included with VIncent Goulet's emacs-26.1? the "bin/x64/Rterm.exe" construction is not in ess-16.10 It is in ess-18.10 the /x64/ wasn't meaningful until R stsarted releasing both 32-bit versions

Re: [ESS] [External] ESS Annoying "Feature"

2021-06-16 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
ual help (eldoc, completions, ...). Best, Lionel On 2/18/21, Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help wrote: > On Jun 16, 2021, at 11:38, Bassett Jr,Roland L via ESS-help > wrote: > > Greetings to all. At some point, my ESS developed the following feature: > when I am editing an .Rnw

Re: [ESS] [External] Re: ESS confused about newest R

2022-07-13 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
The change in date format makes sense. The short term workaround is to set the specific R you want. In general, that ESS code on Windows was designed to find R in any of a number of standard places. The list of what those standard places are is also a variable you can set. The details have

Re: [ESS] [External] R Transcript opens in readonly buffer

2023-11-25 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
Yes, that is the designed behavior. A transcript is the history of a previous session. Normally you would not want to change it. What you might want to do is open a new .r file and copy the source code from the transcript into the new file. Pick up the entire section of transcript (input with

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

2023-12-02 Thread Richard M. Heiberger via ESS-help
my initial reaction is that you are trying to hard. I haven't paid serious attention to Windows since I switched to Mac about 10 years ago. What I recall is that all the unix utilities (sh, awk, grep, etc) that you need are included in the Rtools collection. Indeed they are exactly the cygwin