R SIG Debian - Oct 2018 - elpa-ess fails to initialize after update to 18.10 on ubuntu bionic

Chris,

For what it is worth, I made two more tests:

- on my system 'M-x R' as well as the suggested-in-the-ESS-documentation
  'M-x ess-version' both work whether or not I have my ~/.emacs -- so
  somehow system path must work

- I have the .el files in the default directory:
  /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa-src/ess-18.10

- They are also symlinked each into
  /usr/share/emacs25/site-lisp/elpa/ess-18.10/
  which also contains the 'compiled' .elc files

"Works here" and I currently have no suggestion as to what to fix on
your end.

Best,  Dirk

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http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org

As a follow-up, I now also received a Debian bug report email from Sebastian
Meyer (CC'ed) with some helpful detective work I should have done -- my
packaging was still setting ess-site.el to the wrong (old) path.

I fixed this in a new build 18.10-1-2.  Before I toss that at the Debian
build servers (and Michael for his Ubuntu builds), could anyone who has an
issue please test it?  Thes ess and elpa-ess deb files are here for now:

  http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/ess/

It's just a directory, not an apt repo, so you need to download eg
  http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/ess/elpa-ess_18.10-1-2_all.deb
and then install it. 

These "work for me" but then I also did not have that recent issue.
Testing feedback (on list or off-list) would be much appreciated.

Thanks,  Dirk

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http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 12:13 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
wrote:
>
> It's just a directory, not an apt repo, so you need to download eg
>   http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/ess/elpa-ess_18.10-1-2_all.deb
> and then install it.
>
> These "work for me" but then I also did not have that recent
issue.
> Testing feedback (on list or off-list) would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,  Dirk
>
> --
Hello, Dirk

It looks OK from my end.

On my Ubuntu 18.1 system, I did not see the problem described above.
However, today I saw some other wrinkles and  I have installed your
package and it works as well.  M-R does cause an  R session to open.
I see an explicit setwd() function call in the R inferior session,
I've not noticed that before.  Otherwise, no damage from the new deb
file.

The standard keyboard shortcuts like C-c C-n work work fine too. The
buttons like "->" and eval region seem OK.

I have some other problems to fix, but I don't think they are related
to packaging.

Thanks for your effort

PJ
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Director, Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis http://crmda.ku.edu

To write to me directly, please address me at pauljohn at ku.edu.