R help - Apr 2000 - how to send a bug report within ESS

Hi,

  I just tried to send a bug report within an ESS session in emacs.
  bug.report() simply returned quietly, giving no indication what it
  did or didn't whatsoever.  (I hope you don't see empty emails
  because of this in R-bugs.)

  What's the preferred way to send a bug.report?  Shouldn't it work
  with method="ess"?  Also, I keep forgetting this, what's the
easiest
  way to produce that list of system variables, versions etc?  (The
  cleaned up version of R.version()?)

  Thanks,
  -tom

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>>>>> On 07 Apr 2000 12:00:47 -0400,
>>>>> Thomas J Vogels (TJV) wrote:
TJV> Hi,

TJV>   I just tried to send a bug report within an ESS session in emacs.
TJV>   bug.report() simply returned quietly, giving no indication what it
TJV>   did or didn't whatsoever.  (I hope you don't see empty emails
TJV>   because of this in R-bugs.)

TJV>   What's the preferred way to send a bug.report?  Shouldn't it
work
TJV>   with method="ess"?  Also, I keep forgetting this, what's
the easiest
TJV>   way to produce that list of system variables, versions etc?  (The
TJV>   cleaned up version of R.version()?)

I'm using method "gnudoit" from both xterm and ESS which gets you
into
an emacs mail buffer. Of course you need a working gnudoit for
this. Problem with ESS was (I think) that you can't open an editor
inside emacs and know when it terminates, hence method "ess" does
nothing but dump the text to stdout.

.f
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