On RedHat linux 7.2, I upgraded (?) Emacs and R at the same time and now I'm getting some funny business with R and ESS. I reinstalled ESS from the tarball and re-byte-compiled. In particular, help.start() does work, and ESS works to send text regions to the R process, but ?function does not return anything, and the status line says "ESS process not ready. Finish your command before trying again." Is this more likely a 1) known problem or 2) result of my poor installation of Emacs, R, or ESS? -- Paul E. Johnson email: pauljohn at ukans.edu Dept. of Political Science http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn University of Kansas Office: (785) 864-9086 Lawrence, Kansas 66045 FAX: (785) 864-5700 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>>>>> "PEJ" == Paul E Johnson <Paul> writes:PEJ> Is this more likely a 1) known problem or 2) result of my PEJ> poor installation of Emacs, R, or ESS? Known problem with Emacs 21.1. Silly incompatible comint changes in 21.1 that weren't in the last beta-test release. We need to rewrite some process handling code for it. I would suggest XEmacs at this point, or backing down to Emacs 20. Bad move, upgrading to it when most of the ESS developers are on paternity leave (myself), fighting to release the new version of R (Kurt/Martin), or closing out teaching or projects (Rich/Rodney). We need to release the current set of fixes sometime, but not sure when... best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini Rsrch. Asst. Prof. of Biostatistics U. of Washington Biostatistics rossini at u.washington.edu FHCRC/SCHARP/HIV Vaccine Trials Net rossini at scharp.org -------------- http://software.biostat.washington.edu/ -------------- FHCRC: M-W: 206-667-7025 (fax=4812)|Voicemail is pretty sketchy/use Email UW: T-Th: 206-543-1044 (fax=3286)|Change last 4 digits of phone to FAX Rosen: (Mullins' Lab) Fridays, and I'm unreachable except by email. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Emacs 21.1 has other problems. It may be good to wait for the next version. I tried setting it up, and gave up and went back to version 20.7. The trouble I had was with the icon bar. Ugh. Well, you can remove it, but the geometry is set before the bar is removed, so you need to make the geometry bigger to compensate. But this means that, if you like things big (as I do), the little window at the bottom which asks you what directory you want, when you do emacs -f R, is off the screen. And the SGML mode - which I use a lot - wouldn't work for me. [Don't tell me how to fix it. I really am happy with 20.7.] At that point I figured, "Well, I'll get this to work by reading the manual." BUT THERE IS NO MANUAL. That is the real killer. (There is on-line help, but it is too hard to go through it looking for things. What I want is something like http://www.gnu.org/manual/emacs/ but for 21.1.) In sum, I would not be the least upset if the ESS team said, "If you want to use ESS, stick with Emacs 20.7 for a while." Jon Baron -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On ?, 2001-12-13 at 12:29, Jonathan Baron wrote:> Emacs 21.1 has other problems. It may be good to wait for the > next version. I tried setting it up, and gave up and went back > to version 20.7.[snip]> In sum, I would not be the least upset if the ESS team said, "If > you want to use ESS, stick with Emacs 20.7 for a while."Well, what I really like about the new emacs is that you get syntax highlighting when running in the console. Big thumb up for that one. -- Stuart Luppescu -=- s-luppescu at uchicago.edu University of Chicago -=- CCSR ???????? -=- Kernel 2.4.14-xfs Half a mind is a terrible thing to waste! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 240 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20011219/4a3fb7ad/attachment.bin