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

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
-- 
Paul E. Johnson   http://pj.freefaculty.org
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.

Hi Paul,

On 24 October 2018 at 14:49, Paul Johnson wrote:
| It looks OK from my end.
| 
| On my Ubuntu 18.1 system, I did not see the problem described above.

Yes, my Ubuntu 18.04 is fine as well.

| 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 guess you meant M-x R, presumably ? )

The (updated, nice) ESS docs also recommend M-x ess-version which works of
course too.

| 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.

Ok, I'll probably ship this one then.

| Thanks for your effort

My pleasure.

Dirk

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

Updates to Linux Mint included an update to ESS. After the update, M-x R 
produces:

load ESSR: + + + Error in file(filename, "r", encoding = encoding) :
 ? cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In file(filename, "r", encoding = encoding) :
 ? cannot open file ?/usr/share/ess/etc/ESSR/R/.load.R?: No such file or 
directory

Any guesses?

Thanks,

Steve Gutreuter



On 10/24/18 4:28 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On 24 October 2018 at 14:49, Paul Johnson wrote:
> | It looks OK from my end.
> |
> | On my Ubuntu 18.1 system, I did not see the problem described above.
>
> Yes, my Ubuntu 18.04 is fine as well.
>
> | 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 guess you meant M-x R, presumably ? )
>
> The (updated, nice) ESS docs also recommend M-x ess-version which works of
> course too.
>
> | 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.
>
> Ok, I'll probably ship this one then.
>
> | Thanks for your effort
>
> My pleasure.
>
> Dirk
>
-- 
Steve Gutreuter


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