[ESS-bugs] ess-mode 5.3.3; bug in file-name-all-completions?

[Steven McKinney]

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ESS bug report macro to 'ping the mother ship' to 
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From:  <smckinney at bccrc.ca>
To: ess-bugs at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: ess-mode 5.3.3; bug in file-name-all-completions?
Message-Id: <20061025000448.93E9B36D02 at compute-1-1.local>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:04:48 -0700 (PDT)

After installing ess-5.3.3 and invoking emacs, emacs reported error
message shown below.  Somewhere in the chain of function calls,
an inappropriate directory (/opt/maven/bin in this case) is returned
and ends up getting sent to file-name-all-completions.  No R or Splus
executables in that Apache Maven app subdirectory.  That subdir is
restricted on the cluster machine setup I am working on (Rocks cluster).

Working fix:
------------

I edited essd-sp6.el and replaced
  (defvar ess-s-versions '("Splus")
with
  (defvar ess-s-versions nil       

I edited essd-r.el and replaced
  (defvar ess-r-versions '("R-1" "R-2" "R-devel" "R-patched")                                                               
with
  (defvar ess-r-versions nil

I can now start up Emacs and invoke R via
  M-x R

;;;Error Message;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Opening directory" "permission denied" "/opt/maven/bin")
  file-name-all-completions("Splus" "/opt/maven/bin")
  (setq ess-tmp-files (file-name-all-completions ess-root-arg ess-tmp-dir))
  (progn (setq ess-tmp-files (file-name-all-completions ess-root-arg ess-tmp-dir)) (while ess-tmp-files (setq e
ss-tmp-file ... ess-tmp-files ...) (if ... ..$
  (if (and (> ... 0) (file-exists-p ess-tmp-dir)) (progn (setq ess-tmp-files ...) (while ess-tmp-files ... ...)
))
  (when (and (> ... 0) (file-exists-p ess-tmp-dir)) (setq ess-tmp-files (file-name-all-completions ess-root-arg
 ess-tmp-dir)) (while ess-tmp-files (setq ess$
  (while ess-exec-path (setq ess-tmp-dir (car ess-exec-path) ess-exec-path (cdr ess-exec-path)) (when (and ... 
...) (setq ess-tmp-files ...) (while ess-tmp-$
  (let* ((ess-exec-path ...) (ess-tmp-exec nil) (ess-tmp-path-count ...) (ess-tmp-dir nil) (ess-tmp-files nil) 
(ess-tmp-file nil)) (while ess-exec-path (set$
  ess-find-exec-completions("Splus")
  mapcar(ess-find-exec-completions ("Splus"))
  (apply (quote nconc) (mapcar (quote ess-find-exec-completions) ess-s-versions))
  (mapcar (quote file-name-nondirectory) (apply (quote nconc) (mapcar ... ess-s-versions)))
  (ess-uniq-list (mapcar (quote file-name-nondirectory) (apply ... ...)))
  (setq versions (ess-uniq-list (mapcar ... ...)))
  (progn (setq versions (ess-uniq-list ...)) (ess-write-to-dribble-buffer (format "(S): ess-s-versions-create m
aking M-x defuns for %s" ...)) (setq ess-s-ve$
  (if ess-s-versions (progn (setq versions ...) (ess-write-to-dribble-buffer ...) (setq ess-s-versions-created 
versions) (while versions ... ... ... ... ...$

;;;END Error Message;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2006-10-24 on rocks1.cluster.bccrc.ca
Package: ess-mode 5.3.3

current state:
==============
(setq
 ess-language "S"
 ess-dialect "R"
 ess-ask-for-ess-directory t
 ess-ask-about-transfile nil
 ess-directory nil
 ess-keep-dump-files "always"
 ess-source-directory "/tmp/"
 )
[ess-site.el]: ess-customize-alist=nil 
[ess-site.el _2_]: ess-customize-alist=nil 

(R): ess-dialect=nil, buf=*Messages*, start-arg=nil
 current-prefix-arg=nil
(inferior-ess 0): ess-start-args=--no-readline   
ess-setq-vars-default 0: ess-language=Initial, -dialect=nil, buf=nil, comint..echoes=nil, comint..sender=comint
-simple-send
ess-setq-vars-default 1: ess-language=S, -dialect=R, buf=nil, comint..echoes=nil, comint..sender=comint-simple-
send

(inf-ess 1): lang=S, dialect=R, tmp-dialect=R, buf=*Messages*
(inf-ess 1.1): procname=R temp-dialect=R, buf-name=*R* 
(inferior-ess) Method #3 start=/home/smckinney/ buf=*R*
(ess-setq-vars-LOCAL): language=S, dialect=R, buf=nil, comint..echoes=nil, comint..sender=comint-simple-send
(inf-ess 2.1): ess-language=S, ess-dialect=R buf=*R* 
(inf-ess 2.2): start args = --no-readline  , inf-ess-start-args=--no-readline   
(inf-ess finish [S(R), R(nil,nil)]
(ess-multi 0):  inf-ess-start-args=--no-readline  , comint-..echoes=nil
(i-ess 1): buf=*R*, lang=S, comint..echo=nil, comint..sender=comint-simple-send,
(i-ess 2): buf=*R*, lang=S, comint..echo=t, comint..sender=inferior-R-input-sender,
(ess-setq-vars-LOCAL): language=S, dialect=R, buf=nil, comint..echoes=t, comint..sender=inferior-R-input-sender
(i-ess 3): curr-buf=*R*, comint..echo=t, comint..sender=inferior-R-input-sender,
(ess-multi post inf-ess: start-args=--no-readline  , comint-echoes=t
(ess-multi 1):  start-args=--no-readline   
Making Process...Buf *R*, Proc R, Prog R
 Start File=nil, Args= --no-readline  .
(R): inferior-ess-language-start=options(STERM='iESS', editor='emacsclient')

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Steven McKinney

Statistician
Molecular Oncology and Breast Cancer Program
British Columbia Cancer Research Centre

email: smckinney at bccrc.ca

tel: 604-675-8000 x7561

BCCRC
Molecular Oncology
675 West 10th Ave, Floor 4
Vancouver B.C. 
V5Z 1L3
Canada