[ESS-bugs] ess-mode 5.4; R help fails in inferior R processes running under ESS 5.4 with Gnu Emacs 23.1 under MS Windows XP.

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Steve Gutreuter <sgutreuter at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:12:50 -0500 writes:

    > Calls to help usually (but not always) fail from inferior
    > R processes in my laptop installation of ESS 5.8 + Gnu
    > Emacs 23.1 running under Windows XP.  The error messages
    > are always something like:

Below *AND* in the subject line of your E-mail,
it says   ess-mode 5.4
   instead of  ... 5.8

You definitely need a current ESS 5.8  for R 2.10.0 and newer
notably for Windows,
(because R uses the new help system from then on)

Regards,
Martin Maechler

>>>>> Steve Gutreuter <sgutreuter at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:12:50 -0500 writes:

    > Calls to help usually (but not always) fail from inferior R processes
    > in my laptop installation of ESS 5.8 + Gnu Emacs 23.1 running under
    > Windows XP.  The error messages are always something like:

    > starting httpd help server ... done
    > Error in shell.exec(url) :
    >   access to 'http://127.0.0.1:20121/library/base/html/array.html' denied

    >  Oddly, it sometimes works and I have not been able to find a pattern
    > for the failures.


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    > [ess-site.el]: ess-customize-alist=nil
    > [ess-site.el _2_]: ess-customize-alist=nil
    > (ess-find-rterm): ess-R-root-dir = 'c:/PROGRA~1/R/'
    > (R): ess-r-versions-create making M-x defuns for
    >  c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.10.1/bin/Rterm.exe
    > (ess-setq-vars-LOCAL): language=S, dialect=R, buf=nil,
    > comint..echoes=nil, comint..sender=comint-simple-send
    > (ess-mode-1): ess-language=S, ess-dialect=R buf=model_dev.R
    > (ess-mode-1.5): alist=((ess-local-customize-alist quote
    > R-customize-alist) (ess-dialect . R) (ess-suffix . R)
    > (ess-dump-filename-template ess-replace-regexp-in-string S$ ess-suffix
    > ess-dump-filename-template-proto) (ess-mode-syntax-table .
    > R-syntax-table) (ess-mode-editing-alist . R-editing-alist)
    > (ess-change-sp-regexp . ess-R-change-sp-regexp) (ess-help-sec-regex .
    > ess-help-R-sec-regex) (ess-help-sec-keys-alist .
    > ess-help-R-sec-keys-alist) (ess-loop-timeout . ess-S-loop-timeout)
    > (ess-cmd-delay . ess-R-cmd-delay) (ess-function-pattern .
    > ess-R-function-pattern) (ess-object-name-db-file . ess-r-namedb.el)
    > (ess-imenu-mode-function quote ess-imenu-R) (inferior-ess-program .
    > inferior-R-program-name) (inferior-ess-objects-command .
    > inferior-R-objects-command) (inferior-ess-font-lock-keywords .
    > inferior-ess-R-font-lock-keywords) (inferior-ess-search-list-command .
    > search()
    > ) (inferior-ess-help-command . help("%s", htmlhelp=FALSE)
    > ) (inferior-ess-help-filetype) (inferior-ess-exit-command . q())
    > (inferior-ess-exit-prompt . Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: )
    > (inferior-ess-primary-prompt . \([A-Z][][A-Za-z0-9.]*\)?> )
    > (inferior-ess-secondary-prompt . + ?) (inferior-ess-start-file)
    > (inferior-ess-start-args . ) (ess-STERM . iESS) (ess-editor .
    > R-editor) (ess-pager . R-pager) (ess-language . S)
    > (inferior-ess-exit-command . q()
    > ) (inferior-ess-language-start eval inferior-S-language-start)
    > (comint-use-prompt-regexp-instead-of-fields . t))
    > (ess-mode-1.6): editing-alist=((paragraph-start concat \s-*$\|
    > page-delimiter) (paragraph-separate concat \s-*$\| page-delimiter)
    > (paragraph-ignore-fill-prefix . t) (require-final-newline . t)
    > (comment-start . #) (comment-add . 1) (comment-start-skip . #+ *)
    > (comment-column . 40) (indent-line-function quote S-indent-line)
    > (parse-sexp-ignore-comments . t) (ess-style . ess-default-style)
    > (ess-local-process-name) (ess-mode-syntax-table . S-syntax-table)
    > (add-log-current-defun-header-regexp . ^\(.+\)\s-+<-[
    > ]*function) (font-lock-defaults quote (ess-R-mode-font-lock-keywords
    > nil nil ((46 . w) (95 . w)))))
    > (ess-setq-vars-LOCAL): language=S, dialect=R, buf=nil,
    > comint..echoes=nil, comint..sender=comint-simple-send

    >  Finished setting up ESS-mode.

    >  (R): ess-dialect=R, buf=model_dev.R, start-arg=nil
    >  current-prefix-arg=nil
    > (inferior-ess 0): ess-start-args=--ess
    > 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=model_dev.R
    > (inf-ess 1.1): procname=R temp-dialect=R, buf-name=*R*

    >  (R): ess-dialect=R, buf=model_dev.R, start-arg=nil
    >  current-prefix-arg=nil
    > (inferior-ess 0): ess-start-args=--ess
    > ess-setq-vars-default 0: ess-language=S, -dialect=R, 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=model_dev.R
    > (inf-ess 1.1): procname=R temp-dialect=R, buf-name=*R*
    > (inferior-ess) Method #3 start=c:/home/R/ 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 = --ess  , inf-ess-start-args=--ess
    > (inf-ess finish [S(R), c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.10.1/bin/Rterm.exe(nil,nil)]
    > (ess-multi 0):  inf-ess-start-args=--ess  , 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=--ess  , comint-echoes=t
    > (ess-multi 1):  start-args=--ess

    > Making Process...Buf *R*, Proc R, Prog c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.10.1/bin/Rterm.exe
    >  Start File=nil, Args= --ess  .
    > (R): inferior-ess-language-start=options(STERM='iESS', editor='gnuclient.exe')
    > resetting completion to
    > 'ess-R-complete-object-name(ess-setq-vars-LOCAL): language=S,
    > dialect=R, buf=nil, comint..echoes=nil,
    > comint..sender=comint-simple-send

    >  Emacs  : GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
    >  of 2009-07-29 on SOFT-MJASON

    > Package: ess-mode 5.4

    > 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 "C:\\DOCUME~1\\SG\\LOCALS~1\\Temp"

    > --
    > Steve Gutreuter

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