[ESS-bugs] Was: New ESS is badly messed up

[Martin Maechler]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>   >> Terry Therneau <therneau at mayo.edu>
>   >> on Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:29:59 -0600 wrote:
>
>   > 3. Using the new one, my .Rnw files were bad.  Vitalie gave me the path to
>   > fixing un this one, which was that indeed, there was a bit of code still living
>   > in my emacs init that had to do with .Rnw; copied from who knows where at some
>   > past date.  I removed it, and now .Rnw files are fine.
>
> Ok, happy that the things worked out :)
>
>   > Two issues remain:
>   > 4. Formatting of any .nw files is now a mess.  I do have an association between
>   > .nw and noweb-mode in the alist, but whatever is currenly being loaded is awful.
>   >   How do I figure out which nw-mode chunk is being used?  Maybe even go back to
>   > the prior one, which worked well.
>
> I am also not a noweb-mode user and cannot help you here,
> sorry. Previous one was ours (I think) because it war overloading the
> standard noweb. You can try associating .nw files with ess-noweb-mode
> but it was heavily tweaked towards R recently to avoid other issues. It
> might still work.
>
>   > 5. The issue I started with.  I use noweb style for some large R projects: think
>   > "survival" and "coxme".  In this usage code inclusions are very common.  Here
>   > are a few lines from coxph.Rnw, which is code, not Sweave.
>   > <<coxph>>=
>   > coxph <- function(formula, data, weights, subset, na.action,
>   >     init, control, ties= c("efron", "breslow", "exact"),
>
> [...]
>
>   > <<coxph-setup>>
>   > <<coxph-penal>>
>   > <<coxph-compute>>
>   > <<coxph-finish>>
>   >     }
>   > @
>   > Then there is more text, often with lots of latex formulas, interspresed with
>   > the definitions of coxph-compute and such.
>
>
> I have added this one to the list of known bugs. Will try to look into
> it some day. But as you also pointed, it is not critical. I personally
> was not aware of this feature, and I bet not many users are.

Which feature do you mean?

Inclusion of previously defined chunks  becomes quite common, as soon
as you use Sweave in a slightly ambitious way (and try to be careful
to abhorr from  "cut 'n' paste").
Hence, I'm using it quite frequently.  In almost all of my recent
non-small *.Rnw's

Martin
>
>
>     Thanks,
>     Vitalie.
>
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