[ESS-bugs] cannot ess-eval correct R code line length of > 4096

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>>>>>     on Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:25:36 +0200 writes:

    > s.Subject.
    > I've committed example -- 23  to our  <ESS>/etc/R-ESS-bugs.R

    > This is from real R code in a CRAN package that I maintain
    > (there are other package authors; I'm just the maintainer, and
    > the R code is not from me:  I *would* break such long lines).
    > Nonetheless,
    > I was searching for syntax errors quite a long time, before I
    > found that it was ESS which made nonsense, rather than a missing
    > or extra "," ...
    > So I really really do believe this should be fixed.

well,...   rstudio currently at least has a similar problem....
"Run line" ends in "+"  waiting for more input,
whereas source()ing works.

One could argue that ESS should at least also wait for more
input rather than sending stuff to R in a way that results in
the syntax error we see...

Martin

    > ---

    > I know I have been busy with other stuff, last weeks, but yes,
    > I'd still like to release  ESS 14.04.

    > Martin

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