ESS 13.05 released -- but beware for Debian!

Martin Maechler maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Wed May 15 11:01:21 CEST 2013


Dear Dirk,

we have a new enthusiastic  ESS core member,
Vitalie Spinu, 
who has helped improving ESS in many good ways.

OTOH, he is sometimes too hasty,
and currently he has been offline in a crucial time before the
release of ESS 13.05 and this morning decided he did not like
the latest changes and wanted them to happen differently 
*AND* svn committed everything.

Consequence: The current SVN of ESS is  *NOT* compatible with
the officially released ESS 13.05.
Do *NOT* build the debian version of the current svn,
but rather of  svn revision 5577,
i.e., inside an ess produced by

 svn co -r5577 https://svn.r-project.org/ESS/trunk ess

or wait a few hours before the svn is "fixed" again.

Best regards,
Martin

>>>>> Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>>>>>     on Wed, 15 May 2013 09:18:18 +0200 writes:

    > A few moments ago, we have relased  ESS 13.05.
    > This is "big step" release  in the following sense:
    > There are several small improvements and also *NON* backcompatible 
    > changes of defaults on purpose  (all of which can be reverted if you need):

    > 1) "ess-tracebug" has been turned on by default, which influences
    > and facilitates debugging .. but also needs some "getting used to".

    > 2) ess ElDoc is more visible, more "helping", but therefore
    > potentially surprising before you're getting used to.
    > OTOH, it should be more transparent to the R user as "ESSR"
    > now is part of search().

    > 3) The default ess-style has been changed from years of 'DEFAULT'
    > to 'RRR',  see the recent e-mails on ESS-help, for the main
    > rason that a close cousin of RRR has been in use in Vincent
    > Goulet's Windows and MacOS distros for ESS. 


    > Below is the first half of the ANNOUNCE file part of the ESS docu.
    > Also note at the very bottom the cited e-mail from Rodney
    > Sparapani who gives links into the online version of the ESS
    > manual for the most important changes.

    > In the name of the ESS Core Team,

    > Martin Maechler, 
    > ETH Zurich

    > ----------------------------

    > 1 ANNOUNCING ESS
    > ****************

    > The ESS Developers proudly announce the release of ESS

    > 13.05

    > Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) provides an intelligent, consistent
    > interface between the user and the software.  ESS interfaces with
    > R/S-PLUS, SAS, BUGS/JAGS, Stata and other statistical analysis packages
    > under the UNIX, GNU Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and other
    > operating systems.  ESS is a package for the GNU Emacs and XEmacs text
    > editors whose features ESS uses to streamline the creation and use of
    > statistical software.  ESS knows the syntax and grammar of statistical
    > analysis packages and provides consistent display and editing features
    > based on that knowledge.  ESS assists in interactive and batch
    > execution of statements written in these statistical analysis languages.

    > ESS is freely available under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
    > Please read the file COPYING which comes with the distribution, for
    > more information about the license. For more detailed information,
    > please read the README files that come with ESS.

    > 1.1 Getting the Latest Version
    > ==============================

    > The latest released version of ESS is always available on the web at:
    > ESS web page (http://ess.r-project.org) or StatLib
    > (http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/ESS/)

    > 1.1.1 ESS subversion repository
    > -------------------------------

    > The latest development version of ESS is available via
    > `https://svn.R-project.org/ESS/', the ESS Subversion repository.  If
    > you have a Subversion client (see `http://subversion.tigris.org/'), you
    > can download the sources using:
    > % svn checkout https://svn.r-project.org/ESS/trunk PATH
    > which will put the ESS files into directory PATH.  Later, within
    > that directory, `svn update' will bring that directory up to date.
    > Windows-based tools such as TortoiseSVN are also available for
    > downloading the files.  Alternatively, you can browse the sources with a
    > web browser at: ESS SVN site (https://svn.r-project.org/ESS/trunk).
    > However, please use a subversion client instead to minimize the load
    > when retrieving.

    > If you remove other versions of ESS from your emacs load-path, you
    > can then use the development version by adding the following to .emacs:

    > (load "/path/to/ess-svn/lisp/ess-site.el")

    > Note that https is required, and that the SSL certificate for the
    > Subversion server of the R project is

    > Certificate information:
    > - Hostname: svn.r-project.org
    > - Valid: from Jul 16 08:10:01 2004 GMT until Jul 14 08:10:01 2014 GMT
    > - Issuer: Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, CH
    > - Fingerprint: c9:5d:eb:f9:f2:56:d1:04:ba:44:61:f8:64:6b:d9:33:3f:93:6e:ad

    > (currently, there is no "trusted certificate").  You can accept this
    > certificate permanently and will not be asked about it anymore.

    > 1.1.2 Git for development
    > -------------------------

    > For development and experimentation on new features, there is now a
    > GitHub branch for ESS, available at `https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS'.

    > 1.2 Current Features
    > ====================

    > * Languages Supported:
    > * S family (R and S+ AKA S-PLUS)

    > * SAS

    > * OpenBUGS/JAGS

    > * Stata

    > * Julia

    > * Editing source code (S family, SAS, OpenBUGS/JAGS, Stata, Julia)
    > * Syntactic indentation and highlighting of source code

    > * Partial evaluation of code

    > * Loading and error-checking of code

    > * Source code revision maintenance

    > * Batch execution (SAS, OpenBUGS/JAGS)

    > * Use of imenu to provide links to appropriate functions

    > * Interacting with the process (S family, SAS, Stata, Julia)
    > * Command-line editing

    > * Searchable Command history

    > * Command-line completion of S family object names and file
    > names

    > * Quick access to object lists and search lists

    > * Transcript recording

    > * Interface to the help system

    > * Transcript manipulation (S family, Stata)
    > * Recording and saving transcript files

    > * Manipulating and editing saved transcripts

    > * Re-evaluating commands from transcript files

    > * Interaction with Help Pages and other Documenation (R)
    > * Fast Navigation

    > * Sending Examples to running ESS process.

    > * Fast Transfer to Further Help Pages

    > * Help File Editing (R)
    > * Syntactic indentation and highlighting of source code.

    > * Sending Examples to running ESS process.

    > * Previewing

    > 1.3 Requirements
    > ================

    > ESS is most likely to work with current/recent versions of the following
    > statistical packages: R/S-PLUS, SAS, Stata, OpenBUGS and JAGS.

    > ESS supports current, and recent, stable versions of GNU Emacs
    > (currently, specifically, the 23.x and 24.x series;
    > alpha/beta/pre-release versions are NOT SUPPORTED).  Due to XEmacs
    > lacking some features that ESS requires, ESS support of XEmacs ends
    > with ESS 12.04-4.  This decision will be re-visited in the future as
    > XEmacs continues to sync with GNU Emacs.

    > To build the PDF documentation, you will need a version of TeX Live
    > or texinfo that includes texi2dvi (BEWARE: recent TeX Live, and some
    > texinfo RPMs, do NOT include texi2dvi).

    > 1.4 Stability
    > =============

    > All recent released versions are meant to be release-quality versions.
    > While some new features are being introduced, we are cleaning up and
    > improving the interface.  We know that there are many remaining
    > opportunities for documentation improvements, but all contributors are
    > volunteers and time is precious. Patches or suggested fixes with bug
    > reports are much appreciated!

    > 1.5 Mailing List
    > ================

    > There is a mailing list for discussions and announcements relating to
    > ESS.  Join the list by sending an e-mail with "subscribe ess-help" (or
    > "help") in the body to <ess-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch>;
    > contributions to the list may be mailed to
    > <ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>.  Rest assured, this is a fairly
    > low-volume mailing list.

    > The purposes of the mailing list include

    > *  helping users of ESS to get along with it.

    > *  discussing aspects of using ESS on Emacs and XEmacs.

    > *  suggestions for improvements.

    > *  announcements of new releases of ESS.

    > *  posting small patches to ESS.

    > 1.6 Reporting Bugs
    > ==================

    > Please send bug reports, suggestions etc. to
    > <ESS-bugs at stat.math.ethz.ch>

    > The easiest way to do this is within Emacs by typing

    > `M-x ess-submit-bug-report'

    > This also gives the maintainers valuable information about your
    > installation which may help us to identify or even fix the bug.

    > If Emacs reports an error, backtraces can help us debug the problem.
    > Type "M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET".  Then run the
    > command that causes the error and you should see a *Backtrace* buffer
    > containing debug information; send us that buffer.

    > Note that comments, suggestions, words of praise and large cash
    > donations are also more than welcome.

    > 1.7 Authors
    > ===========

    > * A.J. Rossini (mailto:blindglobe at gmail.com)

    > * Richard M. Heiberger (mailto:rmh at temple.edu)

    > * Kurt Hornik (mailto:Kurt.Hornik at R-project.org)

    > * Martin Maechler (mailto:maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch)

    > * Rodney A. Sparapani (mailto:rsparapa at mcw.edu)

    > * Stephen Eglen (mailto:stephen at gnu.org)

    > * Sebastian P. Luque (mailto:spluque at gmail.com)

    > * Henning Redestig (mailto:henning.red at googlemail.com)

    > * Vitalie Spinu (mailto:spinuvit at gmail.com)

    > 1.8 License
    > ===========

    > The source and documentation of ESS is free software.  You can
    > redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
    > Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
    > version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

    > ESS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
    > ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
    > FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
    > in the file COPYING in the same directory as this file for more details.

    > 1.9 New Features
    > ================

    > Changes/New Features in 13.05:
    > * ESS[gretl]: Support for `gretl' (both editing and sub-process
    > interaction). A contribution of Ahmadou Dicko.

    > * ESS: process output display is 4-10 times faster due to new caching
    > and only occasional emacs re-display (for the moment this
    > functionality is available only when `ess-tracebug' is active).

    > * ESS: `C-c `' is now bound to `ess-show-traceback' and `C-c ~' is
    > bound to `ess-show-call-stack'.

    > * ESS[R]: ESS stores function in 'ESSR' environment to avoid
    > kludging users' global environment and accidental deletion.

    > * ESS[R]: new variable `ess-swv-processing-command' to control
    > weaving and tangling.

    > * ESS[R]: `ess-default-style' has been changed  (from `DEFAULT') to
    > `RRR'.  Use something like  `(setq ess-default-style 'DEFAULT)' or
    > `(setq ess-indent-level 2)' in your `~/.emacs' equivalent
    > _before_ loading ESS, if you do not like this new "incompatible"
    > default style.

    > * ESS[julia]: ESS stores its functions in 'ESS' module.

    > * ESS[julia]: Eldoc is now supported in julia modes

    > * ESS[julia]: Adjusted error reference detection and interactive help
    > to julia internal changes

    > * ESS[R]: `ess-use-tracebug''s default has been changed to  `t'. Set
    > it to nil if you want to keep the previous behavior.

    > * ESS[tracebug]: Electric debug keys have been removed [breaking
    > change] The functionality was replaced with `ess-debug-minor-mode'
    > and `ess-debug-minor-mode-map'.

    > * ESS[tracebug]: `ess-tracebug-map' is an alias to  `ess-dev-map'
    > `C-c C-t'.

    > * ESS[tracebug]: `ess-bp-toggle-state' (`C-c C-t o')  can now be
    > used during the debug session to toggle breakpoints on the fly
    > (suggestion by Ross Boylan).

    > * ESS[tracebug]: `ess-debug-flag-for-debugging' and
    > `ess-debug-unflag-for-debugging' work correctly from the debugging
    > contexts. These commands also recognize non-exported functions for
    > the  packages listed in `ess-developer-packages' (`C-c C-t C-a').

    > * ESS[R]: Eldoc (activated by `ess-use-eldoc') has  become more
    > sophisticated, and hence also more intruding in the interface
    > between the Statistics softare, e.g., R, and the user.

    > Note that you can turn off ElDoc, by placing `(setq ess-use-eldoc
    > nil)'  in your `~/.emacs' file, prior to loading ESS,

    > * ESS[SAS]: long over-looked `SAS-mode-hook' appears!

    > * ESS[SAS]: `ess-sas-edit-keys-toggle' now defaults to `t' since
    > `sas-indent-line' is still broken, i.e. `TAB' is now bound to
    > `ess-sas-tab-to-tab-stop' by default

    > Changes/Bug Fixes in 12.09-2:
    > * ESS: new `ess-switch-to-end-of-proc-buffer' variable that controls
    > whether `C-c C-z' switches to the end of process buffer. The
    > default is `t'. You can use prefix argument to `C-c C-z' to
    > toggle this variable.

    > * ESS: fix in `ess-eval-linewise' that was causing emacs to hang
    > during R debugging with `ess-eval-visibly' equal to `t'.

    > * ESS: fix in `ess-eval-linewise' that was causing emacs to recenter
    > the prompt in visible window

    > * ESS[tracebug]: A better handling of "Selection" prompts and debug
    > related singlekey commands.

    > * ESS: fix a bug in `ess-switch-process' that was causing `*new*'
    > selection to fail.

    > * ESS[R]: Solve missing `ess-local-process-name' bug in R-dired.

    > * ESS[SWV]: `ess-swv-PDF' doesn't ask for a command to run if there
    > is only one command in `ess-swv-pdflatex-commands'.

    > * ESS[SWV]: `ess-swv-weave' gained an universal argument to allow
    > for an interactive choice between available weavers (sweave,
    > knitr).

    > * ESS: `ess-eval-*-and-step' functions go to next empty line at eob,
    > instead of staying at the last line.

    > Changes/New Features in 12.09-1:
    > * ESS _Breaking Changes in Keys_:

    > - New keymaps: `ess-doc-map' bound to `C-c C-d';
    > `ess-extra-map' bound to `C-c C-e';
    > `ess-dump-object-into-edit-buffer' was moved on `C-c C-e C-d'

    > - roxygen map was moved on `C-c C-o' and
    > `ess-roxy-update-entry' now resides on `C-c C-o C-o'

    > - ess-handy-commands is not bound anymore

    > - `ess-dev-map' (including `ess-tracebug' and `ess-developer')
    > moved on `C-c C-t'

    > - `C-c C-y' is deprecated in favor of `C-c C-z C-z'

    > * ESS[R] new command `ess-describe-object-at-point' bound to `C-c
    > C-d C-e' (repeat `C-e' or `e' to cycle). It was inspired by Erik
    > Iverson's `ess-R-object-tooltip'. Customize
    > `ess-describe-at-point-method' to use tooltip instead of an
    > electric buffer.

    > * ESS: New command `ess-build-tags-for-directory' bound to `C-c C-e
    > C-t' for building dialect specific tag tables. After building tags
    > use `M-.' to navigate to function and objects definitions. By
    > default `C-c C-e C-t' builds tags based on imenu regular
    > expressions and also include other common languages `.c, .o, .cpp'
    > etc. But it relies on external `find' and `etags' commands. If
    > `ess-build-tags-command' is defined (for `R'), the inferior
    > process is asked to build tags instead.

    > * ESS: `ess-switch-process' offers `*new*' alternative to start a
    > new process instead of switching to one of the currently running
    > processes.

    > * ESS: Switching between processes (`C-c C-s') uses buffer names
    > instead of the internal process names. Use `M-x rename-buffer'
    > command to conveniently rename your process buffers.

    > * ESS: Process buffers can be automatically named on process creation
    > according to user specified scheme. Default schemes are *proc*,
    > *proc:dir* and *proc:abbr-long-dir* where `proc' stands for the
    > internal process name and `dir' stands for the directory where the
    > process was started in. The default is *proc*. For customization
    > see `ess-gen-proc-buffer-name-function'.

    > * ESS: `ess-eval-visibly-p' is deprecated in favor of
    > `ess-eval-visibly'.

    > * ESS: New evaluation pattern `nowait'.  In addition to old `nil'
    > and `t' values, `ess-eval-visibly' accepts `nowait' for a visible
    > evaluation with no waiting for the process. See `ess-eval-visibly'
    > for details on evaluation patterns.

    > * ESS: New "Process" menu entry with process related commands and
    > configuration

    > * iESS: Process buffer is now automatically shown on errors

    > * ESS: New `ess-switch-to-inferior-or-script-buffer' command bound
    > to `C-c C-z' in both script and process buffers. If invoked form
    > process buffer it switches to the most recent buffer of the same
    > dialect. It is a single key command.

    > * ESSR-help:  On multiple help pages with the same name, `C-c C-v'
    > now asks for user resolution directly in emacs.

    > * ESS[R] ess-roxy: new variable `ess-roxy-re' for fontification of
    > cases where the number of leading `#' differs from `ess-roxy-str'.

    > * ESS[R] Eldoc was considerably enhanced.  It now finds hidden
    > default S3 methods and displays non-default methods' arguments
    > after trailing ||.

    > * ESS[R]: New `ess-display-demos' command bound to `C-c C-d o' and
    > `C-c C-d C-o'

    > * ESS: New `ess-help-web-search' command bound to `C-c C-d w' and
    > `C-c C-d C-w' to facilitate interactive search of web resources.
    > Implemented for `R', `Stata' and `Julia'. See also
    > `ess-help-web-search-command'.

    > * ESS: ess-pdf-viewer-pref accepts now command line arguments

    > * ESS[Rnw]: Add knitr support.  Customize `ess-swv-processor' for
    > the default processor.

    > * ESS[Rnw]: More thorough renaming of remaining `noweb-*' to
    > `ess-noweb-*'.

    > * ESS[Rnw] new commands `ess-eval-chunk-and-step' and
    > `ess-eval-chunk' bound to `M-n C-c' and `M-n C-M-x' to mirror
    > standard ess commands in C-c map.

    > * ESS[R] Auto-completion: new variable `ess-ac-R-argument-suffix' to
    > customize the insertion of trailing "=". Defaults to " = ".

    > * ESS[Julia]: Added index, apropos and web-search to julia.

    > * ESS help: More evaluation commands were added to ess-help mode
    > (`C-c C-c', `C-M-x' etc)

    > Bug Fixes in 12.09-1:
    > * iESShelp: Multiple help pages with the same name are properly
    > handled on `C-c C-v'

    > * iESSremote: Evaluation with ESS remote no longer freezes emacs.

    > * iESS: `comint-previous-prompt' `C-c C-p' no longer stops on
    > secondary prompt "+".

    > * iESS[R], iESS(Sqpe) [S] on Windows: The `options("editor")' is now
    > initialized to `emacsclient' instead of the previous `gnuclient'.
    > The user may need to add the line `(server-start)' to the emacs
    > initialization file. `emacsclient' has been included with emacs
    > since GNU Emacs 22.1.

    > * ESS[Rnw] Fixed "connection to R" bug (in 12.09 only).

    > * ESS[Rnw] Explicit `ess-swv-stangle' and `ess-swv-sweave' functions.

    > * ESS[Rnw] Fixed completion and smart underscore problems cause by
    > unmatched "\"'

    > * ESS[R] is more careful with the `R' code injection.  It now
    > happens only once at the start of the session.

    > * ESS[R]: Fixed auto-scrolling the comint buffer on evaluation.

    > * ESS[Julia]: Solve several indentation and word navigation problems.

    > * ESS[Julia]: Help system works again.

    > Changes/New Features in 12.09:

    > * Due to XEmacs lacking some features that ESS requires, ESS support
    > of XEmacs ends with ESS 12.04-4.  This decision will be re-visited
    > in the future as XEmacs continues to sync with GNU Emacs.

    > * ESS[R]: On Windows, there is now a new customizable variable
    > (currently called `ess-directory-containing-R') to tell ESS where
    > to look for the `Rterm.exe' executables.  The name of the variable
    > and the values it can take are both in beta and subject to change.
    > Prior to this variable, ESS searched only in the default
    > installation directory.  Setting this variable now tells ESS how
    > to find `Rterm.exe' executables when they are installed somewhere
    > else.

    > * ESS[julia]: _new_ mode for editing julia code (`*.jl'). Start with
    > `M-x julia'.

    > Full interaction interface, imenu and basic error referencing are
    > available.

    > * ESS[R] noweb: `noweb-mode' and `noweb-font-lock-mode' have been
    > renamed to `ess-noweb-mode' and `ess-noweb-font-lock-mode' to
    > avoid conflicts with the "real" `noweb-mode'.

    > * ESS[R] noweb: The long standing font-lock bug has been solved in
    > `ess-noweb' interface.

    > * ESS: Basic evaluation keys are now bound to `ess-eval-region-*-'
    > functions:

    > - `C-M-x' is bound to `ess-eval-region-or-function-or-paragraph'

    > - `C-c C-c' is bound to
    > `ess-eval-region-or-function-or-paragraph-and-step'

    > - `C-RET' is bound to `ess-eval-region-or-line-and-step'

    > Each of these functions first evaluates the region whenever the
    > region is active.

    > * ESS: `C-M-a'/`C-M-e' now step to beginning/end of paragraph if no
    > function has been detected.

    > * ESS: `ess-eval-*-and-step' family of functions are now smarter,
    > and don't step to end of buffer or end of chunk code (`@') when at
    > the end of the code.

    > * ESS: `ess-handy-commands' function is bound to `C-c h'

    > * ESS: ESS is now _blinking_  the evaluated region.  Set
    > `ess-blink-region' to nil to deactivate; `ess-blink-delay' gives
    > the duration of the blink. Evaluated region is "blinked" in
    > `highlight' face.

    > * ESS[R-help]  New key `a' for "apropos()" in help buffers. Also
    > available through `C-c h'.

    > * ESS[R-help]  All R commands of type foo?bar and foo??bar are
    > recognized and redirected into appropriate *ESS-help* buffers.

    > * ESS[R]: New customization interface for _font-lock_.

    > ESS font-lock operates with predefined keywords. Default keywords
    > are listed in `ess-R-font-lock-keywords' and
    > `inferior-R-font-lock-keywords', which see. The user can easily
    > customize those by adding new keywords. These variables can also be
    > interactively accessed and saved through `ESS/Font-lock' submenu.

    > Several new fontification keywords have been added. Most notably
    > the keywords for highlighting of function calls, numbers and
    > operators.

    > * ESS[R]: auto-complete is now activated by default whenever
    > auto-complete package is detected. Set `ess-use-auto-complete' to
    > nil to deactivate.

    > * ESS[R]: R AC sources are no longer auto-starting at 0 characters
    > but at the default `ac-auto-start' characters.

    > * ESS no longer redefines default ac-sources, but only appends
    > `ac-source-filename' to it.

    > * ESS: `ac-source-R' now concatenates " = " to function arguments.

    > * ESS: Menus for ESS and iESS have been reorganized and enriched with
    > _Tracebug_ and _Developer_ submenus.

    > * ESS[R]: `ess-developer' and `ess-tracebug' commands are available
    > by default in `ess-dev-map' which is bound to `C-c d' in ESS and
    > iESS maps.

    > * ESS[R]: `eldoc' truncates long lines whenever
    > `eldoc-echo-area-use-multiline-p' is non-nil (the default). Set
    > this variable to t if you insist on multiline eldoc.  See also
    > `ess-eldoc-abbreviation-style'.

    > * ESS[R]: completion code pre-caches arguments of heavy generics
    > such as `plot' and `print' to eliminated the undesirable delay on
    > first request.

    > * iESS: Prompts in inferior buffers are now highlighted uniformly
    > with `comint-highlight-prompt' face.

    > * ESS[R]: R process no longer wait for the completion of input in
    > inferior buffer.  Thus, long running commands like `Sys.sleep(5)'
    > no longer stall emacs.

    > * ESS: [R, S, Stata, Julia] have specialized `ess-X-post-run-hook's,
    > which are run at the end of subprocess initialization.

    > * ESS[Stata]: All interactive evaluation commands work as expected.
    > On-line comments are removed before the evaluation and multiline
    > comments are skipped on `C-c C-c' and other interactive commands.

    > * ESS no longer auto-connects to a subprocess with a different
    > dialect than the current buffer's one.

    > * ESS: `ess-arg-function-offset-new-line' is now a list for all the
    > ESS indentation styles, which results in the following indentation
    > after an open "(":

    > a <- some.function(other.function(
    > arg1,
    > arg2)

    > * ESS[SAS]: Improved MS RTF support for GNU Emacs; try
    > `ess-sas-rtf-portrait' and `ess-sas-rtf-landscape'.



>>>>> Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu>
>>>>>     on Thu, 9 May 2013 08:27:14 -0500 writes:

    >> Hi!
    >> We, the developers of ESS, are planning to release ESS 13.05 next week.
    >> This is a good time for the brave beta testers among you to try it out.
    >> You can find out how to install the development version at
    >> http://ess.r-project.org/index.php?Section=download

    >> There are several new/improved features which you can see at
    >> http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#New-features

    >> Two of the new/improved features in particular are ElDoc and tracebug.
    >> You can find more information about ElDoc at
    >> http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#ESS-ElDoc

    >> Note that you can turn off ElDoc, by placing this in your ~/.emacs
    >> file {prior to (require 'ess-site) }:
    >> (setq ess-use-eldoc nil)

    >> You can find more information about tracebug at
    >> http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#ESS-tracebug

    >> You can toggle tracebug off/on via issuing the following command:
    >> M-x ess-tracebug

    >> If you find any problems, then please report them here.  Thanks

    >> -- 
    >> Rodney Sparapani, PhD  Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research
    >> Sr. Biostatistician               http://www.mcw.edu/pcor
    >> 4 wheels good, 2 wheels better!   Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW)
    >> WWLD?:  What Would Lombardi Do?   Milwaukee, WI, USA

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