On 3 March 2010 20:36, Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:

> Dear ESS users,
>
> we are happy to announce the release of   ESS 5.8  as of today.
>

Hi ESS core team,

thanks for making 5.8 available.

While I work on a Windows XP machine I also run cygwin and therefore follow
the optional UNIX instructions (Section 1.6), which works well (after some
modifications to the Makeconf file).

After running "make all" and "make install" for ESS 5.8 I noticed that
ess-rutils.el does not get byte compiled. I've tracked it down to the
Makefile in the lisp folder which I think needs ess-rutils.elc inserted into
the ELC section (starting on line 38).

After doing this manually and re-running "make all" and "make install" the
ess-rutils.el and elc files showed up in the correct folder (in the
site-lisp folder).

I then included

(require 'ess-rutils)

in my .emacs file, as per instructions at the beginning of ess-rutils.el,
and was expecting to see some additional entries under the iESS menu after
starting R. This was based on the Usage description in ess-rutils.el and
also on line 390 in the ess-rutils.el file:

    ;; Menu, as suggested by Martin Maechler.

Was I wrong in that assumption? The iESS menu hasn't changed and none of the
other key bindings (C-c c r, etc) work. However, I can access the functions
from ess-rutils.el with the help of M-x.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

Andreas

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