setting up ess-source-directory

[Brett Presnell]

In message <87n1pjayzw.fsf at alpha.cfas.washington.edu> you write:
> 
> >>>>> "BP" == Brett Presnell <presnell at stat.ufl.edu> writes:
>
> Nope, I complain about it, occassionally.  There is a solution, which
> I'd have told you about, Brett, if you'd bothered to reply.

Ok, sorry about that.  You suggested this fix for the directory name
problem I was having:

>     BP> (setq ess-source-directory
>     BP> 	  (lambda () (file-name-as-directory
>     BP> 		      (expand-file-name
>     BP> 		       (concat (car ess-search-list)
>     BP> 			       "/" ess-suffix "-src")))))
> 
> 
> I think I'd want to do something like replace
> 	  (concat (car ess-search-list)
> with
> 	  (concat (if (string= ess-dialect "R")
> 		      "./"
> 		   (car ess-search-list))
> or similar.  (note - the above is untested code, it gives the flavor,
> but I've not compiled nor run it).

I just tried this and it works to get the directory name that I wanted
(R-src with R, S-src with S).  Here's what I now have in my .emacs for
this:

(setq ess-source-directory
		  (lambda () (file-name-as-directory
			      (expand-file-name
			       (concat (if (string= ess-dialect "R")
					   "."
					 (car ess-search-list))
				       "/" ess-suffix "-src")))))

However, the main problem is really that ess-dump-filename-template is
ignored in both R and S modes (this is Mary's problem too).  That's
why I gave up and decided to wait until all this was fixed.

> Right.  but the problem is that the packages I'm using it on tend to
> be Stata (for data analysis), XLispStat, and R...  and I'm somewhat
> altruistic, but not at the expense of features that I need...

Yeah, I knew I was being selfish about that one.  I just don't know
anyone else who uses Stata.  ;-)

> It's not, it's more "facts of life".  I wish we had more developers.
> I'm out of time, ...

Yes, I knew this.  Anyway, again, I didn't mean to denigrate your
efforts in any way.  I'll certainly be looking forward to trying the
next release whenever it comes.

Best regards,

Brett

-- 
Brett Presnell
Department of Statistics
University of Florida
(presnell at stat.ufl.edu)
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