ess-create-object-name-db on Unix

[A.J. Rossini]

On a less cynical and more informative note, I should mention that
I've NEVER gotten ess-create-object-name-db to work nicely for me
since S-PLUS 3.3, and eons ago it was on my list to fix.  However,
completion should still work.

gerald.jean at dgag.ca writes:

> Hello,
>
> I have been using ESS for quite a while, thanks to the core team for such a
> usefull tool, and I always thought that completion would be very usefull
> but I never was successfull at getting it to work?
>
> Emacs version 20.7, ESS 5.1.21, I know all this is old, but I have no
> control over this, I am not admin. of the Unix machine, only a user.
>
> Following Andy Liaw's reply to the "delayed response on terminal" posting I
> tried again this morning to get completion to work but to no avail.  Here
> is what I did:
>
>     I ran `ess-create-object-name-db' from *S+6" running through ESS.
>     Moved the resulting file: "ess-sp6-namedb.el" to a directory in the
>    load-path --- I couldn't move it to the ESS/lisp directory since I have
>    no write permission in this directory.
>    Shut down S+ and Emacs.
>    Resarted Emacs and S+6.
>    Checking the *Messages* buffer I see that "ess-sp6-namedb.el" has been
>    loaded and completions formed:
> Loading ess-sp6-namedb.el (source)...
> Loading ess-sp6-namedb.el (source)...done
> Type C-h m for help on ESS version 5.1.21
> Forming completions for /home/jeg002/MySwork...
> Forming completions for /home/jeg002/MySwork...done
> Forming completions for MyFuncs...
> Forming completions for MyFuncs...done
> Forming completions for splus...
> Forming completions for splus...done
> Forming completions for stat...
> Forming completions for stat...done
> Forming completions for data...
> Forming completions for data...done
> Forming completions for trellis...
> Forming completions for trellis...done
> Forming completions for nlme3...
> Forming completions for nlme3...done
> Forming completions for main...
> Forming completions for main...done
> 6.    Then moving to the *S+6* buffer I tried a few completions and every
> time I get the same message: No completions for blablabla.  If I check the
> variable "ess-object-name-db" I see:
>
> ess-object-name-db's value is shown below.
>
> Documentation:
> Alist of lists of object names, with directory names as keys.
> The file ess-namedb.el is loaded (if it exists) to define this variable.
> See also function `ess-create-object-name-db'.
>
> Defined in `ess-cust'.
>
> Value:
> (("main")
>  ("nlme3")
>  ("trellis" "%in%" "%nin%" ".First.lib" ".Last.value" ".R." ".SV4." "Cbind"
> "Cs" "Dotplot" "Function" "Function.areg.boot" "Function.transcan"
> "Gompertz2" "Label" "Label.data.frame" ...
> .
> .
> .
> ... "trigamma" "trunc.rnorm" "tweedie" "unname" "varchkdglm" "varchkglm"
> "varfun.digamma" "vec.to.str" "weighted.summary" "wheremax" "zerodiv"))
>
> Local in buffer *S+6*; global value is
> nil
>
>
> What is wrong?  Why isn't working?
>
> Another little point, most user groups --- NT Emacs, S-news, R, ... ---
> have the name of the list as an identifier in the "Object" line of the
> messages, why doesn't ESS-Help do the same thing?  It would be easier to
> sort the "good stuff" through the zillions of spams.
>
> Thanks for your support,
>
> Gérald Jean
> Analyste-conseil (statistiques), Actuariat
> télephone            : (418) 835-4900 poste (7639)
> télecopieur          : (418) 835-6657
> courrier électronique: gerald.jean at dgag.ca
>
> "In God we trust all others must bring data"  W. Edwards Deming
>
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