[ESS] Getting history access from within an R session run by iESS

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Hoffman <hoffman.mm at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:54:28 +0100 writes:

    Michael> A.J. Rossini wrote:
    >> Since this is Emacs and R, yes there is.  BUT, it's going to take
    >> someone adding this to the API.  Not going to be simple or short to
    >> implement.

    Michael> Well, I've noticed it works fine when I'm using
    Michael> shell and ess-remote.  Although that is unappealing
    Michael> for other reasons. I guess if I want the best of
    Michael> both of those worlds I would have to learn some
    Michael> more Elisp and do it myself.

I'd rather strongly recommend to follow the route that Rich
Heiberger has proposed.
In my opinion the "history" handling does not belong to the R
language in some sense, and I would not want any code /
functionality that depends on it.  
Potentially, there are versions of R installed without
readline support and hence without any "built in" history
support {of course, ESS would still work perfectly}. 
We (R core) would still consider such R installations to be
perfectly valid.

Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich


    >> So the general answer is "probably not".  There are other
    >> solutions to general problem you are addressing, though.

    Michael> If you could give some suggestions in that regard I would be most 
    Michael> grateful. :)
    Michael> -- 
    Michael> Michael Hoffman