[ESS] Starting evaluation... hangs

[Gregor Gorjanc]

Hi,

Martin Maechler wrote:
> Thank you, Gregor, for your clarifications.
> 
> It would have been better had they also gone to ESS-help, not
> just to me.

Argh, it seems that I do this very often when I mail with you as seen
here and on R-devel. Strange. I appologize for this.

> Just to confirm you:  UTF-8 should not be a problem for current
> versions of ESS at all  in our experience.
> [ ESS 5.2.x (x < 10) did need a patch more than a year ago,
>   in order to correctly work with UTF-8 and "R in UTF-8" ;
>   but as said, this has been quite a while ago]

Yes, I also noticed that in ESS manual. Any further clues to debug/solve
my issue?

Thanks!

>>>>>>"Gregor" == Gregor Gorjanc <gregor.gorjanc at gmail.com>
>>>>>>    on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:17:13 +0200 writes:
> 
> 
>     Gregor> Martin Maechler wrote:
>     >>>>>>> "Gregor" == Gregor Gorjanc <gregor.gorjanc at gmail.com>
>     >>>>>>> on Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:19:01 +0200 writes:
>     >> 
>     >> 
>     Gregor> Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
>     >> >> Which computer, operating system version, emacs version?
>     >> >> 
>     >> 
>     Gregor> OS?  $ uname -a Linux omni_grega 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Mon
>     Gregor> Jun 20 22:00:38 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
>     >> 
>     Gregor> Emacs? - I get this message when I click on "Show
>     Gregor> Emacs version" GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu,
>     Gregor> X toolkit, Xawd3d scroll bars) of 2005-10-03 on
>     Gregor> trouble, modified by debian
>     >> 
>     >> >> I just ran your example on Windows XP with ESS-5.2.12 and
>     >> >> GNU emacs 21.3.50.1 and all worked well.
>     >> >> 
>     >> >> Rich
>     >> 
>     Gregor> How can I debug my problem?
>     >> 
>     >> Hmm, the behavior you see, Gregor, is quite strange.
>     >> "Of course", your example also runs nicely and smoothly for me
>     >> {Linux Redhat & Debian; Emacs 21.4 and 21.3}.
>     >> 
>     >> I think we have heard of problems like yours for Xemacs users,
>     >> but not GNU emacs..
>     >> 
>     >> Could it be that your *.R buffer (in which you select the region
>     >> via C-c C-r) is in a "strange" encoding where the spaces in
>     >> 
>     >> tmp <- data.frame(m1 = y[1:40],
>     >> m2 = y[41:80],
>     >> m3 = y[81:120],
>     >> m4 = y[121:160],
>     >> s1 = s[1:40],
>     >> s2 = s[41:80],
>     >> s3 = s[81:120],
>     >> s4 = s[121:160])
>     >> 
>     >> are encoded as peculiar UTF-8 codes or ..?
> 
>     Gregor> Martin thanks for this pointers.
> 
>     Gregor> I do have u sign in modeline, which should indicate UTF-8 encoding and I
>     Gregor> get this from use of the following in '.emacs' file.
> 
>     Gregor> (set-language-environment "UTF-8")
> 
>     Gregor> However this part does not have any characters which are not in ASCII
>     Gregor> set. Does ESS have any problems with UTF-8? I have the following LC* set
>     Gregor> in my bash shell
> 
>     Gregor> LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
>     Gregor> LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8
> 
>     >> Call the file ex.R and try in a shell
>     >> 
>     >> tr -d '\-.,<=:)(][[:alnum:]' < ~/R/qq.R | od -a
>     >> 
>     >> you should only get 'sp' (ASCII space) and 'nl' (newline)
>     >> 
> 
>     Gregor> I have. I get only 'sp' and 'nl'.
> 
>     Gregor> $ tr -d '\-.,<=:)(][[:alnum:]' < test.R | od -a
>     Gregor> 0000000  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  nl  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp
>     Gregor> 0000020  sp  sp  sp  nl  nl  sp  sp  sp  sp  nl  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp
>     Gregor> 0000040  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  nl  sp
>     Gregor> 0000060  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp
>     Gregor> 0000100  sp  sp  sp  nl  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp
>     Gregor> 0000120  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  nl  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp
>     Gregor> 0000140  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  nl  sp  sp
>     Gregor> 0000160  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp
>     Gregor> 0000200  sp  sp  nl  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp
>     Gregor> 0000220  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  nl  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp
>     Gregor> 0000240  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  sp  nl
>     Gregor> 0000255
> 
>     Gregor> I also tried with command file and it prints ASCII
> 
>     Gregor> $ file test.R
>     Gregor> test.R: ASCII text
> 
>     Gregor> but if I open this file and write some peculiar characters in it, which
>     Gregor> are not in standard ASCII set, file says this is UTF-8, as it should.
> 
>     Gregor> $ file test.R
>     Gregor> test.R: UTF-8 Unicode text
> 
>     Gregor> -- 
>     Gregor> Lep pozdrav / With regards,
>     Gregor> Gregor Gorjanc
> 
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> 
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Lep pozdrav / With regards,
    Gregor Gorjanc

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