[ESS] Emacs 22.1 is out!

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "VG" == Vincent Goulet <vincent.goulet at act.ulaval.ca>
>>>>>     on Fri, 8 Jun 2007 12:24:16 -0400 writes:

    VG> Le 07-06-08 à 11:51, Martin Maechler a écrit :

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    MM> So I tried your installation, on our "Windows Terminal Server'
    MM> After installation, etc
    MM> when I do
    >> 
    MM> M-x R
    >> 
    MM> I get the error
    >> 
    MM> "apply: Spawning child process: invalid argument:"
    >> 
    MM> end with an empty *R* buffer
    MM> and an *ESS* buffer that looks +- ok,
    MM> ending in
    MM> 
    >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
    >> ---
    >> 
    MM> (inf-ess finish [S(R), c:/program files/r/r-2.5.0/bin/rterm.exe(nil,nil)]
    >> 
    >> .................
    >> .................
    >> 
    MM> Making Process...Buf *R*, Proc R, Prog c:/program files/r/ 
    >> r-2.5.0/bin/rterm.exe
    MM> Start File=nil, Args= --ess  .
    >> 
    MM> 
    >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
    >> ---
    >> 
    MM> I did leave  ess-site.el  unchanged.
    >> 
    MM> Any hints are appreciated,
    >> 
    >> Actually, I found it myself:
    >> 
    >> It's a buglet in (the Windows parts) of ESS :
    >> I've installed "R 2.5.0 patched" (from CRAN),
    >> but ESS determines the executable with a wrong PATH :
    >> 
    >> c:/program files/r/r-2.5.0/bin/rterm.exe
    >> 
    >> where as correct would be
    >> 
    >> c:/program files/r/r-2.5.0pat/bin/rterm.exe
    >>                           ^^^
    >> 
    >> Ok, so now it's back to us ESS-core to fix that ...
    >> and provide a new release for ESS  ...
    >> 
    >> Not something I had exactly wanted to do just now,
    >> but maybe that's a good incentive

    VG> As you can tell from my other message, I don't consider this a bug in  
    VG> ESS at all. Well, we step on each other's feet, heh? I honestly  
    VG> didn't know ESS contained "good guesses" for paths and always forced  
    VG> the path in my installations. How good is ESS to guess on R updates?  
    VG> I might as well remove a few lines of the site-start.el file..

Yes, you may well.

It's a newer -- but not so new -- feature of ESS,
that we've quite a nice piece of code that guesses at all
possible version of R installed in the current environment, 
and BTW, also makes them available via the menu,
e.g.  [ESS] --> [Start Process] --> [Other]
for me (on Linux or Solaris) lists more than 20 different versions
of R which I all have installed 
   {yes I know, this may sound a bit crazy, 
    but sometimes its neat to be able to just start R
    version 1.2.1 or 1.8.0  because someone claims something about
    that version of R ... }

Martin



    >> 
    >> Martin
    >> 
    >> 
    VG> HTH    Vincent
    >> 
    VG> Le 07-06-03 à 18:01, Stephen Eglen a écrit :
    >> 
    >>>>> Dear all,
    >>>>> 
    >>>>> Emacs 22.1 is finally out!
    >>>>> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/NEWS.22.1	
    >>>>> 
    >>>>> lists the changes, and you should be able to download it from
    >>>>> ftp.gnu.org (or your gnu mirror in the next day or so), under
    >>>>> directory software/emacs
    >>>>> 
    >>>>> Cygwin binaries have already been made:
    >>>>> http://www.webalice.it/angelo.graziosi/Emacs.html
    >>>>> 
    >>>>> & hopefully soon the W32 binaries will be updated.
    >>>>> 
    >>>>> Stephen
    >>>>> 
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    >> 
    VG> ---
    VG> Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor
    VG> École d'actuariat
    VG> Université Laval, Québec
    VG> Vincent.Goulet at act.ulaval.ca   http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca
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