[ESS] ESS and Sweave

Shige Song shigesong at gmail.com
Wed Apr 28 23:07:37 CEST 2010


Dear Martin,

You are right. It is something in my .emacs file that prevented the
launch of the pdf viewer. After getting of these lines, now it works
like charm!

Many thanks.

Best,
Shige

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Martin Maechler
<maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
> As Sebastian said earlier in this thread, he does not see your problem, nor
> do I and many others
> (I hope) who are using the facility for Sweave editing via ESS.
>
> Did you try to start emacs without any startup options ("emacs -q") and then
> only load
> "ess-site.el" (manually),
> and then open the *.Rnw / *.Snw file, and see if you still have the problem
> ?
>
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 01:22, Shige Song <shigesong at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This is weird. ""\"" pdfviewer "\" \"" namestem ".pdf\"")))" brings up
>> the pdf viewer, but frees Emacs; "\"" pdfviewer "\" \"" namestem
>> ".pdf\" &"))) does not freeze Emacs, but does not bring up the pdf
>> viewer either.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Shige
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Shige Song <shigesong at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Here is my newbie's hack.
>> >
>> > from line 177:
>> >
>> > -      (shell-command (concat
>> > -       (if (and ess-microsoft-p (w32-shell-dos-semantics))
>> > -           "start \"" pdfviewer "\" \"" namestem ".pdf\""
>> > -                 "\"" pdfviewer "\" \"" namestem ".pdf\" &"))))
>> > +      (shell-command (concat
>> > +                 "\"" pdfviewer "\" \"" namestem ".pdf\"")))
>> >
>> > It will not work on Windows because I disabled it; but on my Linux box
>> > it works fine now. Hope somebody can come up with a "real" solution.
>> >
>> > Shige
>> >
>> > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Shige Song <shigesong at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Dear Seb,
>> >>
>> >> I got the message "xdg-open /home/shige/test.pdf: finished", but no
>> >> pdf viewer window was opened. No clue what is going on.
>> >>
>> >> Shige
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Sebastian P. Luque <spluque at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400,
>> >>> Shige Song <shigesong at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> On my system, it seems to compile ok, but will not bring up the pdf
>> >>>> viewer (evince).
>> >>>
>> >>> Can you give a recipe to reproduce this and elaborate?  Works for me.
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Seb
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >
>>
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