[ESS] completion using ess-remote

[Rodney Sparapani]

Francois Pepin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using ESS 5.14 with emacs 23.1.1 and R 2.13.1. I sometimes need to access my R session from different computers so I use screen and ess-remote to connect to it. Unfortunately, the command completion does not work.
> 
> The output I get after re-attaching the screen in a terminal is:
> 
>> as.character(getRversion() >= "2.7.0")
> [1] "TRUE"
>> rcompgen:::.assignLinebuffer('mul')
> Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'rcompgen'
>> rcompgen:::.assignEnd(3)
> Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'rcompgen'
>> rcompgen:::.guessTokenFromLine()
> Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'rcompgen'
>> rcompgen:::.completeToken()
> Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'rcompgen'
>> rcompgen:::.retrieveCompletions()
> Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'rcompgen'
> 
> This is due to the fact that rcompgen is now found under utils, so all these commands should have utils::: instead of rcompgen:::
> 
> Looking into the ESS source, I see the following lines in lisp/ess-r-d.el indicating that ESS knows about this:
>          (NS (if (ess-current-R-at-least '2.7.0)
>                  "utils:::"
>                "rcompgen:::"))
> 
> Would anyone know why ESS is still trying to use rcompgen in this case and how I might be able to convince it not to?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> François Pepin
> Scientist
>  

Wild-ass-guess.  Are you running ESS 5.14 and R 2.13.1 everywhere,
i.e. locally and remotely?

Rodney