[ESS] Failing to load r-autoyas

[Matthew Fidler]

It seems that yasnippet is not turning on. Can you turn it on in an R buffer?

Matt

On Mar 24, 2012, at 10:39 PM, Fernando Mayer <fernandomayer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Matthew,
>
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Matthew Fidler
> <matthew.fidler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Other questions:
>>
>> Does an R process start when you type tab?
>
> No. Nothing happens.
>
>> What do you see when you type, C-h k <tab> in an R buffer?
>
> In an [R] buffer it is:
>
> TAB (translated from <tab>) runs the command ess-indent-command, which
> is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `ess-mode.el'.
>
> It is bound to TAB, <menu-bar> <ESS> <ESS Edit> <Indent line>.
>
> (ess-indent-command &optional WHOLE-EXP)
>
> Indent current line as ESS code, or in some cases insert a tab character.
> If `ess-tab-always-indent' is non-nil (the default), always indent
> current line.  Otherwise, indent the current line only if point is at
> the left margin or in the line's indentation; otherwise insert a tab.
> A numeric argument, regardless of its value, means indent rigidly all
> the lines of the expression starting after point so that this line
> becomes properly indented.  The relative indentation among the lines
> of the expression are preserved.
>
> And in an inferior *R* buffer it is
>
> TAB (translated from <tab>) runs the command comint-dynamic-complete,
> which is an interactive compiled Lisp function.
>
> It is bound to TAB, <menu-bar> <completion> <complete>.
>
> (comint-dynamic-complete)
>
> Dynamically perform completion at point.
> Calls the functions in `comint-dynamic-complete-functions' to perform
> completion until a function returns non-nil, at which point completion is
> assumed to have occurred.
>
> Maybe I have to set something here to nil?
>
>> What version of yasnippet is Ubuntu's default?
>
> yasnippet 0.6.1
>
> Thanks again,
> Fernando.
>
>> On Mar 23, 2012, at 11:18 PM, Fernando Mayer <fernandomayer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Matthew,
>>>
>>> even with that line it didn't work. I tried it again with all the four
>>> alternatives mentioned earlier, and still nothing.
>>>
>>> I've also put this line
>>>
>>> (load "~/.emacs.d/r-autoyas")
>>>
>>> to make sure r-autoyas.el was being explicitly loaded. Now in the
>>> *Messages* buffer it appears as loaded, yet with no result.
>>>
>>> Let me know if there is something else I could test here.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Fernando Mayer
>>> Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC
>>> Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia - ECZ/CCB
>>> URL: http://sites.google.com/site/fernandomayer
>>> e-mail: fernandomayer [@] gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Matthew Fidler
>>> <matthew.fidler at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Fernando,
>>>>
>>>> I forgot to update the github readme, but I believe you need to add:
>>>>
>>>> (add hook 'ess-mode-hook 'r-autoyas-ess-activate)
>>>>
>>>> as to your .emacs file.  I was told by some package maintainers that it is
>>>> bad form to automaticailly load features.
>>>>
>>>> Please tell me if that works.  I have opened an issue at the github repo
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/mlf176f2/r-autoyas.el/issues/2
>>>>
>>>> Matt.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Fernando Mayer <fernandomayer at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I was trying to use r-autoyas [1], but was not very succesfull. I've
>>>>> downloaded r-autoyas.el from here [2] and put it in my ~/emacs.d/ . In
>>>>> my .emacs I have
>>>>>
>>>>> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/")
>>>>> (require 'ess-site)
>>>>> (require 'r-autoyas)
>>>>>
>>>>> but when I open emacs/ess and R and try something like
>>>>>
>>>>> rnorm(<TAB>
>>>>>
>>>>> nothing happens, not even a warning or error message from buffer. In
>>>>> the *Messages* buffer I also don't see any call to r-autoyas.
>>>>>
>>>>> Some other things I've tried (not cumulatively):
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Put r-autoyas.el in /etc/emacs/site-start.d/ (since I'm sure this
>>>>> is in the load-path)
>>>>> 2) Put this in .emacs:
>>>>>
>>>>> (yas/initialize)
>>>>> (yas/load-directory "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/yasnippet/snippets")
>>>>>
>>>>> 3) I've yanked all the content of r-autoyas.el into my .emacs
>>>>> 4) M-x load-file <r-autoyas.el>
>>>>>
>>>>> In neither of them it worked.
>>>>>
>>>>> This may be something basic I'm missing since I'm not a Lisp expert,
>>>>> but I can't figure out what is going wrong here.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 with:
>>>>>
>>>>> R 2.14.2 (compiled from source)
>>>>> ESS 5.14-1oneiric0 (installed via apt from a CRAN mirror)
>>>>> Emacs 23.3.1 (via apt from Ubuntu repositories)
>>>>> yasnippet 0.6.1c-1 (via apt from Ubuntu)
>>>>> r-autoyas.el 0.18 (via [2])
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ESSr-autoyas
>>>>> [2] http://www.svenhartenstein.de/uploads/r-autoyas.el
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance for any suggestion,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> Fernando Mayer
>>>>> Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC
>>>>> Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia - ECZ/CCB
>>>>> URL: http://sites.google.com/site/fernandomayer
>>>>> e-mail: fernandomayer [@] gmail.com
>>>>>
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