[ESS] Submitting SAS code to a remote SAS session

[Marc Schwartz]

Older versions are in his archive here:

  http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/pub/emacs/old/

There is a link to the older versions on both his Windows and OSX package pages.

ESS 5.14 was dated 30-Jul-2011, so you might want to look at the 23.3 version of Vincent's packages, which are from August of 2011.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz

On Nov 19, 2012, at 2:53 PM, S. McKay Curtis <s.mckay.curtis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. I'm glad to hear I am not alone. :-)
> 
> Does anybody know if older versions of Dr. Goulet's Emacs bundle are still
> available somewhere online?  It would be nice to install an older version
> while a fix for the current ESS version is in the works, but (despite using
> Emacs for several years) I'm not fluent enough in Emacs to know how to
> rollback to 5.14.  (Dr. Goulet's package makes everything so simple.)
> 
> Thanks again
> McKay
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/19/2012 10:59 AM, S. McKay Curtis wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> I recently upgraded to the latest version of ESS via Vincent Goulet's
>>> Emacs
>>> bundle, and I am having issues submitting code to a remote SAS process
>>> (which worked prior to the upgrade).  Essentially, my procedure to run SAS
>>> was to do the following:
>>> 
>>> 
>> This is the second report we have received about 12.09.  Something
>> must really be wrong ;o)
>> 
>> 
>> 1) M-x ssh
>>> 2) Enter required information to log in remotely to a Unix SAS server.
>>> 3) Start SAS from the command line with the following command:
>>> 
>>> sas -stdio -linesize 80 -noovp -nosyntaxcheck -autoexec autoexec.sas
>>> -display **IP Address here**
>>> 4) M-x ess-remote in the same buffer as the remote SAS session
>>> 5) Type "sas" when dialect is requested
>>> 
>>> 
>> This is where it seems to break down.  Instead of sending commands
>> to the SAS session that was launched...  ESS tries to create
>> a new SAS session locally rather than remotely in the new buffers
>> *SAS.log* and *SAS.lst*.  I'm pretty sure that this worked in 5.14
>> so you can rollback to that.
>> 
>> 
>> Then I could submit code from a sas file using commands like
>>> 
>>> ess-eval-line-and-step-**invisibly
>>> 
>>> Now when I run the above command, Emacs spawns a new "shell" window and
>>> gives the error "Spawning child process: invalid argument."
>>> 
>>> Does anyone have any ideas on how I can fix this?
>>> 
>>> Thanks much!
>>> McKay
>>> 
>> 
>> I don't get that error.  Rather I see:
>> 
>> 
>> Type <f1> m for help on ESS version 12.09-1
>> Cannot read history file /bnp/rodney/sas/.SAShistory
>> Type <f1> m for help on ESS version 12.09-1
>> Cannot read history file /bnp/rodney/sas/.SAShistory
>> Type <f1> m for help on ESS version 12.09-1
>> ...
>> Cannot read history file /bnp/rodney/sas/.SAShistory
>> apply: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size
>> 
>> 
>> I don't have a fix at this time.  But, this is an excellent
>> bug report ;o)  Thanks
>> 
>> --
>> Rodney Sparapani, PhD  Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research
>> Sr. Biostatistician               http://www.mcw.edu/pcor
>> 4 wheels good, 2 wheels better!   Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW)
>> WWLD?:  What Would Lombardi Do?   Milwaukee, WI, USA