[ESS] ESS 16.04 has been released
Vincent Goulet
vincent.goulet at me.com
Sun May 8 18:00:04 CEST 2016
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> Le 7 mai 2016 à 12:26, Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> a écrit :
>
> After the prerelease announcement on Wed (May 4),
> and some small bug fixes all sent via github issues,
> I have now released ESS 16.04.
>
> This is quite a step forward from the 15.09 releases, notably as mentioned,
> in the much improved "Package development" mode.
> For more, see 'New Features' below.
>
> One thing that has *not* happened yet is *.Rmd (Rmarkdown)
> support, planned via "bundling" of Vitalie Spinu's polymode.
>
> If you find errors / problems you may open an issue on
> github to report them .. or use the good ole [ESS] menu
> entry "send bug report" or equivalently M-x ess-submit-bug-report
>
> Following the beginning of the auto-generated ANNOUNCE ment file
>
> For the ESS core team,
> Martin Maechler
> ETH Zurich
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 1 ANNOUNCING ESS
> ****************
>
> The ESS Developers proudly announce the release of ESS 16.04
>
> Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) provides an intelligent, consistent
> interface between the user and the software. ESS interfaces with
> R/S-PLUS, SAS, BUGS/JAGS, Stata and other statistical analysis packages
> under the UNIX, GNU Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and other
> operating systems. ESS is a package for the GNU Emacs and XEmacs text
> editors whose features ESS uses to streamline the creation and use of
> statistical software. ESS knows the syntax and grammar of statistical
> analysis packages and provides consistent display and editing features
> based on that knowledge. ESS assists in interactive and batch execution
> of statements written in these statistical analysis languages.
>
> ESS is freely available under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
> Please read the file COPYING which comes with the distribution, for more
> information about the license. For more detailed information, please
> read the README files that come with ESS.
>
> 1.1 Getting the Latest Version
> ==============================
>
> The latest released version of ESS is always available on the web at:
> ESS web page (http://ess.r-project.org) or StatLib
> (http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/ESS/)
>
> 1.1.1 Git for ESS development
> -----------------------------
>
> For development and experimentation on new ESS features, there is now a
> GitHub branch for ESS, available at <https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS>.
>
> 1.2 Current Features
> ====================
>
> * Languages Supported:
> * S family (R and S+ AKA S-PLUS)
> * SAS
> * OpenBUGS/JAGS
> * Stata
> * Julia
> * Editing source code (S family, SAS, OpenBUGS/JAGS, Stata, Julia)
> * Syntactic indentation and highlighting of source code
> * Partial evaluation of code
> * Loading and error-checking of code
> * Source code revision maintenance
> * Batch execution (SAS, OpenBUGS/JAGS)
> * Use of imenu to provide links to appropriate functions
> * Interacting with the process (S family, SAS, Stata, Julia)
> * Command-line editing
> * Searchable Command history
> * Command-line completion of S family object names and file
> names
> * Quick access to object lists and search lists
> * Transcript recording
> * Interface to the help system
> * Transcript manipulation (S family, Stata)
> * Recording and saving transcript files
> * Manipulating and editing saved transcripts
> * Re-evaluating commands from transcript files
> * Interaction with Help Pages and other Documentation (R)
> * Fast Navigation
> * Sending Examples to running ESS process.
> * Fast Transfer to Further Help Pages
> * Help File Editing (R)
> * Syntactic indentation and highlighting of source code.
> * Sending Examples to running ESS process.
> * Previewing
>
> 1.3 Requirements
> ================
>
> ESS is most likely to work with current/recent versions of the following
> statistical packages: R/S-PLUS, SAS, Stata, OpenBUGS and JAGS.
>
> ESS supports current, and recent, stable versions of GNU Emacs
> (currently, specifically, the 23.x and 24.x series;
> alpha/beta/pre-release versions are NOT SUPPORTED). Non-Windows users
> beware: GNU Emacs 24.3 is preferable to 24.1 or 24.2: these broken
> builds suffer from bug 12463
> <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=12463> which will cause
> emacs and ESS to get progressively slower over time.
>
> Due to XEmacs lacking some features that ESS requires, ESS support of
> XEmacs ends with ESS 12.04-4. This decision will be re-visited in the
> future as XEmacs continues to sync with GNU Emacs.
>
> To build the PDF documentation, you will need a version of TeX Live
> or texinfo that includes texi2dvi (BEWARE: recent TeX Live, and some
> texinfo RPMs, do NOT include texi2dvi).
>
> 1.4 Stability
> =============
>
> All recent released versions are meant to be release-quality versions.
> While some new features are being introduced, we are cleaning up and
> improving the interface. We know that there are many remaining
> opportunities for documentation improvements, but all contributors are
> volunteers and time is precious. Patches or suggested fixes with bug
> reports are much appreciated!
>
> 1.5 Mailing List
> ================
>
> There is a mailing list for discussions and announcements relating to
> ESS. Join the list by sending an e-mail with "subscribe ess-help" (or
> "help") in the body to <ess-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch>;
> contributions to the list may be mailed to <ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>.
> Rest assured, this is a fairly low-volume mailing list.
>
> The purposes of the mailing list include
>
> * helping users of ESS to get along with it.
> * discussing aspects of using ESS on Emacs and XEmacs.
> * suggestions for improvements.
> * announcements of new releases of ESS.
> * posting small patches to ESS.
>
> 1.6 Reporting Bugs
> ==================
>
> Please send bug reports, suggestions etc. to
> <ESS-bugs at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>
> The easiest way to do this is within Emacs by typing
>
> 'M-x ess-submit-bug-report'
>
> This also gives the maintainers valuable information about your
> installation which may help us to identify or even fix the bug.
>
> If Emacs reports an error, backtraces can help us debug the problem.
> Type "M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET". Then run the
> command that causes the error and you should see a *Backtrace* buffer
> containing debug information; send us that buffer.
>
> Note that comments, suggestions, words of praise and large cash
> donations are also more than welcome.
>
> 1.7 Authors
> ===========
>
> * A.J. Rossini (mailto:blindglobe at gmail.com)
> * Richard M. Heiberger (mailto:rmh at temple.edu)
> * Kurt Hornik (mailto:Kurt.Hornik at R-project.org)
> * Martin Maechler (mailto:maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch)
> * Rodney A. Sparapani (mailto:rsparapa at mcw.edu)
> * Stephen Eglen (mailto:stephen at gnu.org)
> * Sebastian P. Luque (mailto:spluque at gmail.com)
> * Henning Redestig (mailto:henning.red at googlemail.com)
> * Vitalie Spinu (mailto:spinuvit at gmail.com)
> * Lionel Henry (mailto:lionel.hry at gmail.com)
>
> 1.8 License
> ===========
>
> The source and documentation of ESS is free software. You can
> redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
> Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
> version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
>
> ESS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
> ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License in
> the file COPYING in the same directory as this file for more details.
>
> 1.9 New Features
> ================
>
> Changes and New Features in 16.04:
>
> * ESS[R]: 'developer' functionality has been refactored. The new
> user interface consists of a single command
> 'ess-r-set-evaluation-env' bound by default to 'C-c C-t C-s'. Once
> an evaluation environment has been set with, all subsequent ESS
> evaluation will source the code into that environment. By default,
> for file within R packages the evaluation environment is set to the
> package environment. Set 'ess-r-package-auto-set-evaluation-env'
> to 'nil' to disable this.
> * ESS[R]: New 'ess-r-package-mode' This development mode provides
> features to make package development easier. Currently, most of
> the commands are based on the 'devtools' packages and are
> accessible with 'C-c C-w' prefix. See the documentation of
> 'ess-r-package-mode' function for all available commands. With
> 'C-u' prefix each command asks for extra arguments to the
> underlying devtools function. This mode is automatically enabled
> in all files within R packages and is indicated with '[pkg:NAME]'
> in the mode-line.
> * ESS[R]: Help lookup has been improved. It is now possible to get
> help for namespaced objects such as pkg::foobar. Furthermore, ESS
> recognizes more reliably when you change 'options('html_type')'.
> * ESS[R]: New specialized breakpoints for debugging magrittr pipes
> * ESS: ESS now implements a simple message passing interface to
> communicate between ESS and inferior process.
>
> Bug fixes in 16.04:
> * ESS[R]: Roxygen blocks with backtics are now correctly filled
> * ESS[R]: Don't skip breakpoints in magrittr's 'debug_pipe'
> * ESS[R]: Error highlighting now understands 'testthat' type errors
> * ESS[Julia]: Added getwd and setwd generic commands
>
>
> Changes and New Features in 15.09:
>
> * ESS[R]: The indentation logic has been refactored. It should be
> faster, more consistent and more flexible. There are three types
> of indentation settings, those starting with 'ess-offset-' give the
> actual offsets, those starting with 'ess-indent-' are control
> (commonly Boolean) variables, and those starting with 'ess-align-'
> are vertical alignment overrides which inhibit default offsets in
> specific situations. See 'ess-style-alist' for detailed
> description of the new indentation system and provided default
> indentation styles.
>
> * ESS[R]: Deprecation of old indentation settings. As a consequence
> of the indentation re-factoring 'ess-brace-imaginary-offset',
> 'ess-expression-offset' and all delimiter-specific offsets are
> deprecated. The settings for indentation of continued statements
> have been replaced by 'ess-offset-continuations'. It can be set to
> either 'cascade' or 'straight' (the default).
> 'ess-arg-function-offset' has been replaced by
> 'ess-indent-from-lhs' and has been generalised to assignments.
> This setting now works with both statement blocks and expressions
> and only takes effect for offsets set to 'prev-call' and
> 'open-delim' in order to produce a consistent indentation.
>
> * ESS: A test framework has been set up.
>
> * ESS[R]: A new RStudio style is provided to mimic as closely as
> possible R files indented via RStudio. To reproduce the setup of
> some of the RStudio users, the RStudio- style with
> 'ess-offset-arguments' set to 'prev-line' is also provided. In
> addition, the new RRR+ style is equivalent to RRR except it indents
> blocks in function calls relatively to the opening delimiter. This
> style does not try to save horizontal space and produces more
> indentation.
>
> * ESS[R]: Roxygen fields will now be indented on paragraph refilling
> in order to make the documentation more readable. You can also
> refill commented lines in the 'examples' field without squashing
> the surrounding code in the comments.
>
> * ESS[R]: ESS can now format your code! This is controlled through
> the settings 'ess-fill-calls' and 'ess-fill-continuations'. When
> activated, '(fill-paragraph)' formats your calls and your
> formulas/continuations while making sure they don't go past
> 'fill-column'. Repeated refills cycle through different styles
> (see the docstrings for more details). By default, the refilled
> region blinks. Set 'ess-blink-filling' to nil to prevent this.
>
> * ESS[R]: Fix occasional missing error location fontification in
> inferior buffers.
>
> * ESS[R]: ess-developer now correctly assigned the environment of new
> functions to the package namespace.
>
> * ESS[Julia]: ?[topic] now works in the *julia* buffer. Note that
> support for editing Julia code now depends on 'julia-mode.el' from
> the Julia project. If you install ESS from the official
> tarball/zip file, 'julia-mode.el' is already included. Otherwise,
> if you install ESS by running 'make', then the latest version of
> 'julia-mode.el' is downloaded (and so you need an active internet
> connection to install) during the installation process.
> Alternatively, if you run ESS without running 'make', then ensure
> that you have the 'julia-mode.el', which you can get easily from
> MELPA for example.
>
> * iESS: For naming inferior processes, ESS can use 'projectile''s
> project root and it does so when
> 'ess-gen-proc-buffer-name-function' is set to
> 'ess-gen-proc-buffer-name:projectile-or-simple' as by default, or
> to another value beginning with
> 'ess-gen-proc-buffer-name:projectile-*'.
>
>
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