[ESS] ess-dump-object-into-edit-buffer

Lionel Henry lionel.hry at gmail.com
Thu Apr 12 11:10:05 CEST 2018


We now have continuous integration with Travis btw.
I'll look into adding r-devel to the test set to catch
this kind of errors before new R releases.

Though we still need to significantly improve the test
coverage of ESS...

> On 12 avr. 2018, at 10:52, Lionel Henry <lionel.hry at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I think we should adjust the max lines before calling dump().
> In the mean time you can do it manually:
> 
>    options(deparse.max.lines = NA)
> 
> The reason for the change of behaviour is this change in R:
> 
>    https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/201ddbd16e8f410c469dcd4695471c0bedd65dd5
> 
> dput() and dump() should probably set this option to NA themselves.
> 
> Lionel
> 
> 
> 
>> On 12 avr. 2018, at 09:56, Patrick Connolly <p_connolly at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for the response, however, if I start Emacs with a '-q' none of
>> my ~/.emacs file is read, so Emacs doesn't know how to start R.  More
>> to the point, I'm unable to run R within Emacs any other way.
>> 
>> I gather there is a way of applying individual lines of the .emacs
>> files but a bear with a small brain doesn't know how to do that (or
>> where to look in the manual how to do it),
>> 
>> It would appear, if it doesn't reproduce, that the problem is
>> somewhere in my .emacs file.  That's a hodge-podge of various things
>> I've picked up over the decades so it wouldn't be surprising to find
>> some incompatibilities.
>> 
>> Ideas appreciated.
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, 11-Apr-2018 at 07:44AM -0400, Ista Zahn wrote:
>> 
>> |> I can't reproduce it with the latest ESS from melpa. Can you give
>> |> reproduction steps starting with
>> |> 
>> |> emacs -q
>> |> 
>> |> ?
>> |> 
>> |> --Ista
>> |> 
>> |> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 4:58 AM, Patrick Connolly
>> |> <p_connolly at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
>> |> > For a long time I used to be able to use
>> |> >
>> |> > ess-dump-object-into-edit-buffer
>> |> >
>> |> > to create a buffer that could be used to edit the designated function
>> |> > from anywhere on the search path to make a local version.
>> |> >
>> |> > Starting at about ess-15.x, only the first 5 or so lines of code is
>> |> > made available which I took to be a bug that would be fixed.  However,
>> |> > I was mistaken.  I installed ess-17.11 and it's still the same.  Being
>> |> > a bear with only a small brain, I can't imagine what use that would be
>> |> > if it's what is intended.
>> |> >
>> |> > Could it be that there is an additional setting that allows all of the
>> |> > function (including comments) to be dumped into that buffer?  Perhaps,
>> |> > more difficult to track down, I have something else in my ~/.emacs
>> |> > file that is incompatible.
>> |> >
>> |> > TIA for suggestions.
>> |> >
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