[ESS] ESS-mode fails to start S-Plus in Linux

[Vitalie Spinu]

Hmm. I see the same. There is indeed too much windows machinery in that code. I
am afraid 18.10 is pretty broken regarding Splus functionality. Even ess-remote
doesn't work.

At the moment ESS is being heavily trimmed and most of the old S+ code is
gone, but it seem to work. Is trying master from git an option for you?

Starting Splus in the shell and then doing M-x ess-remote should at least give
you some basic evaluation capabilities.


  Vitalie



>> On Mon, Nov 19 2018 14:20, Kim Pilegaard wrote:

> Dear Vitalie,

> OK, I find out how to get the debugger output:

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "The emacs variable ‘inferior-S+-program’ does
> not point to S-Plus 6 or 7 or 8.  Please add ‘splus[678]?/cmd’ (expand the
> ‘[678]?’ to match your setup) to your ‘exec-path’ or specify the complete
> path to ‘Splus.exe’ in the variable ‘inferior-S+-program’ in your
> ‘.emacs’ file.")
>   signal(error ("The emacs variable ‘inferior-S+-program’ does\nnot point to S-Plus 6 or 7 or 8.  Please add ‘splus[678]?/cmd’ (expand the\n‘[678]?’ to match your setup) to your ‘exec-path’ or specify the complete\npath to ‘Splus.exe’ in the variable ‘inferior-S+-program’ in your\n‘.emacs’ file."))
>   error("The emacs variable `inferior-S+-program' does\nnot point to S-Plus 6 or 7 or 8.  Please add `splus[678]?/cmd' (expand the\n`[678]?' to match your setup) to your `exec-path' or specify the complete\npath to `Splus.exe' in the variable `inferior-S+-program' in your\n`.emacs' file.")
>   S()
>   funcall-interactively(S)
>   call-interactively(S record nil)
>   command-execute(S record)
>   execute-extended-command(nil "S" "S")
>   funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "S" "S")
>   call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
>   command-execute(execute-extended-command)

> Kind regards,
> Kim

> On 19/11/2018, 15:15 , "Kim Pilegaard" <kipi using env.dtu.dk> wrote:

>     Dear Vitalie,

>     I assume you mean, when running with ess-18.10.

>     The value of ´inferior-S+-program is´ "Splus".

>     The error I get is:

>     S: The emacs variable ‘inferior-S+-program’ does
>     not point to S-Plus 6 or 7 or 8.  Please add ‘splus[678]?/cmd’ (expand the
>     ‘[678]?’ to match your setup) to your ‘exec-path’ or specify the complete
>     path to ‘Splus.exe’ in the variable ‘inferior-S+-program’ in your
>     ‘.emacs’ file.

>     Looks like ess thinks I am running under windows and not Linux. I am running Linux in a virtualbox under Mac OSX.

>     When executing M-x toggle-debug-on-error RET, I just get the message: 

>     Debug on Error enabled globally

>     Many thanks for your help,
>     Kim

>     On 19/11/2018, 14:22 , "Vitalie Spinu" <spinuvit using gmail.com> wrote:

>         Hi Kim,

>         What is the value of inferior-S+-program and what is the exact error that you
>         get? Could you please provide the traceback (M-x toggle-debug-on-error RET).

>           Vitalie

>         >> On Sat, Nov 17 2018 09:08, Kim Pilegaard via ESS-help wrote:

>         > When trying to start S-plus 6.2.1 for linux using Emacs 25.2.1 lucid and ess-17.11.2 under Elementary OS 5.0 (based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS), I get the following error:

>         > ess-command: Wrong number of arguments: #[(com &optional buf sleep) "Á!" [com ess-eval-linewise] 2
>         > ("/usr/share/emacs25/site-lisp/ess/ess-dde.elc" . 4843)], 7

>         > It seems that an S+ process is running, but when I try to issue a command, I get this error:

>         > ess-get-process: No ESS process is associated with this buffer now

>         > I tried with ess-18.10, but got another error telling that it could not find the
>         > Splus program. The executable is /usr/local/bin/Splus which is covered by both
>         > PATH and exec-path. There are no problems running R with either of the ess
>         > versions.

>         > How do I fix it?

>         > Kind regards,
>         > Kim

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