On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Paul,
>
>  >> Paul Johnson <pauljohn32@gmail.com>
>  >> on Tue, 14 May 2013 10:30:54 -0500 wrote:
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> [...]
>
>
> So I guess you will have to wait a couple of weeks till I properly
> finish polymode. It is already pretty stable so you can give a dev
> version a try.
>

Thanks very much.

For people like me who use Emacs but don't pay too much attention to it,
can you point me to some documents to explain what ESS developer mode and
polymode are "for".  I mean, even the most basic explanation of what they
are about would help. Have you made any slide show "sales pitches" for
these things to show what they are doing, for example?

Until yesterday, I thought ESS developer mode was for people developing
ESS. :)  If you remember the American comedian Andrew Dice Clay, I'm saying
"treat me like the fool that I am".

If one or the other helps with this problem, for example, I will be
encouraged to read more and test out what you are doing.

Today I was working on a package that has quite a few non exported
functions. The last version of the package is installed.  In Emacs-ESS, I
want to fix one of the functions that is exported. I find I cannot step
through it line by line because the interactive session cannot find the
non-exported functions. To get around that, I have to go source the files
that have the non exported functions so that they are "in" the session, no
longer in the package.  I find that using non-exported functions within
do.call is especially troublesome.

Clearly I'm not understanding the R frame/environment situation.  Is Ess
developer mode intended to help with that kind of thing?


>
>     Vitalie
>



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