ESS 5.1.17 released. TESTING RELEASE!
A.J. Rossini
rossini at blindglobe.net
Tue Oct 10 21:42:22 CEST 2000
I'm releasing ESS 5.1.17 . This is a testing release, to see if a
critical change (defining variables to be modifiable by "customize")
breaks anything else.
I highly recommend against removing your working version of 5.1.16 in
favor of this, especially in a production/working environment. On the
other hand, it would do the ESS developers a good deal of good to hear
verified reports of this NOT breaking your system.
Here's the release announcement.
ANNOUNCING ESS
**************
Annoucing the release of ESS-5.1.17 (Emacs Speaks Statistics).
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ESS is an Emacs package which provides a standard interface between
statistical programs and statistical processes. It is intended to
provide assistance for interactive statistical programming and data
analysis, and was is based on and extends the capabilities of S-mode.
The code is freely available but is not in the public domain. It is
distributed under the GNU GPL. Please read the file COPYING which comes
with the distribution, for more information about the license.
For more detailed information about ESS's abilities, please read the
file README with the distribution.
And to help remove any further confusion:
The name is __ESS__. Not ESS-mode.
Thank you :-).
New Features
============
Changes/New Features in 5.1.17:
* Documentation for Windows Installation (Rich Heiberger
(<rmh at surfer.stat.temple.edu>))
* removal of ess-vars, finalization of customize support (in the
sense that there is no more use of ess-vars, but that we need to
fix ess-cust) (AJ Rossini (<rossini at u.washington.edu>))
* Many small (and large) fixes/contributions (MMaechler,
(<maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>)).
* addition of the "S-equal" variable and provide M-x ess-add-MM-keys
a way to remap "_" to 'S-equal, typically " <- ", but
configurable. (MMaechler, (<maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>)).
Changes/New Features in 5.1.16:
* BUG FIXES
* Better SAS support
Changes/New Features in 5.1.15:
* BUG FIXES
Changes/New Features in 5.1.14:
* Yet more fixes to SAS mode, (Rich Heiberger
(<rmh at surfer.stat.temple.edu>) and Rodney Sparapani
<spara002 at onyx.dcri.duke.edu>)).
* Customize support (for most Emacsen which support it) (AJRossini,
(<rossini at biostat.washington.edu>)
* ARC and ViSta support out of the box, and fixes for XLispStat
(AJRossini, <rossini at biostat.washington.edu>)
Changes/New Features in 5.1.13:
* Version numbering finally all depending on the ./VERSION file,
thanks to Martin Maechler.
* Yet more fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rich Heiberger
(<rmh at surfer.stat.temple.edu>).
Changes/New Features in 5.1.12:
* Splus 5.1 stabilized, thanks to Martin Maechler, Bill Venables,
Chuck Taylor, and others.
* More fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rodney Sparapani
(<spara002 at duke.edu>) and Rich Heiberger
(<rmh at surfer.stat.temple.edu>).
Changes/New Features in 5.1.11:
* More fixes to Stata mode, thanks to Brendan Halpin
(<brendan at essex.ac.uk>)
* fixed bugs in ESS-elsewhere, thanks to many testers
* README.SPLUS4WIN has DETAILED instructions for S-PLUS 2000, thanks
to David Brahm (<brahm at alum.mit.edu>).
* Fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rodney Sparapani
(<spara002 at duke.edu>)
Changes/New Features in 5.1.10:
* More fixes to Stata mode
* primitive generic version of ESS-elsewhere
* Small fixes to SAS/Stata.
Changes/New Features in 5.1.9:
* Stata mode works
* Literate Data Analysis using Noweb works
Changes/New Features in 5.1.8:
* Bug fixes
* R documentation mode defaults changed
Changes/New Features in 5.1.2:
* able to use inferior iESS mode to communicate directly with a
running S-Plus 4.x process using the Microsoft DDE protocol. We
use the familiar (from Unix ESS) C-c C-n and related key sequences
to send lines from the S-mode file to the inferior S process. We
continue to edit S input files in ESS[S] mode and transcripts of
previous S sessions in ESS Transcript mode. All three modes know
the S language, syntax, and indentation patterns and provide the
syntactic highlighting that eases the programming tasks.
Current Features
================
* Languages Supported:
* S dialects (S 3/4, S-PLUS 3.x/4.x/5.x, and R)
* LispStat dialects (XLispStat, ViSta under development)
* SAS
* Stata
* SPSS dialects (SPSS, Fiasco (GNU project)) (under development)
* SCA (under development)
* Editing source code (S, LispStat, SAS)
* Syntactic indentation and highlighting of source code
* Partial evaluations of code
* Loading and error-checking of code
* Source code revision maintenance
* Interacting with the process (S, LispStat, SAS)
* Command-line editing
* Searchable Command history
* Command-line completion of S object names and file names
* Quick access to object lists and search lists
* Transcript recording
* Interface to the help system
* Transcript manipulation (S3, S+3, S4, R, XLispStat)
* Recording and saving transcript files
* Manipulating and editing saved transcripts
* Re-evaluating commands from transcript files
* Help File Editing (R)
* Syntactic indentation and highlighting of source code.
* Sending Examples to running ESS process.
* Previewing
Stability
=========
Versions 5.1.x are meant as a beta-level releases. While some bugs
are fixed from 5.0, others have been introduced, especially with
regards to new features. See the file Doc/TODO for details. Bug
reports are solicited; see the BUGS section below. Patches or
suggested coding fixes with bug reports are much appreciated!
Some versions tend to be more stable than others, and for new support
(Microsoft support), 5.1.16 is the current favorite.
Requirements
============
ESS version 5.1.n (n >= 2) requires Emacs version 19.29 or later, or
version XEmacs 19.14 or later. It has been most thoroughly tested with:
* S-PLUS versions 3.3, 3.4, 4.5, 5.0
* R versions >=0.49
* XLispStat versions >=3.50
* S4
* SAS
* Stata >=6.0
on the following platforms
* SunOS (all)
* Solaris (all)
* SGI (all)
* Linux (S-PLUS 5.0, R, XLispStat, S4, Stata 6.0)
* Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT (SPLUS 4.5)
with the following Emacsen:
* Emacs 19.29, 19.34, 20.3, 20.4, XEmacs 19.16, XEmacs 20.4, XEmacs
21.0
* Emacs 19.28 with SAS (with additional modifications)
* NTEmacs 20.3.1 with S-PLUS 4.5.
It may need some work with other configurations. We include
configuration suggestions for emacs 19.28 in Doc/README-19.28. These
are the changes we made in order to use ESS with SAS on a Digital Alpha
running Emacs 19.28.
Getting the Latest Version
==========================
The latest versions of ESS are always available by WWW from:
`http://ess.stat.wisc.edu/'
`ftp://ess.stat.wisc.edu/pub/ESS/'
The HTML version of the documentation can be found at:
`http://stat.ethz.ch/ESS/'
The latest (no more than 24 hours behind the developers) version of
ESS can also be retrieved using anonymous CVS. Details on this are
forthcoming.
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.
Note that comments, suggestions, words of praise and large cash
donations are also more than welcome.
Mailing Lists
=============
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 for GNU Emacs and XEmacs.
* suggestions for improvements.
* announcements of new [beta] releases of ESS.
* posting small patches to ESS.
Authors
=======
* A.J. Rossini (http://www.biostat.washington.edu/~rossini/)
<rossini at u.washington.edu>
* Richard M. Heiberger
(http://www.sbm.temple.edu/departments/statistics/)
<rmh at fisher.stat.temple.edu>
* Kurt Hornik (http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik)
<hornik at ci.tuwien.ac.at>
* Martin Maechler (http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/)
<maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
* Rodney Sparapani (see http://www.duke.edu/~spara002/)
<rodney.sparapani at duke.edu>
License
=======
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.
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