R not running inside emacs any longer

[Douglas Bates]

Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu> writes:

> Faheem Mitha <faheem at email.unc.edu> writes:
> 
> > Dear People,
> > 
> > I'm running Debian (2.2r3) with 
> > 
> > ||/ Name           Version        Description
> > +++-==============-==============-============================================
> > ii  ess            5.1.18-0       Emacs statistics mode, supporting R,S  
> > ii  r-base         1.3.1-1        `GNU S' - A language and environment for
> > ii  emacs21        21.0-0.1       The GNU Emacs editor.
> > ii  emacs20        20.7-2         The GNU Emacs editor.
> > ii  xemacs21       21.1.10-5      Editor and kitchen sink
> > 
> > The ESS and R binaries are by Douglas Bates.
> > 
> > It is extremely puzzling, but R/ESS was working just fine with GNU Emacs
> > 20.7 and after I posted to this list back in late July, GNU Emacs 21
> > prerelease was working just fine too.
> > 
> > However, when I checked it recently, R would not run any longer on either
> > of these GNU Emacs versions. When I try to run R I get "selecting deleted
> > buffer". I recognise this error message from when I have deleted the ess
> > buffer accidentally, and sure enough there does not seem to be an ess
> > buffer on startup.
> > 
> > However, R works fine with xemacs and also on the console. Go figure. Does
> > anyone have any idea what I might have screwed up?
> 
> The archive at http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian now has
> ess_5.1.19-0_all.deb in it.  Try upgrading to that.

I should have mentioned that this is in the woody or testing
distribution.  I'm not sure if you will be able to install it under
2.2r3.  Let me know if you want me to try to build a version under
2.2r3 (or you could download the sources and try to build the package
yourself).
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