R not running inside emacs any longer

[Faheem Mitha]

On 9 Sep 2001, Douglas Bates wrote:

> Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu> writes:
> 
> > Faheem Mitha <faheem at email.unc.edu> writes:

[snip]
> > > 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.
[snip]

> > 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).

Dear Dr. Bates,

I compiled ESS 5.1.19 on potato from your deb sources in testing without
problems. It complains a little at installation time when doing the byte
compiling but appears to behave normally. R with GNU Emacs 20.7 and 21
seems to be working normally again. As Rich Heiberger wrote, the ESS
buffer is recreated if accidentally deleted, which is a nice feature.

It might be a good idea to add a deb for 5.1.19 to the potato directory so
that people get automatic upgrades when doing apt-get upgrade.

Why was this happening, anyway? Were the new versions of R breaking
something?

Thanks a lot for the help and fast reply.

                                    Best regards, Faheem Mitha.

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