winjava device on S-Plus 6.1 for Windows

[John.Gavin at ubsw.com]

Hi,

Rich Heiberger [mailto:rmh at surfer.sbm.temple.edu] wrote

> Insightful has introduced the library(winjava) 
> and the java device for S-Plus 6.1 for Windows.
> This new device allows the ESS user to run S-Plus 6.1
> inside an *S+6* buffer in emacs,

I would like to use this new feature and have recently
moved to SPlus 6.1 on NT4,
but am stuck with a bug that I can't resolve.

After following the instructions in the email below,
to start SPlus within an *S+6* buffer,
I get the error 'Spawning child process: invalid argument',
as Emacs is about to start the SPlus session.

The ess buffer reads

------------
(Sqpe+6): ess-dialect=nil, buf=*scratch*
(inferior-ess 0): ess-start-args=nil 
ess-setq-vars-default 0: ess-language=Initial, -dialect=nil, 
  buf=*ESS*, comint..echoes=nil, comint..sender=comint-simple-send
ess-setq-vars-default 1: ess-language=S, -dialect=S+6, 
  buf=*ESS*, comint..echoes=nil, comint..sender=comint-simple-send
(inf-ess 1): lang=S, dialect=S+6, tmp-dialect=S+6, buf=*scratch*
(inf-ess 1.1): procname=S+6 temp-dialect=S+6, buf-name=*S+6* 
(inferior-ess) Method #3 start=s:/qrms/stats/r/ buf=*S+6*
(ess-setq-vars-LOCAL): language=S, dialect=S+6, buf=*S+6*, 
comint..echoes=nil, comint..sender=comint-simple-send
(inf-ess 2.1): ess-language=S, ess-dialect=S+6 buf=*S+6* 
(inf-ess 2.2): start args = nil, inf-ess-start-args=ALWAYS_PROMPT=X 
(inf-ess finish [S(S+6), 
  c:/progra~1/insigh~1/splus6/cmd/Sqpe.exe(nil,nil)]
(ess-multi 0):  inf-ess-start-args=ALWAYS_PROMPT=X, comint-..echoes=nil
(i-ess 1): buf=*S+6*, lang=S, comint..echo=nil, 
  comint..sender=comint-simple-send,
(i-ess 2): buf=*S+6*, lang=S, comint..echo=t, 
  comint..sender=inferior-ess-input-sender,
(ess-setq-vars-LOCAL): language=S, dialect=S+6, buf=*S+6*, 
comint..echoes=t, comint..sender=inferior-ess-input-sender
(i-ess 3): curr-buf=*S+6*, comint..echo=t, comint..
  sender=inferior-ess-input-sender,
(ess-multi post inf-ess: start-args=ALWAYS_PROMPT=X, comint-echoes=t
(ess-multi 1):  start-args=ALWAYS_PROMPT=X 
Making Process...Buf *S+6*, Proc S+6, 
  Prog c:/progra~1/insigh~1/splus6/cmd/Sqpe.exe
 Start File=nil, Args= ALWAYS_PROMPT=X.
---------------

ESS seems to be looking for 
'c:/progra~1/insigh~1/splus6/cmd/Sqpe.exe' although 
the only splus folder in my PATH is 'c:\etc\splus6.1\cmd'.
Where in ESS is 'c:/progra~1/insigh~1/splus6/cmd/Sqpe.exe' specified?

Assuming ESS is correctly finding sqpe.exe in 'c:\etc\splus6.1\cmd'
(despite the output shown above) and is spawning a child process, 
what arguments can I try specifying, to avoid the 'invalid argument' message?
(At the moment, the only argument that I enter is 
the name of the directory where I want SPlus to start.)

I am using GNU Emacs 20.7.1, ESS 5.1.24, SPlus V6.1 on NT4 SP6.

Note that I can link a *.s file within ESS/Emacs to an existing 
SPlus session, as per method a) in Richard's email below,
but I would prefer SPlus to be inside a buffer in emacs.

Regards,

John.

John Gavin <john.gavin at ubsw.com>,
Quantitative Risk Models and Statistics,
UBS Warburg, 100 Liverpool Street (6th floor),
London EC2M 2RH, UK.
Phone +44 (0) 207 567 4289
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Heiberger [mailto:rmh at surfer.sbm.temple.edu]
Sent: 11 October 2002 05:50
To: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: winjava device on S-Plus 6.1 for Windows

Insightful has introduced the library(winjava) and the java device for
S-Plus 6.1 for Windows.  This new device allows the ESS user to run S-Plus 6.1
inside an *S+6* buffer in emacs, in the normal style that Unix users expect,
and to get interactive graphics.

   Start S-Plus 6.1 from emacs with the M-x Sqpe+6 command.
   
   Open the new library with
       library(winjava)
   I recommend setting the Graph Window Options to "New Page".
   sqpe	
   Behave as you would on a Unix machine.

Prior to 6.1, S-Plus on Windows was limited to one of two behaviors:

a. The GUI, with interactive graphics and one-way communication
to the S-Plus Commands Window as described in the ESS file
     doc/README.SPLUS4WIN.
In summary, the normal C-c C-n and C-c C-r commands send lines from
the myfile.s buffer to the S-Plus Commands window and the results
appear in the S-Plus Commands window.  The read-only *S+6* buffer is
necessary for the communication.

b. The familiar Unix-style text-based interaction in the *S+6* buffer
(using M-x Sqpe+6) but without interactive graphics.  Static graphics to
a postscript driver was available.

Further discussion is in the article doc/ess-intro.pdf (in section 3.2
Interactive Processing) of the update ESS-5.1.24.  I recommend that
you update to ESS-5.1.24.

Rich
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