[ESS] Beta testing for ESS 5.2.9

[John Fox]

Dear Martin,

I briefly tried out ESS 5.2.9 under XEmacs on a Windows XP Pro system and it
appears to work fine.

Regards,
 John

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John Fox
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4M4
905-525-9140x23604
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of 
> Martin Maechler
> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 2:50 AM
> To: ESS-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [ESS] Beta testing for ESS 5.2.9
> 
> Dear ESS users,
> 
> we are planning to release ESS 5.2.9  in a few days.
> It currently has
> 
> -----------------------------
> 
> Changes/New Features in 5.2.9:
>    * ESS[R] for Windows:  the \ directory character bug with 
> respect to
>      ess-load-file has been eradicated.
> 
>    * iESS[SAS]: `C-c C-r' and `C-c C-b' once again work as 
> intended and
>      documented.
> 
>    * ESS[S]: M-x ess-fix-EQ-assign is a bit more agressive.
> 
>    * ESS[S]: Imenu now also shows setAs(), etc.
> 
>    * ESS[R]: R function pattern enhanced with underlying code 
> such that
>      `M-C-a' (`ess-beginning-of-function') etc now work for many more
>      cases, including S4 method definitions.
> 
>    * iESS[R]: myOwnhelp(1) no longer wrongly triggers help(1).
> 
>    * ESS[R]: Improved detection of bogus help buffers: valid help
>      buffers containing with the string "no 
> documentation"(e.g. contour)
>      were being treated as bogus.
> 
>    * ESS[R]: In R help buffers, if `options("help.try.all.packages" =
>      TRUE)' then `?rlm' will list which packages rlm is defined in.
>      This help  buffer is not bogus, but instead is now relabelled
>      "*help[R](rlm in  packages)*".
> 
>    * ESS[STA]: add "//" as comment starting character to syntax-table.
> 
> -----------------------------
> 
> We ESS developers have been using this version for a while 
> and not found (new) problems; however, our usages are limited 
> to "our own ways" and to the platforms we work on. Hence, we 
> would be glad if some of you could beta test ESS, 
> particularly on platforms that we don't use ourselves, e.g.,
> - XEmacs on Windows
> - everything on MacOS X
> - versions of emacs older than 21.3, ...
> 
> There is at least one known (but rare) bug that doesn't seem 
> easily and quickly fixable, namely the one reported by David 
> Reitter on "pop-up-frames and opening windows" in the thread 
> started on
> 17 Aug 2005.
> 
> You can always get the current development version of ESS from
>     https://svn.R-project.org/ESS/trunk/
> or  https://svn.R-project.org/ESS/trunk/lisp/ for the emacs lisp files
>     (you need to acknowledge a certificate once)
> 
> Either replace all your *.el files in your current ESS 
> version's ./lisp/ directory with the development ones (and 
> remove any *.elc you might have!), or get the full thing, 
> most easily a subversion client, using something
>     svn co https://svn.R-project.org/ESS/trunk ess-beta and 
> make sure you point your emacs to the new ess-lisp directory 
> by something like
> 
>     (require 'ess-site "............../ess-beta/lisp/ess-site")
> 		        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 			correct path
> --
> 
> Feedback is very welcome.
> 
> Martin Maechler
> Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH Zurich SWITZERLAND
> 
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