[ESS] Release of ESS 5.3.0

Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com
Sat Apr 8 16:27:25 CEST 2006


From: Martin Maechler
> 
> Dear ESS users,
> we have just released version 5.3.0 of ESS;
>    --> https://ESS.r-project.org/downloads/ess/

The "https" gave me problems.  http://ess.r-project.org/downloads/ess/ works
though.

Andy

 
> We've decided to increase the minor version number
> to signal that ESS has been improved considerably since the 
> release of the first 5.2.x versions almost two years ago.
> 
> Improvements and new features since version 5.2.12 include
> 
> - In S-language (including R) modes: new key bindings for new 
>     "ess-eval-*" commands to send a paragraph or function to the
>     S process, bound to C-c C-p and C-c C-c respectively.
>     The latter might become the new "standard command" for
>     "running through" *.R or *.S scripts.
> - S-language help-mode: section navigation and other features
>     now work correctly also in Windows or when R and S-plus are
>     used simultaneously.
> - S/R: new function `ess-toggle-S-assign-key' allows to assign the
>     " <- " insertion to an arbitrary key.
> 
> For more, see the  "New Features" section below.
> 
> For the ESS core team (see "Authors" below),
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
> 
> 
> -------------------- start of "ANNOUNCE" file (part of ESS) 
> ----------------
> 
> 1 ANNOUNCING ESS
> ****************
> 
> The ESS Developers proudly announce the release of ESS
> 
>    5.3.0
> 
>    Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) provides an intelligent, 
> consistent interface between the user and the software.  ESS 
> interfaces with S-PLUS, R, SAS, BUGS and other statistical 
> analysis packages under the Unix, Microsoft Windows, and 
> Apple Mac OS operating systems.  ESS is a package for the GNU 
> Emacs and XEmacs text editors whose features ESS uses to 
> streamline the creation and use of statistical software.  ESS 
> knows the syntax and grammar of statistical analysis packages 
> and provides consistent display and editing features based on 
> that knowledge.  ESS assists in interactive and batch 
> execution of statements written in these statistical analysis 
> languages.
> 
>    ESS is freely available under the GNU General Public 
> License (GPL). Please read the file COPYING which comes with 
> the distribution, for more information about the license. For 
> more detailed information, please read the README files that 
> come with ESS.
> 
> 1.1 Getting the Latest Version
> ==============================
> 
> The latest released version of ESS is always available on the 
> web at: ESS web page (http://ess.r-project.org) or StatLib
> (http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/ESS/)
> 
>    The latest development version of ESS is available via 
> `https://svn.R-project.org/ESS/', the ESS Subversion 
> repository.  If you have a Subversion client (see 
> `http://subversion.tigris.org/'), you can download the sources using:
>      % svn checkout https://svn.r-project.org/ESS/trunk PATH
>    which will put the ESS files into directory PATH.  Later, 
> within that directory, `svn update' will bring that directory 
> up to date. Windows-based tools such as TortoiseSVN are also 
> available for downloading the files.  Alternatively, you can 
> browse the sources with a web browser at: ESS SVN site 
> (https://svn.r-project.org/ESS/trunk).
> However, please use a subversion client instead to minimize 
> the load when retrieving.
> 
>    If you remove other versions of ESS from your emacs 
> load-path, you can then use the development version by adding 
> the following to .emacs:
> 
>      (load "/path/to/ess-svn/lisp/ess-site.el")
> 
>    Note that https is required, and that the SSL certificate 
> for the Subversion server of the R project is
> 
>      Certificate information:
>       - Hostname: svn.r-project.org
>       - Valid: from Jul 16 08:10:01 2004 GMT until Jul 14 
> 08:10:01 2014 GMT
>       - Issuer: Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich, 
> Zurich, Switzerland, CH
>       - Fingerprint: 
> c9:5d:eb:f9:f2:56:d1:04:ba:44:61:f8:64:6b:d9:33:3f:93:6e:ad
> 
> (currently, there is no "trusted certificate").  You can 
> accept this certificate permanently and will not be asked 
> about it anymore.
> 
> 1.2 Current Features
> ====================
> 
>    * Languages Supported:
>         * S family (S 3/4, S-PLUS 3.x/4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x, and R)
> 
>         * SAS
> 
>         * BUGS
> 
>         * Stata
> 
>         * XLispStat including Arc and ViSta
> 
>    * Editing source code (S family, SAS, BUGS, XLispStat)
>         * Syntactic indentation and highlighting of source code
> 
>         * Partial evaluation of code
> 
>         * Loading and error-checking of code
> 
>         * Source code revision maintenance
> 
>         * Batch execution (SAS, BUGS)
> 
>         * Use of imenu to provide links to appropriate functions
> 
>    * Interacting with the process (S family, SAS, XLispStat)
>         * Command-line editing
> 
>         * Searchable Command history
> 
>         * Command-line completion of S family object names and file
>           names
> 
>         * Quick access to object lists and search lists
> 
>         * Transcript recording
> 
>         * Interface to the help system
> 
>    * Transcript manipulation (S family, 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
> 
> 1.3 Requirements
> ================
> 
> ESS has been tested with
> 
>    * R >=0.49
> 
>    * S-PLUS 3.3-4, 4.5, 5.0-1, 6.0-2, 7.0, 2000
> 
>    * S4
> 
>    * SAS >=6.12
> 
>    * BUGS 0.5, 0.603
> 
>    * Stata >=6.0
> 
>    * XLispStat >=3.50
> 
>    on the following platforms
> 
>    * Linux (all)
> 
>    * Solaris/SunOS (all)
> 
>    * Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP (R, SPLUS 4.5/6.0-2/7.0/2000,
>      SAS and BUGS)
> 
>    * Apple Mac OS (SAS for OS 9 and R for OS X)
> 
>    with the following versions of emacs
> 
>    * GNU Emacs 20.3-7, 21.1, 21.3-4, 22.0.50-pretesting
> 
>    * XEmacs 21.0, 21.1.13-14, 21.4.0-8, 21.4.9-13(1), 21.4.14-15,
>      21.4.17-18, 21.5.23
> 
>    ---------- Footnotes ----------
> 
>    (1) require the files.el patch to revert-buffer for the 
> Local Variables updating problem
> 
> 1.4 Stability
> =============
> 
> Versions 5.2.x are meant to be release-quality versions.  
> While some new features are being introduced, we are cleaning 
> up and improving the interface.  We know about some remaining 
> documentation inconsistencies. Patches or suggested fixes 
> with bug reports are much appreciated!
> 
> 1.5 Mailing List
> ================
> 
> 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 on Emacs and XEmacs.
> 
>    *  suggestions for improvements.
> 
>    *  announcements of new releases of ESS.
> 
>    *  posting small patches to ESS.
> 
> 1.6 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.
> 
>    If Emacs reports an error, backtraces can help us debug 
> the problem. Type "M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t 
> RET".  Then run the command that causes the error and you 
> should see a *Backtrace* buffer containing debug information; 
> send us that buffer.
> 
>    Note that comments, suggestions, words of praise and large 
> cash donations are also more than welcome.
> 
> 1.7 Authors
> ===========
> 
>    * A.J. Rossini (mailto:blindglobe at gmail.com)
> 
>    * Richard M. Heiberger (mailto:rmh at temple.edu)
> 
>    * Kurt Hornik (mailto:Kurt.Hornik at R-project.org)
> 
>    * Martin Maechler (mailto:maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch)
> 
>    * Rodney A. Sparapani (mailto:rsparapa at mcw.edu)
> 
>    * Stephen Eglen (mailto:stephen at gnu.org)
> 
> 1.8 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.
> 
> 1.9 New Features
> ================
> 
> Changes/New Features in 5.3.0:
>    * ESS[BUGS]: sanely re-format statistical output, `.bog'), from
>      scientific notation to numbers rounded with 4 decimal places with
>      `M-x ess-bugs-sci-round-to-4-dp'.
> 
>    * The keys for navigating among section headings in help buffers
>      worked, but only for one language per session; they should now
>      work for multiple languages.  (They were also broken on Windows
>      machines.)
> 
>    * ESS[S] long standing buglets in the internal logic for loading
>      lisp code on Windows.  Particularly fixed behavior in help mode
>      with S-plus GUI.
> 
>    * New variable, `ess-use-inferior-program-name-in-buffer-name',
>      which enables using the executable name instead of the dialect
>      name for R. Feature request.
> 
>    * ESS[S] `ess-execute-screen-options' now also works correctly when
>      there is more than one window *side-by-side* in the same 
> frame and
>      runs in the correct buffer also when there is more than one S
>      buffer.
> 
>    * iESS[S] new functions `ess-eval-paragraph-and-step' and
>      `ess-eval-function-or-paragraph-and-step' are bound to keys  `C-c
>      C-p' and `C-c C-c' respectively and to the menu in  
> ESS-mode; also
>      bound in the help mode (for evaluating examples).
> 
>    * ESS[S] new function `ess-toggle-S-assign-key' allows to 
> assign the
>      " <- " insertion to an arbitrary key.
> 
>    Changes/New Features in 5.2.12:
>    * ESS[SAS]: `M-;' fixed, but the XEmacs function `comment-dwim' may
>      be broken, if so, use `M-x comment-region' and `M-x
>      uncomment-region' instead; only valid PROCs are 
> fontified which is
>      very helpful finding syntax errors (currently supported: BASE,
>      ETS, FSP, GRAPH, IML, INSIGHT and STAT); the "feature" where
>      `F'-keys take you to an empty buffer when the requested
>      destination is a file that does not exist has been fixed, now the
>      request results in a no-op.  Further, sas-mode now also works in
>      simple terminals.
> 
>    * Rterm/Cygwin combination works under Microsoft Windows.
> 
>    * ESS[R]: internal calls use baseenv() instead of NULL and define
>      'baseenv' where needed.
> 
>    * New experimental support for installing ESS.  See the file
>      `lisp/ess-install.el'.
> 
>    Changes/New Features in 5.2.11:
>    * ESS Info entry and `dir' handled more effectively for GNU Emacs
>      users
> 
>    * ESS[SAS]: temporary files created for batch submission 
> of a region
>      are now named based on the current file; see `ess-sas-file-root'
>      for details; all `lag' and `dif' functions now fontified 
> correctly
> 
>    * iESS[SAS]: fixed a few nagging bugs, however, still does not
>      appear to work at this time; please let us know if you have any
>      ideas.
> 
>    * ESS[S]: Support for running other versions of Splus has 
> been added
>      for unix.  Two new variables, `ess-s-versions' and
>      `ess-s-versions-list', are used to tell ESS what other 
> versions of
>      Splus you would like to run.
> 
>    Changes/New Features in 5.2.10:
>    * ESS[R]: ess-r-versions can no longer be customized (since the
>      customization was not taking effect unless customizations were
>      loaded before ESS).  Its value has been changed so that it will
>      also find R executables beginning "R-devel" and "R-patched".  If
>      you wish to change this variable, it must be set in your `.emacs'
>      before ESS is loaded.
> 
>    * Installation with GNU Make enhanced:  unix and unix-like 
> operating
>      systems will now be able to install ESS for all users in either a
>      GNU Emacs site-lisp or an XEmacs package configuration by editing
>      `lisp/ess-site.el' and `Makeconf' accordingly, then issuing `make
>      install'
> 
>    * ESS[S]: Filename completion (inside strings) now also works in
>      XEmacs for R and S-plus.
> 
>    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.
> 
>    Changes/New Features in 5.2.8:
>    * iESS: [Tab] completes *file* names "inside string" as in earlier
>      (<= 5.2.3) ESS versions.
> 
>    Changes/New Features in 5.2.7:
>    * If you use Custom to change the variable ess-toolbar-items, the
>      new toolbar is used in all subsequent ESS buffers.
> 
>    * ESS[SAS]: new feature:  if ess-sas-log-max >0 and your .log grows
>      to more than ess-sas-log-max bytes, just the first 
> ess-sas-log-max
>      bytes are refreshed; this is helpful when your .sas program
>      generates lots of error messages and gets too big for emacs to
>      display
> 
>    * ESS[R/S]: `M-;' in R/S editing modes will now indent with either
>      one or two hashes depending on context.
> 
>    * ESS[R]: David Whiting's Sweave extensions (to 'noweb') are now
>      available (from ess-swv.el loaded by default).
> 
>    Changes/New Features in 5.2.6:
>    * Removed non-ASCII characters in a few files.
> 
>    * ESS[R]: now works better when UTF-8 locale is active; in
>      particular, you get correct directional quotes in R's startup
>      message  for R-devel (unstable development version of R 2.1.0)
>      when using  environment variables LANGUAGE=en at quot
>      LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
> 
>    * ESS[SAS]: toggling of .log mode improved (`F10'); 
> toggling of .lst
>      mode now also available (`C-F10'); killing all buffers associated
>      with .sas program no longer bound to `C-F10' since its a bit
>      overzealous.
> 
>    * S-Plus 7 for Windows is now recognized.
> 
>    * ESS[S] (incl. R): in auto-fill mode, strings are not wrapped
>      anymore.
> 
>    * ESS[S] (incl. R): font-lock now correctly differs 
> between R and S,
>      e.g., for "_"; both now fontify warning(.) and S does terminate()
>      additionally.
> 
>    * Support for `bell' aka `beep' aka `ding' aka `alarm' in all
>      inferior modes: When \a is output "to the the console" at the
>      beginning of a line, the bell is rung.
> 
>    Changes/New Features in 5.2.5:
>    * ESS[R]: `C-c C-q' or `Quit S' from the menu now should 
> work (again
>      and less klunkily) and do not append `-exited' to the 
> buffer name.
>      Further, the behavior of `(ess-cleanup)', called from ess-quit,
>      now depends on the new customizable variable
>      `ess-S-quit-kill-buffers-p' which defaults to `nil'.
>      Consequently, the question _"Delete all buffers associated with
>      ..?"_ will not be asked anymore by default.
> 
>    * ESS[SAS] - ess-ebcdic-to-ascii-search-and-replace will now work
>      with the `recode' application as well which is available on many
>      platforms
> 
>    * ESS[S] (incl. R): Name completion for slots of S4 objects now
>      works!
> 
>    Changes/New Features in 5.2.4:
>    * The documentation now includes an overview of how to use 
> the emacs
>      TAGS facility for S functions.  (The distribution also used to
>      contain a directory `etc/other/Tags' where a ~1990 version of
>      `etags.c' was distributed; this is no longer relevant and so has
>      been deleted.)
> 
>    * ESS[SAS] - When you are working with EBCDIC files on an ASCII
>      platform, .log NOTEs may display as gibberish since the EBCDIC
>      characters are not converted to ASCII prior to their 
> display.  So,
>      the function ess-ebcdic-to-ascii-search-and-replace is 
> provided for
>      convenience and is bound to `C-F11'.  This function requires the
>      `dd' command (only available on unix or unix-like platforms).
> 
>    * ESS: Completion of object names is now always done dynamically
>      rather than allowing the option of using a pre-computed database
>      (by `ess-create-object-name-db') since modern computers seem fast
>      enough for dynamic completion.  (We expect few users, if 
> any, have
>      been using the pre-computed database method.)
> 
>    * ESS: object completion in iESS buffers running on 
> Windows was very
>      slow (for GNU Emacs, but not XEmacs) and has now been fixed.
>      Further, it was more or less broken for all versions of 
> S-plus 6.x,
>      and has been fixed to work everywhere but with the 
> Windows' GUI of
>      S-plus.  The list of objects now shows unique names also when an
>      object appears more than once in the search path.
> 
>    * ESS[R]: Completion of object names now also includes those
>      starting with ".".
> 
>    Changes/New Features in 5.2.3:
>    * ESS: When new inferior ESS processes are created, by default they
>      will replace the current buffer (this restores behavior from pre
>      5.2.0). If you wish new ESS processes to start in another window
>      of the current frame, set inferior-ess-same-window to nil.
> 
>    * New variables inferior-Splus-args and inferior-R-args provide a
>      way to pass command line arguments to starting S and R processes.
> 
>    Changes/New Features in 5.2.2:
>    * bug-fixes for 5.2.1 (require 'executable), html docs, etc.
> 
>    * ess-lisp-directory/../doc/info added to Info-directory-list if
>      ess-info not found by info
> 
>    * ESS[R]: If you have other versions of R on your 
> exec-path, such as
>      "R-1.8.1" with Unix or "rw1081" with Windows, ESS will find them
>      and create appropriate functions, such as `M-x R-1.8.1' or `M-x
>      rw1081', for calling them.  By default only Unix programs
>      beginning "R-1" and "R-2" and Windows programs parallel to the
>      version of R in your exec-path will be found, but see
>      ess-r-versions and ess-rterm-versions for ways to find other
>      versions of R.
> 
>    * ESS[R]: Other versions of R, such as "R-1.8.1" on Unix and
>      "rw1081" on Windows, are added to the "ESS / Start Process /
>      Other" menu.
> 
>    * ESS[S]: If you have other versions of S-Plus on your Windows
>      computer, such as S-Plus 6.1 or S-Plus 4.5, ESS will 
> find them and
>      create appropriate functions, such as `M-x splus61', for calling
>      the console version (Sqpe) inside an emacs buffer.  By 
> default only
>      programs installed in the default location will be found, but see
>      ess-SHOME-versions for ways to find other versions of S-Plus.
> 
>    * ESS[S]: Other versions of Sqpe on Windows, such as "splus61", are
>      added to the "ESS / Start Process / Other" menu.
> 
>    * ESS[R]: (bug fix) ess-quit (bound to `C-c C-q') should 
> now quit the
>      inferior R process, when issued from either the inferior buffer,
>      or from a .R buffer.
> 
>    Changes/New Features in 5.2.1:
>    * ESS[S] (R and S-plus): now have toolbar support with icons to
>      evaluate code in the inferior process or to switch there.  This
>      code is experimental and likely to change as XEmacs/Emacs issues
>      get resolved. The toolbar should be enabled if your 
> Emacs displays
>      images, but can be disabled with the variable ess-use-toolbar.
>      Thanks to David Smith from Insightful for the S-plus logo.
> 
>    * ESS[SAS]: ess-sas-graph-view (`F12') enhanced; you can specify
>      external file viewers for each graphics file type via the alist
>      ess-sas-graph-view-viewer-alist; also .jpg/.gif are now 
> handled by
>      image-mode on XEmacs, if available, otherwise by graphics
>      primitives as before
> 
>    Changes/New Features in 5.2.0:
>    * ESS[BUGS]:  new info documentation!  now supports interactive
>      processing thanks to Aki Vehtari (mailto:Aki.Vehtari at hut.fi); new
>      architecture-independent unix support as well as support for BUGS
>      v. 0.5
> 
>    * ESS[SAS]:  convert .log to .sas with ess-sas-transcript; info
>      documentation improved; Local Variable bug fixes; SAS/IML
>      statements/functions now highlighted; files edited remotely by
>      ange-ftp/EFS/tramp are recognized and pressing SUBMIT opens a
>      buffer on the remote host via the local variable
>      ess-sas-shell-buffer-remote-init which defaults to "ssh"; changed
>      the definition of the variable ess-sas-edit-keys-toggle 
> to boolean
>      rather than 0/1; added the function ess-electric-run-semicolon
>      which automatically reverse indents lines containing only "run;";
>      `C-F1' creates MS RTF portrait from the current buffer; `C-F2'
>      creates MS RTF landscape from the current buffer; `C-F9' opens a
>      SAS DATASET with PROC INSIGHT rather than PROC FSVIEW; "inferior"
>      aliases for SAS batch:  `C-c C-r' for submit region, 
> `C-c C-b' for
>      submit buffer, `C-c C-x' for goto .log; `C-c C-y' for goto .lst
> 
>    * ESS[S]: Pressing underscore ("_") once inserts " <- " 
> (as before);
>      pressing underscore twice inserts a literal underscore.  To stop
>      this smart behaviour, add "(ess-toggle-underscore nil)" to your
>      .emacs after ess-site has been loaded;
>      ess-dump-filename-template-proto (new name!) now can be 
> customized
>      successfully (for S language dialects); Support for 
> Imenu has been
>      improved; set ess-imenu-use-S to non-nil to get an "Imenu-S" item
>      on your menubar; ess-help: Now using nice underlines (instead of
>      `nuke-* ^H_')
> 
>    * ESS[R]:  After (require 'essa-r), `M-x ess-r-var' allows to load
>      numbers from any Emacs buffer into an existing *R* process; `M-x
>      ess-rdired' gives a "directory editor" of R objects; fixed
>      ess-retr-lastvalue-command, i.e. .Last.value bug (thanks to David
>      Brahm)
> 
>    * ESS: Support for creating new window frames has been 
> added to ESS.
>      Inferior ESS processes can be created in dedicated frames by
>      setting inferior-ess-own-frame to t.  ESS help buffers can also
>      open in new frames; see the documentation for ess-help-own-frame
>      for details.  (Thanks to Kevin Rodgers for contributing code.)
> 
>    Changes/New Features in 5.1.24:
>    * The version number is now correct even inside ESS/Emacs
> 
>    Changes/New Features in 5.1.23:
>    * Minor more Makefile clean up.
> 
>    Changes/New Features in 5.1.22:
>    * Besides info documentation, PDF and HTML documentation are also
>      provided (instead of built using "make") and available on the web
>      as well; see ESS web page (http://ess.r-project.org/) and StatLib
>      (http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/ESS/doc)
> 
>    * Now that info documentation is available, the README.* files are
>      no longer supported.  However, they are still 
> distributed for what
>      it's worth.
> 
>    * ESS is now an XEmacs package!  See XEmacs Installation HOWTO
>      (http://www.xemacs.org/Install/index.html) for details
>      (specifically, items 10-15).
> 
>    * ESS[SAS]: more user-friendly enhancements for remote SAS batch
>      jobs with Kermit file transfers (LOG and OUTPUT function key
>      features now supported).  Multiple shells now supported 
> so you can
>      run SAS on different computers from different buffers by setting
>      the buffer-local variable ess-sas-shell-buffer to unique buffer
>      names.
> 
>    * Major re-vamping of Makefile/Makeconf.
> 
>    Changes/New Features in 5.1.21:
>    * ESS[SAS]: info documentation now available!, see ESS->Help for
>      SAS; `F12' opens GSASFILE nearest point for viewing either within
>      emacs, when available, or via an external viewer; more syntax
>      highlighting keywords; more enhancements for remote SAS 
> batch jobs
>      with Kermit; new framework for remote SAS interactive jobs, see
>      ess-remote
> 
>    * ESS[S]: info documentation now available!, see ESS->Help 
> for the S
>      family
> 
>    * Makefile: tag now independent of rel; info files made by
>      doc/Makefile and installed in new info sub-directory
> 
>    Changes/New Features in 5.1.20:
>    * New `options()$STERM' in the S dialects (S, S-Plus, R).  The S
>      program can determine the environment in which it is currently
>      running.  ESS sets the option to `iESS' or `ddeESS' when 
> it starts
>      an S language process.  We recommend other specific values for S
>      language processes that ESS does not start.
> 
>    * New `ess-mouse-me' function, assigned to S-mouse-3 by default.
>      User may click on a word or region and then choose from the menu
>      to display the item, or a summary, or a plot, etc.  This feature
>      is still under development.
> 
>    * GNU Emacs 21.1 is now supported (fixed for S dialects, 
> SAS & BUGS),
>      (some from Stephen Eglen).
> 
>    * XEmacs 21.x is now supported (fixed w32-using-nt bug)
> 
>    * XEmacs on Win (NT) is better supported.
> 
>    * Workaround for bug in Sqpe+6 (S-PLUS 6 for Win).
> 
>    * should now work even when imenu is not available (for old
>      XEmacsen).
> 
>    * ESS[SAS]: XEmacs-Imenu fix; `C-TAB' is globalized along with your
>      function-key definitions, if specified; you can specify your SAS
>      library definitions outside of autoexec.sas for ess-sas-data-view
>      with SAS code placed in the variable ess-sas-data-view-libname,
>      also the dataset name is defaulted to the nearest 
> permanent dataset
>      to point; Speedbar support now works for permanent 
> datasets, please
>      ignore first./last.; new font-locking is now the default 
> with more
>      improvements for font-locking PROCs, macro statements, * 
> ; and %* ;
>      comments; you can toggle sas-log-mode with `F10' which will
>      font-lock your .log (if it isn't too big); submit remote .sas
>      files accessed with ange-ftp, EFS or Tramp (Kermit is
>      experimental) by setting ess-sas-submit-method to 'sh;
>      ess-sas-submit-command and ess-sas-submit-command-options are
>      buffer-local so you can have local file variable sections at the
>      end of your .sas files to request different executables 
> or specify
>      special options and the local file variables are re-read 
> at submit
>      instead of only at file open so that if you make a change it is
>      picked up immediately;
> 
>    * ESS[BUGS]: font-lock with `in' fixed.
> 
>    * for STATA: font-lock bug fixed.
> 
>    * for Rd mode: `C-c C-v' and `switch-process' in menu.  further,
>      `C-c C-f' prefix (Rd-font) for inserting or surrounding a word by
>      things such as \code{.}, \code{\link{.}}, \emph{.} etc.
> 
>    * new functions (ess-directory-function) and (ess-narrow-to-defun)
>      ess-directory <-> default-directory logic (Jeff Mincy).
> 
>    * Re-organized Makefile and fixed a few bugs.
> 
>    Changes/New Features in 5.1.19:
>    * S+6 now supported (Tony Rossini (Unix) and Rich Heiberger
>      (Windows))
> 
>    * New BUGS support through ESS[BUGS] mode (Rodney Sparapani)
>      Templates assist you in writing .bug and .cmd code (.cmd and .log
>      are replaced by .bmd and .bog to avoid emacs extension 
> collisions).
>      Substitution" parameters facilitate "automagic" generation of
>      data...in" and "init...in" filenames, "const N=" from your data
>      file and "monitor()/stats()" commands.  Activated by pressing
>      `F12'.
> 
>    * Fixes for `ess-smart-underscore' SAS breakage (Rich Heiberger)
> 
>    * You can change between PC and Unix, local and global SAS
>      function-key definitions interactively (Rich Heiberger)
> 
>    * `C-Submit' a highlighted region to SAS batch (Rodney Sparapani)
> 
>    * New and improved SAS syntax highlighting (Rodney 
> Sparapani) To get
>      the new functionality, set ess-sas-run-make-regexp to nil.  Also
>      available in .log files via `F10'.
> 
>    * Open a permanent SAS dataset for viewing via `F9' (Rodney
>      Sparapani) You must have the library defined in autoexec.sas for
>      it to work.
> 
>    * User-friendly defaults for `sas-program',
>      `ess-sas-batch-pre-command' and `ess-sas-batch-post-command' as
>      well Customize support for these and other ESS[SAS] variables
>      (Rodney Sparapani)
> 
>    * `ess-sas-suffix-2' now defaults to .dat via `F11' (Rodney
>      Sparapani)
> 
>    * Emacs/XEmacs, Unix/Windows issues collectively handled in
>      ess-emcs.el
> 
>    * defadvice solves problem of missing *ESS* (thanks to Jeff Mincy)
> 
>    * Improved manual a bit by including things that were only in
>      `README'.
> 
>    Changes/New Features in 5.1.18:
>    * New `ess-smart-underscore' function, now assigned to "_" by
>      default.  Inserts `ess-S-assign' (customizable " <- "), unless
>      inside string and comments where plain "_" is used instead. (MM)
> 
>    * Fixes for longstanding interactive SAS breakage (RMH)
> 
>    Changes/New Features in 5.1.17:
>    * Documentation for Windows Installation (Rich Heiberger)
> 
>    * 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)
> 
>    * Many small (and large) fixes/contributions (MMaechler)
> 
>    * addition of the "S-equal" variable and provide `M-x
>      ess-add-MM-keys' a way to remap "_" to `ess-S-assign', 
> typically "
>      <- ", but customizable. (MMaechler)
> 
>    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 and Rodney Sparapani)
> 
>    * Customize support (for most Emacsen which support it) (AJRossini)
> 
>    * ARC and ViSta support out of the box, and fixes for XLispStat
>      (AJRossini)
> 
>    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.
> 
>    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 and Rich
>      Heiberger.
> 
>    Changes/New Features in 5.1.11:
>    * More fixes to Stata mode, thanks to Brendan Halpin
>      (mailto: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 (mailto:brahm at alum.mit.edu).
> 
>    * Fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rodney Sparapani
> 
>    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.
> 
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