[ESS] Réf. : Re: Release of ESS 5.3.0
gerald.jean at dgag.ca
gerald.jean at dgag.ca
Mon Apr 10 14:53:38 CEST 2006
Hello,
none of the sites below worked for me, the one from Martin gives an
"Resource not found" error while the one from Andy shows the 5.3.0
directory with a size of "0 bytes" and clicking on it yields an empty page?
Gérald Jean
Conseiller senior en statistiques, Actuariat
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"In God we trust, all others must bring data" W. Edwards Deming
"Liaw, Andy"
<andy_liaw at merck.com> Pour : "'Martin Maechler'" <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>,
Envoyé par : ESS-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
ess-help-bounces at stat.m cc :
ath.ethz.ch Objet : Re: [ESS] Release of ESS 5.3.0
2006/04/08 10:27
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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