[ESS] Emacs 22.1 is out!

[Vincent Goulet]

Le 07-06-08 à 11:34, Martin Maechler a écrit :

>>>>>> "BernPf" == Pfaff, Bernhard Dr <Bernhard_Pfaff at fra.invesco.com>
>>>>>>     on Fri, 8 Jun 2007 14:59:29 +0100 writes:
>
>>>
>>>>>>>> "VG" == Vincent Goulet <vincent.goulet at act.ulaval.ca>
>>>>>>>> on Thu, 7 Jun 2007 01:36:13 -0400 writes:
>>>
>     VG> Hi all,
>     VG> For those interested to effortless upgrade to 22.1 on
>>> Windows, I
>     VG> updated my modified Emacs distribution; see
>>>
>     VG> http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/
>>>
>     VG> As strange as it may seem, I am not a Windows user
>>> myself (I build
>     VG> this distribution for my students), so I would
>>> appreciate you let me
>     VG> know if you run into any problem or difficulty.
>>>
>>> Thank you, Vincent.
>>>
>>> As you know, I'm not a windows users either.
>>>
>>> However, as it so happens someone just reported a problem
>>> with one of my R packages --- on Windows only --.
>>>
>>> So I tried your installation, on our "Windows Terminal Server'
>>> After installation, etc
>>> when I do
>>>
>>> M-x R
>>>
>>> I get the error
>>>
>>> "apply: Spawning child process: invalid argument:"
>>>
>     BernPf> Hello Martin,
>
>     BernPf> I once obtained a similar error message, which was  
> caused by the fact, that I have left the tar.gz file of ESS in my  
> site-lisp folder. Once removed, everything ran smooth.

This is a FAQ I should find to time to write somewhere.

Normally, this "Spawning child process: invalid argument:" error  
occurs when the path to Rterm.exe in the configuration file is  
incorrect. My installer is not smart enough to look for this path at  
installation, so the path is hard coded in the .../site-lisp/site- 
start.el. This needs to be changed with each R release (since we  
cannot assume, as on Linux, that rterm.exe will be in the system's  
path), so that's why a placed an icon in the Gnu Emacs folder to have  
direct access to the "site configuration file".

I checked and M-x R works out of the box if rterm.exe is installed in  
the default location C:\Program Files\R\R-2.5.0\bin.

Please report if this does not solve your problem.

Cheers,   Vincent

>
>
> Well, thank you Bernhard,
> but I didn't expect this was the case with Vincent's
> "Emacs+ESS+Auctex" -- all-in-one-- bundle,
> and I've looked, it wasn't.
>
> Also, in the mean time, I've uninstalled and re-installed the
> stuff  into   E:\\Emacs\\
> i.e. specifically in a place that has no spaces in
> file/directory names.
>
> But it did not help.
>
> Of course now, I could also re-install R and
> make sure it is also not in  c:/program files/r/.....
> But then I know that ESS specifically works around this and uses
> short file names ( c:/progr~1/.... ) anyway.
>
> Martin
>
>     BernPf> Best,
>     BernPf> Bernhard
>
>
>>> end with an empty *R* buffer
>>> and an *ESS* buffer that looks +- ok,
>>> ending in
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>> ----------
>>>
>>> (inf-ess finish [S(R), c:/program
>>> files/r/r-2.5.0/bin/rterm.exe(nil,nil)]
>>> (ess-multi 0):  inf-ess-start-args=--ess  , comint-..echoes=nil
>>> (i-ess 1): buf=*R*, lang=S, comint..echo=nil,
>>> comint..sender=comint-simple-send,
>>> (i-ess 2): buf=*R*, lang=S, comint..echo=t,
>>> comint..sender=inferior-R-input-sender,
>>> (ess-setq-vars-LOCAL): language=S, dialect=R, buf=nil,
>>> comint..echoes=t, comint..sender=inferior-R-input-sender
>>> (i-ess 3): curr-buf=*R*, comint..echo=t,
>>> comint..sender=inferior-R-input-sender,
>>> (ess-multi post inf-ess: start-args=--ess  , comint-echoes=t
>>> (ess-multi 1):  start-args=--ess
>>> Making Process...Buf *R*, Proc R, Prog c:/program
>>> files/r/r-2.5.0/bin/rterm.exe
>>> Start File=nil, Args= --ess  .
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>> ----------
>>>
>>> I did leave  ess-site.el  unchanged.
>>>
>>> Any hints are appreciated,
>>> Martin
>
>>>
>     VG> HTH    Vincent
>>>
>     VG> Le 07-06-03 à 18:01, Stephen Eglen a écrit :
>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Emacs 22.1 is finally out!
>>>>> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/NEWS.22.1	
>>>>>
>>>>> lists the changes, and you should be able to download it from
>>>>> ftp.gnu.org (or your gnu mirror in the next day or so), under
>>>>> directory software/emacs
>>>>>
>>>>> Cygwin binaries have already been made:
>>>>> http://www.webalice.it/angelo.graziosi/Emacs.html
>>>>>
>>>>> & hopefully soon the W32 binaries will be updated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Stephen
>>>>>
>>>>> ______________________________________________
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>>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
>>>
>     VG> ---
>     VG> Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor
>     VG> École d'actuariat
>     VG> Université Laval, Québec
>     VG> Vincent.Goulet at act.ulaval.ca   http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca
>>>