[ESS] Emacs 22.1 is out!

[Vincent Goulet]

Le 07-06-08 à 11:51, Martin Maechler a écrit :

>>>>>> "MM" == Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>>>>>>     on Fri, 8 Jun 2007 15:14:52 +0200 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.
>
>     MM> Thank you, Vincent.
>
>     MM> As you know, I'm not a windows users either.
>
>     MM> However, as it so happens someone just reported a problem
>     MM> with one of my R packages --- on Windows only --.
>
>     MM> So I tried your installation, on our "Windows Terminal Server'
>     MM> After installation, etc
>     MM> when I do
>
>     MM> M-x R
>
>     MM> I get the error
>
>     MM> "apply: Spawning child process: invalid argument:"
>
>     MM> end with an empty *R* buffer
>     MM> and an *ESS* buffer that looks +- ok,
>     MM> ending in
>     MM>  
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> ---
>
>     MM> (inf-ess finish [S(R), c:/program files/r/r-2.5.0/bin/ 
> rterm.exe(nil,nil)]
>
>     .................
>     .................
>
>     MM> Making Process...Buf *R*, Proc R, Prog c:/program files/r/ 
> r-2.5.0/bin/rterm.exe
>     MM> Start File=nil, Args= --ess  .
>
>     MM>  
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> ---
>
>     MM> I did leave  ess-site.el  unchanged.
>
>     MM> Any hints are appreciated,
>
> Actually, I found it myself:
>
> It's a buglet in (the Windows parts) of ESS :
> I've installed "R 2.5.0 patched" (from CRAN),
> but ESS determines the executable with a wrong PATH :
>
>   c:/program files/r/r-2.5.0/bin/rterm.exe
>
> where as correct would be
>
>   c:/program files/r/r-2.5.0pat/bin/rterm.exe
> 			    ^^^
>
> Ok, so now it's back to us ESS-core to fix that ...
> and provide a new release for ESS  ...
>
> Not something I had exactly wanted to do just now,
> but maybe that's a good incentive

As you can tell from my other message, I don't consider this a bug in  
ESS at all. Well, we step on each other's feet, heh? I honestly  
didn't know ESS contained "good guesses" for paths and always forced  
the path in my installations. How good is ESS to guess on R updates?  
I might as well remove a few lines of the site-start.el file..

Vincent

>
> 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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>
>     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
>
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