[ESS] noweb mode in ess

[Martin Maechler]

    VG> Le sam. 17 janv. à 02:42, Martin Maechler a écrit :
    >> Hi Kjetil,
    >> 
    >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 22:57, Kjetil Halvorsen
    >> <kjetil1001 at gmail.com> wrote:
    >> 
    >>> 5.3.8
    >> 
    >> Yes, that's too old and has the bug.  But why are you not
    >> using the 'ess' package from ubuntu which is "5.3.10-1"
    >> which I think is a prerelease of 5.3.10 (i..e simply
    >> "sudo apt-get ess") ?

    VG> Actually, Martin, you probably get 5.3.10 from CRAN,
aah, yes, most probably.

    VG> since I also maintain an up-to-date ESS as part of the R
    VG> packages for Ubuntu
    VG> (http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ ). If I
    VG> recall correctly, it was Doug Bates who asked for this a
    VG> few months ago.

indeed.  Thank, you, Vincent, for that extra service!

So, Kjetil, add

  deb http://<my.favorite.cran.mirror>/bin/linux/ubuntu intrepid/
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

to your /etc/apt/sources.list  (or use the GUI "Package Sources")

Martin


    VG> Cheers,
    VG> Vincent

    >> 
    >> 
    >> Or then get the 5.3.10 sources from the ESS download page
    >> and replace your 5.3.8 with it.
    >> 
    >> Regards, Martin
    >> 
    >>> 
>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 18:54, Martin Maechler
>> <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>>>>>>> "KH" == Kjetil Halvorsen <kjetil1001 at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>    on Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:06:43 -0300 writes:
>>>
>>>   KH> Plese help! I am on ubuntu (8.10) linux, gnu emacs  
>>> everything up to
>>>   KH> date. Trying to (re)learn sweave. In a noweb buffer, when I  
>>> am typing
>>>   KH> <carriage return>, the point goes to the BEGINNING of the  
>>> file! That
>>>   KH> is strange behaviour. Is it supposed to be so?
>>>
>>> No; but this happened I think in an almost empty file, in some
>>> earlier version of ESS.
>>>
>>> What does  C-h v ess-version [Enter] say ?
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
>>>   KH> kjetil
>>>
>>>
>>>   KH> --
>>>   KH> "Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema  
>>> that the
>>>   KH> layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that  
>>> meeting
>>>   KH> point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of  
>>> human
>>>   KH> nature."
>>>   KH> - Hermann Weyl
>>>
>>>   KH> ______________________________________________
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>>>   KH> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the
>> layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting
>> point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human
>> nature."
>>                                    - Hermann Weyl
>>
>>
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