[ESS] ESS 5.11 released
Martin Maechler
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Tue Jul 13 18:46:37 CEST 2010
Dear ESS users,
I have released ESS 5.11 a few moments ago.
Again, we have several small improvements with respect to 5.10,
please see the "New Features" below.
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In behalf of the ESS core team,
Martin Maechler,
ETH Zurich
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The following is part of the ANNOUNCE file that comes with ESS:
1 ANNOUNCING ESS
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The ESS Developers proudly announce the release of ESS
5.11
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.
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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
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* 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)
* Sebastian P. Luque (mailto:spluque at gmail.com)
* Henning Redestig (mailto:henning.red at googlemail.com)
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
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Changes/New Features in 5.11:
* Filename completion within buffers now adds only trailing
characters to complete the filename, rather than expanding to
an absolute file path. This filename completion is bound to
the TAB key.
* `M-n P' in Sweave buffers now prompts for the command to run
instead of using `pdflatex' unconditionally, offering
completion from customizable collection
`ess-swv-pdflatex-commands', the first of which is taken as
default and that defaults to `texi2pdf'.
* `M-RET' is now also bound in S language (R and S+) buffers to
`ess-use-this-dir'. It sends `setwd(..)' to the S process to
set the working directory to the one of the source file.
Changes/New Features in 5.10:
* `M-RET' in *S* buffers is now bound to `ess-dirs'. This
function will set Emacs's current directory to be the same as
the *S* process. This is useful if you use `setwd()' within
a *S* process.
Changes/New Features in 5.9:
* Toolbar: The toolbar now has an icon for starting Splus.
* Indentation: New documentation and code has been added to
make it easier to change how ESS indents code. In
particular, see `ess-default-style', `ess-own-style-list' and
the documention subsection "Changing indentation styles".
* `ess-display-help-on-object' (`C-c C-v') now offers
completion candidates for help file aliases, in addition to
object names.
* Font locking: is now turned on even without `window-system'
is `nil', whenever ESS-FONT-LOCK-MODE is non-nil, i.e., by
default.
* ESS script editing: ess-eval-deactivate-mark default is now t,
as suggested by Leo Alekseyev and subsequent "unanimous"
ESS-help discussion.
* ESS[R]: Editing support for "#!" (Rscript / littler) editing,
thanks to Jeffrey Arnold.
* ESS[R]: Now finds all R versions, both 64-bit and 32-bit, on
some 64-bit Windows machines. Please report back to
ess-core success or failure on your 64-bit Windows machine.
* ESS Manual now more visually pleasing;
`http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html'
* ESS[R]: Roxygen on XEmacs no longer font locks for now (as
it required missing features and hence broke ESS startup,
there).
* ESS[R]: Roxygen has a sub-menu on the [ESS] menu.
* ESS[R]: Function `ess-rutils-htmldocs' in `ess-rutils.el'
offers an alternative to `help.start()' for navigating R
documentation, using the `browse-url' Emacs function.
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