[ESS] completion using ess-remote

[Francois Pepin]

Hi,

I'm using ESS 5.14 with emacs 23.1.1 and R 2.13.1. I sometimes need to access my R session from different computers so I use screen and ess-remote to connect to it. Unfortunately, the command completion does not work.

The output I get after re-attaching the screen in a terminal is:

> as.character(getRversion() >= "2.7.0")
[1] "TRUE"
> rcompgen:::.assignLinebuffer('mul')
Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'rcompgen'
> rcompgen:::.assignEnd(3)
Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'rcompgen'
> rcompgen:::.guessTokenFromLine()
Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'rcompgen'
> rcompgen:::.completeToken()
Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'rcompgen'
> rcompgen:::.retrieveCompletions()
Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'rcompgen'

This is due to the fact that rcompgen is now found under utils, so all these commands should have utils::: instead of rcompgen:::

Looking into the ESS source, I see the following lines in lisp/ess-r-d.el indicating that ESS knows about this:
         (NS (if (ess-current-R-at-least '2.7.0)
                 "utils:::"
               "rcompgen:::"))

Would anyone know why ESS is still trying to use rcompgen in this case and how I might be able to convince it not to?

Thanks,

François Pepin
Scientist
 
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