[ESS] ess-remote and help

[Ali Tofigh]

To report back on my problems: yes, with tramp i got everything
working. i only had to make sure that options(pager="cat") was set. it
took a while though to get tramp working on my particular setup with
our servers.

I still think that it might be worthwhile for a devloper to look into
the original issue as to why such a straightforward issue doesn't
work. it seems to me like there must be a bug somewhere and probably
affecting more ppl than just me.

but thank you for helping to resolve my issue.

best
/ali

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:23, Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu> wrote:
> Ali Tofigh wrote:
>>
>> I'm using the latest version of emacs for mac (23.4.1) and ess (12.04)
>> using the all-in-one installation file by Vincent Goulet (from the
>> link on the ess website).
>>
>> I cannot get ess-remote to work with help files. I do the following:
>>
>> M-x ssh (to remote server)
>> R (start R on the remote server)
>> M-x ess-remote
>> r (to choose the dialect)
>>
>> which results in this single line being executed:
>>
>> options(STERM='iESS', str.dendrogram.last ="'")
>>
>> now if I just type 'help()' followed by RET I get a message:
>>
>> "ESS process not ready. Finish your command before trying again."
>>
>> The same message appears if I do C-c C-v. Does anyone have an idea on
>> how i can debug this issue?
>>
>> /ali
>
>
> Have you seen this thread
> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.ess.general/5655>?
> It might give you a workaround.
>
> Rodney
>
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