[ESS] Failing to load r-autoyas

[Matthew Fidler]

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Matt

On Mar 23, 2012, at 11:18 PM, Fernando Mayer <fernandomayer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Matthew,
>
> even with that line it didn't work. I tried it again with all the four
> alternatives mentioned earlier, and still nothing.
>
> I've also put this line
>
> (load "~/.emacs.d/r-autoyas")
>
> to make sure r-autoyas.el was being explicitly loaded. Now in the
> *Messages* buffer it appears as loaded, yet with no result.
>
> Let me know if there is something else I could test here.
>
> Thanks,
>
> ---
> Fernando Mayer
> Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC
> Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia - ECZ/CCB
> URL: http://sites.google.com/site/fernandomayer
> e-mail: fernandomayer [@] gmail.com
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Matthew Fidler
> <matthew.fidler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Fernando,
>>
>> I forgot to update the github readme, but I believe you need to add:
>>
>> (add hook 'ess-mode-hook 'r-autoyas-ess-activate)
>>
>> as to your .emacs file.  I was told by some package maintainers that it is
>> bad form to automaticailly load features.
>>
>> Please tell me if that works.  I have opened an issue at the github repo
>>
>> https://github.com/mlf176f2/r-autoyas.el/issues/2
>>
>> Matt.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Fernando Mayer <fernandomayer at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was trying to use r-autoyas [1], but was not very succesfull. I've
>>> downloaded r-autoyas.el from here [2] and put it in my ~/emacs.d/ . In
>>> my .emacs I have
>>>
>>> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/")
>>> (require 'ess-site)
>>> (require 'r-autoyas)
>>>
>>> but when I open emacs/ess and R and try something like
>>>
>>> rnorm(<TAB>
>>>
>>> nothing happens, not even a warning or error message from buffer. In
>>> the *Messages* buffer I also don't see any call to r-autoyas.
>>>
>>> Some other things I've tried (not cumulatively):
>>>
>>> 1) Put r-autoyas.el in /etc/emacs/site-start.d/ (since I'm sure this
>>> is in the load-path)
>>> 2) Put this in .emacs:
>>>
>>> (yas/initialize)
>>> (yas/load-directory "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/yasnippet/snippets")
>>>
>>> 3) I've yanked all the content of r-autoyas.el into my .emacs
>>> 4) M-x load-file <r-autoyas.el>
>>>
>>> In neither of them it worked.
>>>
>>> This may be something basic I'm missing since I'm not a Lisp expert,
>>> but I can't figure out what is going wrong here.
>>>
>>> I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 with:
>>>
>>> R 2.14.2 (compiled from source)
>>> ESS 5.14-1oneiric0 (installed via apt from a CRAN mirror)
>>> Emacs 23.3.1 (via apt from Ubuntu repositories)
>>> yasnippet 0.6.1c-1 (via apt from Ubuntu)
>>> r-autoyas.el 0.18 (via [2])
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ESSr-autoyas
>>> [2] http://www.svenhartenstein.de/uploads/r-autoyas.el
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any suggestion,
>>>
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Fernando Mayer
>>> Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC
>>> Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia - ECZ/CCB
>>> URL: http://sites.google.com/site/fernandomayer
>>> e-mail: fernandomayer [@] gmail.com
>>>
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