[ESS] ESS 12.09-2 released
Martin Maechler
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Sat Jan 12 22:44:11 CET 2013
We have released ESS 12.09-2 a few minutes ago.
It is a small a bug fix release for 12.09-1, i.e.
a second patch release for 12.09.
Fast direct download links are
http://ess.r-project.org/downloads/ess/ess-12.09-2.tgz
http://ess.r-project.org/downloads/ess/ess-12.09-2.zip
For the ESS core team,
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
Here is the start of the ANNOUNCE file which is part of the release
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1 ANNOUNCING ESS
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The ESS Developers proudly announce the release of ESS
12.09-2
Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) provides an intelligent, consistent
interface between the user and the software. ESS interfaces with
R/S-PLUS, SAS, BUGS/JAGS, Stata and other statistical analysis packages
under the UNIX, GNU Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and other
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/)
1.1.1 ESS subversion repository
-------------------------------
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.
1.1.2 Git for development
-------------------------
For development and experimentation on new features, there is now a
GitHub branch for ESS, available at `https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS'.
1.2 Current Features
====================
* Languages Supported:
* S family (i.e., R and S+ (aka S-PLUS), nowadays)
* SAS
* OpenBUGS/JAGS
* Stata
* XLispStat including Arc and ViSta
* Julia
* Editing source code (S family, SAS, OpenBUGS/JAGS, Stata, Julia)
* Syntactic indentation and highlighting of source code
* Partial evaluation of code
* Loading and error-checking of code
* Source code revision maintenance
* Batch execution (SAS, OpenBUGS/JAGS)
* Use of imenu to provide links to appropriate functions
* Interacting with the process (S family, SAS, Stata, Julia)
* Command-line editing
* Searchable Command history
* Command-line completion of S family object names and file
names
* Quick access to object lists and search lists
* Transcript recording
* Interface to the help system
* Transcript manipulation (S family, Stata)
* Recording and saving transcript files
* Manipulating and editing saved transcripts
* Re-evaluating commands from transcript files
* Interaction with Help Pages and other Documenation (R)
* Fast Navigation
* Sending Examples to running ESS process.
* Fast Transfer to Further Help Pages
* Help File Editing (R)
* Syntactic indentation and highlighting of source code.
* Sending Examples to running ESS process.
* Previewing
1.3 Requirements
================
ESS is most likely to work with current/recent versions of the following
statistical packages: R/S-PLUS, SAS, Stata, OpenBUGS and JAGS.
ESS supports current, and recent, stable versions of GNU Emacs
(currently, specifically, the 23.x and 24.x series;
alpha/beta/pre-release versions are NOT SUPPORTED). Due to XEmacs
lacking some features that ESS requires, ESS support of XEmacs ends
with ESS 12.04-4. This decision will be re-visited in the future as
XEmacs continues to sync with GNU Emacs.
To build the PDF documentation, you will need a version of TeX Live
or texinfo that includes texi2dvi (BEWARE: recent TeX Live, and some
texinfo RPMs, do NOT include texi2dvi).
1.4 Stability
=============
All recent released versions are meant to be release-quality versions.
While some new features are being introduced, we are cleaning up and
improving the interface. We know that there are many remaining
opportunities for documentation improvements, but all contributors are
volunteers and time is precious. Patches or suggested fixes with bug
reports are much appreciated!
1.5 Mailing List
================
There is a mailing list for discussions and announcements relating to
ESS. Join the list by sending an e-mail with "subscribe ess-help" (or
"help") in the body to <ess-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch>;
contributions to the list may be mailed to
<ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>. Rest assured, this is a fairly
low-volume mailing list.
The purposes of the mailing list include
* helping users of ESS to get along with it.
* discussing aspects of using ESS on Emacs and XEmacs.
* suggestions for improvements.
* announcements of new releases of ESS.
* posting small patches to ESS.
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
===========
* 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)
* Vitalie Spinu (mailto:spinuvit at gmail.com)
1.8 License
===========
The source and documentation of 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
================
Changes/Bug Fixes in 12.09-2:
* ESS: new `ess-switch-to-end-of-proc-buffer' variable that
controls whether `C-c C-z' switches to the end of process
buffer. The default is `t'. You can use prefix argument to
`C-c C-z' to toggle this variable.
* ESS: fix in `ess-eval-linewise' that was causing emacs to
hang during R debugging with `ess-eval-visibly' equal to `t'.
* ESS: fix in `ess-eval-linewise' that was causing emacs to
recenter the prompt in visible window
* ESS[tracebug]: A better handling of "Selection" prompts and
debug related singlekey commands.
* ESS: fix a bug in `ess-switch-process' that was causing
`*new*' selection to fail.
* ESS[R]: Solve missing `ess-local-process-name' bug in R-dired.
* ESS[SWV]: `ess-swv-PDF' doesn't ask for a command to run if
there is only one command in `ess-swv-pdflatex-commands'.
* ESS[SWV]: `ess-swv-weave' gained an universal argument to
allow for an interactive choice between available weavers
(sweave, knitr).
* ESS: `ess-eval-*-and-step' functions go to next empty line at
eob, instead of staying at the last line.
Changes/New Features in 12.09-1:
* ESS _Breaking Changes in Keys_:
- New keymaps: `ess-doc-map' bound to `C-c C-d';
`ess-extra-map' bound to `C-c C-e';
`ess-dump-object-into-edit-buffer' was moved on `C-c C-e
C-d'
- roxygen map was moved on `C-c C-o' and
`ess-roxy-update-entry' now resides on `C-c C-o C-o'
- ess-handy-commands is not bound anymore
- `ess-dev-map' (including `ess-tracebug' and
`ess-developer') moved on `C-c C-t'
- `C-c C-y' is deprecated in favor of `C-c C-z C-z'
* ESS[R] new command `ess-describe-object-at-point' bound to
`C-c C-d C-e' (repeat `C-e' or `e' to cycle). It was inspired
by Erik Iverson's `ess-R-object-tooltip'. Customize
`ess-describe-at-point-method' to use tooltip instead of an
electric buffer.
* ESS: New command `ess-build-tags-for-directory' bound to `C-c
C-e C-t' for building dialect specific tag tables. After
building tags use `M-.' to navigate to function and objects
definitions. By default `C-c C-e C-t' builds tags based on
imenu regular expressions and also include other common
languages `.c, .o, .cpp' etc. But it relies on external `find'
and `etags' commands. If `ess-build-tags-command' is defined
(for `R'), the inferior process is asked to build tags
instead.
* ESS: `ess-switch-process' offers `*new*' alternative to start
a new process instead of switching to one of the currently
running processes.
* ESS: Switching between processes (`C-c C-s') uses buffer
names instead of the internal process names. Use `M-x
rename-buffer' command to conveniently rename your process
buffers.
* ESS: Process buffers can be automatically named on process
creation according to user specified scheme. Default schemes
are *proc*, *proc:dir* and *proc:abbr-long-dir* where `proc'
stands for the internal process name and `dir' stands for the
directory where the process was started in. The default is
*proc*. For customization see
`ess-gen-proc-buffer-name-function'.
* ESS: `ess-eval-visibly-p' is deprecated in favor of
`ess-eval-visibly'.
* ESS: New evaluation pattern `nowait'. In addition to old
`nil' and `t' values, `ess-eval-visibly' accepts `nowait' for
a visible evaluation with no waiting for the process. See
`ess-eval-visibly' for details on evaluation patterns.
* ESS: New "Process" menu entry with process related commands
and configuration
* iESS: Process buffer is now automatically shown on errors
* ESS: New `ess-switch-to-inferior-or-script-buffer' command
bound to `C-c C-z' in both script and process buffers. If
invoked form process buffer it switches to the most recent
buffer of the same dialect. It is a single key command.
* ESSR-help: On multiple help pages with the same name, `C-c
C-v' now asks for user resolution directly in emacs.
* ESS[R] ess-roxy: new variable `ess-roxy-re' for fontification
of cases where the number of leading `#' differs from
`ess-roxy-str'.
* ESS[R] Eldoc was considerably enhanced. It now finds hidden
default S3 methods and displays non-default methods'
arguments after trailing ||.
* ESS[R]: New `ess-display-demos' command bound to `C-c C-d o'
and `C-c C-d C-o'
* ESS: New `ess-help-web-search' command bound to `C-c C-d w'
and `C-c C-d C-w' to facilitate interactive search of web
resources. Implemented for `R', `Stata' and `Julia'. See also
`ess-help-web-search-command'.
* ESS: ess-pdf-viewer-pref accepts now command line arguments
* ESS[Rnw]: Add knitr support. Customize `ess-swv-processor'
for the default processor.
* ESS[Rnw]: More thorough renaming of remaining `noweb-*' to
`ess-noweb-*'.
* ESS[Rnw] new commands `ess-eval-chunk-and-step' and
`ess-eval-chunk' bound to `M-n C-c' and `M-n C-M-x' to mirror
standard ess commands in C-c map.
* ESS[R] Auto-completion: new variable
`ess-ac-R-argument-suffix' to customize the insertion of
trailing "=". Defaults to " = ".
* ESS[Julia]: Added index, apropos and web-search to julia.
* ESS help: More evaluation commands were added to ess-help
mode (`C-c C-c', `C-M-x' etc)
Bug Fixes in 12.09-1:
* iESShelp: Multiple help pages with the same name are properly
handled on `C-c C-v'
* iESSremote: Evaluation with ESS remote no longer freezes
emacs.
* iESS: `comint-previous-prompt' `C-c C-p' no longer stops on
secondary prompt "+".
* iESS[R], iESS(Sqpe) [S] on Windows: The `options("editor")'
is now initialized to `emacsclient' instead of the previous
`gnuclient'. The user may need to add the line
`(server-start)' to the emacs initialization file.
`emacsclient' has been included with emacs since GNU Emacs
22.1.
* ESS[Rnw] Fixed "connection to R" bug (in 12.09 only).
* ESS[Rnw] Explicit `ess-swv-stangle' and `ess-swv-sweave'
functions.
* ESS[Rnw] Fixed completion and smart underscore problems cause
by unmatched "\"'
* ESS[R] is more careful with the `R' code injection. It now
happens only once at the start of the session.
* ESS[R]: Fixed auto-scrolling the comint buffer on evaluation.
* ESS[Julia]: Solve several indentation and word navigation
problems.
* ESS[Julia]: Help system works again.
Changes/New Features in 12.09:
* Due to XEmacs lacking some features that ESS requires, ESS
support of XEmacs ends with ESS 12.04-4. This decision will
be re-visited in the future as XEmacs continues to sync with
GNU Emacs.
* ESS[R]: On Windows, there is now a new customizable variable
(currently called `ess-directory-containing-R') to tell ESS
where to look for the `Rterm.exe' executables. The name of
the variable and the values it can take are both in beta and
subject to change. Prior to this variable, ESS searched only
in the default installation directory. Setting this variable
now tells ESS how to find `Rterm.exe' executables when they
are installed somewhere else.
* ESS[julia]: _new_ mode for editing julia code (`*.jl'). Start
with `M-x julia'.
Full interaction interface, imenu and basic error referencing
are available.
* ESS[R] noweb: `noweb-mode' and `noweb-font-lock-mode' have
been renamed to `ess-noweb-mode' and
`ess-noweb-font-lock-mode' to avoid conflicts with the "real"
`noweb-mode'.
* ESS[R] noweb: The long standing font-lock bug has been solved
in `ess-noweb' interface.
* ESS: Basic evaluation keys are now bound to
`ess-eval-region-*-' functions:
- `C-M-x' is bound to
`ess-eval-region-or-function-or-paragraph'
- `C-c C-c' is bound to
`ess-eval-region-or-function-or-paragraph-and-step'
- `C-RET' is bound to `ess-eval-region-or-line-and-step'
Each of these functions first evaluates the region whenever
the region is active.
* ESS: `C-M-a'/`C-M-e' now step to beginning/end of paragraph
if no function has been detected.
* ESS: `ess-eval-*-and-step' family of functions are now
smarter, and don't step to end of buffer or end of chunk code
(`@') when at the end of the code.
* ESS: `ess-handy-commands' function is bound to `C-c h'
* ESS: ESS is now _blinking_ the evaluated region. Set
`ess-blink-region' to nil to deactivate; `ess-blink-delay'
gives the duration of the blink. Evaluated region is
"blinked" in `highlight' face.
* ESS[R-help] New key `a' for "apropos()" in help buffers.
Also available through `C-c h'.
* ESS[R-help] All R commands of type foo?bar and foo??bar are
recognized and redirected into appropriate *ESS-help* buffers.
* ESS[R]: New customization interface for _font-lock_.
ESS font-lock operates with predefined keywords. Default
keywords are listed in `ess-R-font-lock-keywords' and
`inferior-R-font-lock-keywords', which see. The user can
easily customize those by adding new keywords. These
variables can also be interactively accessed and saved
through `ESS/Font-lock' submenu.
Several new fontification keywords have been added. Most
notably the keywords for highlighting of function calls,
numbers and operators.
* ESS[R]: auto-complete is now activated by default whenever
auto-complete package is detected. Set
`ess-use-auto-complete' to nil to deactivate.
* ESS[R]: R AC sources are no longer auto-starting at 0
characters but at the default `ac-auto-start' characters.
* ESS no longer redefines default ac-sources, but only appends
`ac-source-filename' to it.
* ESS: `ac-source-R' now concatenates " = " to function
arguments.
* ESS: Menus for ESS and iESS have been reorganized and
enriched with _Tracebug_ and _Developer_ submenus.
* ESS[R]: `ess-developer' and `ess-tracebug' commands are
available by default in `ess-dev-map' which is bound to `C-c
d' in ESS and iESS maps.
* ESS[R]: `eldoc' truncates long lines whenever
`eldoc-echo-area-use-multiline-p' is non-nil (the default).
Set this variable to t if you insist on multiline eldoc. See
also `ess-eldoc-abbreviation-style'.
* ESS[R]: completion code pre-caches arguments of heavy
generics such as `plot' and `print' to eliminated the
undesirable delay on first request.
* iESS: Prompts in inferior buffers are now highlighted
uniformly with `comint-highlight-prompt' face.
* ESS[R]: R process no longer wait for the completion of input
in inferior buffer. Thus, long running commands like
`Sys.sleep(5)' no longer stall emacs.
* ESS: [R, S, Stata, Julia] have specialized
`ess-X-post-run-hook's, which are run at the end of
subprocess initialization.
* ESS[Stata]: All interactive evaluation commands work as
expected. On-line comments are removed before the evaluation
and multiline comments are skipped on `C-c C-c' and other
interactive commands.
* ESS no longer auto-connects to a subprocess with a different
dialect than the current buffer's one.
* ESS: `ess-arg-function-offset-new-line' is now a list for all
the ESS indentation styles, which results in the following
indentation after an open "(":
a <- some.function(other.function(
arg1,
arg2)
* ESS[SAS]: Improved MS RTF support for GNU Emacs; try
`ess-sas-rtf-portrait' and `ess-sas-rtf-landscape'.
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