[ESS] ESS 13.05 release next week: beta testers welcome
Brian Diggs
diggsb at ohsu.edu
Thu May 9 22:05:51 CEST 2013
On 5/9/2013 6:27 AM, Rodney Sparapani wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We, the developers of ESS, are planning to release ESS 13.05 next week.
> This is a good time for the brave beta testers among you to try it out.
> You can find out how to install the development version at
> http://ess.r-project.org/index.php?Section=download
>
> There are several new/improved features which you can see at
> http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#New-features
>
> Two of the new/improved features in particular are ElDoc and tracebug.
> You can find more information about ElDoc at
> http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#ESS-ElDoc
>
> Note that you can turn off ElDoc, by placing this in your ~/.emacs
> file {prior to (require 'ess-site) }:
> (setq ess-use-eldoc nil)
>
> You can find more information about tracebug at
> http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#ESS-tracebug
>
> You can toggle tracebug off/on via issuing the following command:
> M-x ess-tracebug
>
> If you find any problems, then please report them here. Thanks
I thought I'd try the development version to see if some of problems
I've been having are fixed, but I am having problems even getting it to
a point where I can test it.
I am using Vincent Goulet's modified emacs distribution for Windows
GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2012-08-28 on MARVIN
(Is there a way of determining within emacs what the "modified" version
is? I think I'm using eamcs-24.2-modified-7, but I'm not sure how to
verify that.)
I've cloned a copy of the git repository into ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp so it
is in the ESS directory there. I put
(setq load-path
(append '("~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/")
load-path))
;; where the development git checkout resides
(setq load-path
(append '("~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/ESS/")
load-path))
at the top of my .emacs file. [I don't know if I need both of those or
not; my emacs hacking skills are not that great.] However, I still seem
to be getting the version of ess which comes with the distribution;
ess-version gives
ess-version : 12.09-2 [rev. 5395 (2013-01-10)]
I don't want to replace ess that comes with the distribution (in
c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/site-lisp/ess/) because I want to
easily revert back to a "good" version when I'm not testing.
If it is useful, here is the value of load-path
("c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/site-lisp/auctex" "c:/Program
Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/site-lisp/ess/" "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/ESS/"
"~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs
24.2/site-lisp" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/site-lisp/ess"
"c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/site-lisp/org" "c:/Program Files
(x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/site-lisp/site-start.d" "C:/Program Files (x86)/GNU
Emacs 24.2/../site-lisp" "C:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp"
"c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/vc" "c:/Program Files
(x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/url" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs
24.2/lisp/textmodes" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs
24.2/lisp/progmodes" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/play"
"c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/org" "c:/Program Files
(x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/nxml" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs
24.2/lisp/net" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/mh-e"
"c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/mail" "c:/Program Files
(x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/language" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs
24.2/lisp/international" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs
24.2/lisp/gnus" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/eshell"
"c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/erc" "c:/Program Files
(x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/emulation" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs
24.2/lisp/emacs-lisp" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/cedet"
"c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/calendar" "c:/Program Files
(x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/lisp/calc" "c:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs
24.2/lisp/obsolete" "C:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Emacs 24.2/leim")
I don't know what is causing the "wrong" ess to be found. I tried
eliminating everything in my .emacs file except those load-path
adjustments, but that didn't help. What is the right way to do this?
--
Brian S. Diggs, PhD
Senior Research Associate, Department of Surgery
Oregon Health & Science University
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