[ESS] ESS 13.09 released

Vincent Goulet vincent.goulet at me.com
Fri Sep 27 22:22:25 CEST 2013


I'm up to date. 

Did I beat Dirk to it? Darn, I have a new computer and had to make a few updates to build my distributions. :-)

	http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/emacs/

Cheers,

Vincent

Le 2013-09-27 à 13:11, Martin Maechler <maechler at lynne.ethz.ch> a écrit :

> Dear  ESS  users and lovers,
> 
> A few moments ago, we have relased  ESS 13.09.
> You can get it almost directly from
>    http://ess.r-project.org/index.php?Section=download
> 
> It contains new features and somewhat important improvements of
> existing functionality, notably in 
> - working with julia
> - ess-developer interface
> - remote evaluation
> 
> For more details follows the first part of the ANNOUNCE file
> part of the ESS docu, notably containing
>  '1.9 New Features', (here the 13.09 ones only)
> 
> In the name of the ESS Core Team,
> --
> Martin Maechler, 
> ETH Zurich
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 1 ANNOUNCING ESS
> ****************
> 
> The ESS Developers proudly announce the release of ESS 13.09
> 
>   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 (R and S+ AKA S-PLUS)
>        * SAS
>        * OpenBUGS/JAGS
>        * Stata
>        * 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). Non-Windows users
> beware: GNU Emacs 24.3 is preferable to 24.1 or 24.2: these broken
> builds suffer from bug 12463
> <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=12463> which will cause
> emacs and ESS to get progressively slower over time.
> 
>   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/New Features in 13.09:
>   * font-lock in process buffers doesn't "spill" over prompts.  Missing
>     closing string delimiters should not cause wrong fontification of
>     the following command input.
>   * ESS[julia]: full features M-TAB completion and auto-complete
>     support, which now works for modules, structures and data types.
>   * ESS[julia]: a much better eldoc showing arguments of methods and
>     data type constructors
>   * ESS-developer:
>        - ESS-developer work-flow pattern has been streamlined:
>          ESS-developer is now automatically activated on per-file basis
>          if the file is part of a developed package
>          'ess-developer-packages'.  The old behavior (activation on
>          per-process basis) is still available on 'M-x ess-developer'
>          in a process buffer.
>        - integration with 'devtools' package.  New command
>          'ess-developer-load-package' calls 'load_all' on the package
>          containing current file.  'ess-developer-add-package' now
>          offers IDO menu completions with available loading methods,
>          currently 'library', and 'load_all'.  Loading command can be
>          customized with 'ess-developer-load-on-add-commands'.
>   * 'TAB' now indents region if region is active (a contribution of
>     Matthew Fidler in pull #41)
>   * 'M-x ess-version' now reports full loading path and recognizes git
>     and ELPA versions.
>   * warning and error keyword are now highlighted with
>     'font-lock-warning-face' as they should be, (for quite some time
>     these keywords have been hijacked by compilation mode
>     fontification).
>   * eldoc: Eldoc now recognizes multiple processes.  If current process
>     is busy, or current buffer is not associated with a process, eldoc
>     picks its completions from the first available free process.
>   * org-babel: evaluation is now org-friendly
>   * help: new help buffers now try to reuse ess-help buffers.  This
>     behavior is controlled by 'ess-help-reuse-window' custom variable.
>   * help: ?foo pops IDO menu on multiple help files (so far it worked
>     only for 'C-c C-v')
>   * remote evaluation is considerably faster now on slow connections
>   * ESS[R] tracebug R source references regular expressions are
>     (mostly) language agnostic.
>   * 'ess-function-call-face' inherits from
>     'font-lock-function-name-face' rather than
>     'font-lock-builtin-face'.
>   * 'ess-inject-source' now accepts 'function-and-buffer' option.
>   * Documentation: The "New Features" section (and 'NEWS') now
>     represent recent changes: within the last year or so.  All changes
>     can be found in the new news.html (news.html) (or 'NEWS' and
>     'ONEWS').
>   * ESS[R] 'ess-rep-regexp' should no longer inf.loop (rarely!), and
>     hence 'M-x ess-fix-miscellaneous' should neither.
> 



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