[ESS] problems with ess-remote in git

[Vitalie Spinu]

Do you see any other messages in *ESS* or *messages* buffers? Like
"error loading ESSR.rda"?

  Vitalie


 >>> Ross Boylan on Fri, 04 Apr 2014 16:02:53 -0700 wrote:

 > On 4/4/2014 3:23 PM, Vitalie Spinu wrote:
 >> I cannot reproduce the problem exactly but there was a small problem
 >> with loading ESSR.rda with ess-remote. I have tried to address it. Could
 >> you please pull git up and check if it solves your issue?
 > Slightly better.  Usually if I'm in shell mode and launch under MPI, ess-remote
 > works (but sometimes it doesn't).  Usually if I'm in iEss mode (i.e., in a shell
 > after I've exited a remote ess session, but before M-x shell-mode) it doesn't
 > work (I'm not sure if it ever worked in my tests).

 > Using git f9722bd

 > As you probably know the "Type C-h m for help on ESS Version 13.09-2" also
 > appears after successful execution of ess-remote.

 > When I say that ess-remote didn't work I mean it failed in the same way
 > described originally (below).
 > Ross
 >> 
 >> Thanks for the reports. It's really a very important contribution.
 >> 
 >> Vitalie
 >> 
 >> >>> Ross Boylan on Fri, 04 Apr 2014 13:58:46 -0700 wrote:
 >> 
 >> > On 4/4/2014 1:48 PM, Ross Boylan wrote:
 >> >> I just updated ess from git (2737b5b98784961897503c29c139c735cb0ead24) and am
 >> >> having problems getting the ess-remote command to complete.
 >> >>
 >> >> emacs 23.2.1, Debian 6.0.7.  I start emacs (non-gui) and start a shell within
 >> >> it.  I launch R via a script that sets up an MPI session (openmpi) and give
 >> >> the emacs command ess-remote.  I hit enter for R when prompted for the session
 >> >> type.
 >> >>
 >> >> The terminal just sits there.  If I try to type in it there is no response.
 >> >> If I hit ctl-g the line options(pager='cat') appears and I can type commands
 >> >> into R.  After doing this a couple of times iESS appeared in the mode line (it
 >> >> may have happened the first time).
 >> >>
 >> >> I just tried reproducing the problem, and this time everything just worked.
 >> >> Ross Boylan
 >> > And now it happened again.  One other thing: with the unsuccessful ess-remotes
 >> > that status line shows
 >> > Type C-h m for help on ESS Version 13.09-2
 >> 
 >> > The model line changed to iESS the first time I hit C-g.
 >> 
 >> > Ross
 >> 
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