[ESS] Problem with transcript file

[Sparapani, Rodney]

> Dear all,
> 
> as my emacs skills are rudimentary I don't know what to do with this error.
> 
> I want to start recording a transcript file at the start of emacs ESS R session.
> Hence, I set:
> 
> (load  "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess/ess-site")
> (setq ess-ask-about-transfile t)
> in .emacs.
> 
> Then I start up emacs (GNU Emacs 24.3.1), ess and specify the name of the transcript file when prompted for it
> and this is what happens:
> 
> Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess/ess-site...done
> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
> (New file)
> Type C-h m for help on ESS version 13.09-1
> Entering debugger...
> inferior-ess-output-filter: Wrong type argument: markerp, nil [2 times]
> inferior-ess-output-filter: Wrong type argument: markerp, nil
> 
> With additional degugging information:
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument markerp nil)
>   comint-output-filter(#<process R> "\nR version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) -- \"Frisbee
> Sailing\"\nCopyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing\nPlatform:
> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)\n\n")
>   inferior-ess-output-filter(#<process R> "\nR version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) -- \"Frisbee
> Sailing\"\nCopyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing\nPlatform:
> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)\n\n")
>   accept-process-output(#<process R> 0.01)
>   ess-wait-for-process(#<process R> nil 0.01)
>   inferior-ess("--no-readline  ")
>   R(nil)
>   call-interactively(R record nil)
>   command-execute(R record)
>   execute-extended-command(nil "R")
>   call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
> 
> Any ideas on how to fix this?

Hi Arvas:

I can confirm this is a bug with 13.09-2 as well.

Rodney