[ESS] could not find function .ess.help

Steve Nunez snunez at hortonworks.com
Tue Nov 4 20:15:57 CET 2014


It seems to happen only on polymode buffers. Regular R/ESS buffers are
fine.





On 11/4/14, 11:07, "Vitalie Spinu" <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>Your ESSR is probably not loaded at startup. There is a lengthy issue
>
>  https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/issues/117
>
>on this topic.
>
>Does this happen in every R session that you start, or just
>occasionally?
>
>
>  Vitalie
>
> >>> Steve Nunez on Tue, 04 Nov 2014 09:11:37 -0800 wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
>
> > Ive got a brand new installation of Emacs 24.4 on MacOS 10.9.4, along
>with
> > ESS 14.09 downloaded today. When trying to invoke any of the help
>function
> > for R I get the error in the subject line. Looking at the ESS buffer I
>see:
>
> >> (ess-help '*help[R](mean)*' start  ..
> >> |--> t [searching nil]
> >> (ess-help: kill bogus buffer *help[R](mean)* ..
>
> > It seems like this has been occurring on and off for a while now. I see
> > messages related to the topic appearing about a year ago, but I havent
>seen
> > any real cause identified. Anyone got any ideas?
>
> > - Steve
>
> > P.S. In the Emacs 23 and ESS 13 installation I had previously this was
>all
> > working fine. Now I wish I had saved that set-up before upgrading.
>Lesson
> > learned.



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