[ESS] Using ESS with S-plus 8.1

[Richard M. Heiberger]

The etiquette of this list is to stay on the list.  I am ccing the
reply to the list.

On my 64-bit Windows 8.1 with ESS 13.09-2

inferior-S+-program-name
"c:/PROGRA~2/TIBCO/splus82/cmd/Splus"

inferior-S-program-name
"Splus"

M-x S on Windows doesn't work with current ESS.  That is part of what
we need to repair.


Do you have your S-Plus in a non-standard location?

If you get a message about sh, that means you don't have cygwin on your
system.
In that case you need to use
M-x S+6-msdos-existing
It still won't work with current ESS for talking to the S-Plus (S+) GUI.
It doesn't crash.  It just locks up emacs.  Use C-g a few times to unlock it.

Until the repair is made, you will have to use an older ESS.
You can get the older ESS from the site
http://ess.r-project.org
click on the Download tab, and then on the archive link.

As I wrote yesterday, ESS 5.14 works in your situation.

M-x Sqpe opens an *S+* buffer in iESS mode.  It has a running S+ in it.
You can type directly or you can use C-x C-n commands from your myfile.s
in ESS[S] mode.

Rich

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Tayler Lawrence Jones
<t.jonesd289 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the insight Richard!
>
> When I run M-x Sqpe, a *S+* buffer does open, but it does not have an S+
> process; it just appears to be a mode-less text editing buffer.
>
> I did receive this error:
> S+: The emacs variable `inferior-S+-program-name' does
> not point to S-Plus 6 or 7 or 8.  Please add `splus[678]?/cmd' (expand the
> `[678]?' to match your setup) to your `exec-path' or specify the complete
> path to `Splus.exe' in the variable `inferior-S+-program-name' in your
> `.emacs' file.
>
> So I made that edit to my .emacs (before I had just been setting
> 'inferior-S-program-name", without the "+"). Now when I try M-x S, I get
> this error:
> "apply: Searching for program: permission denied, sh". I am the only user on
> this computer and have full permissions, so I don't know why I would get
> this error.
>
> M-x S+6msdoes-existing still leads to a hang up and crash.
>
>
> I will keep playing around to try and get this to work... I know there must
> be a way!
>
> Thanks again!
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh at temple.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I am now at home on a Windows 8 machine.
>>
>> M-x Sqpe with current ESS starts S+ correctly.
>> There is a nuisance behavior.  You must manually switch to the *S+*
>> buffer.
>>
>> M-x S-existing in current ESS is not working.  I don't understand why,
>> but I have a workaround.
>>
>> Back up to an old ESS.  I used 5.14.
>> Then M-x S+6-msdos-existing has the anticipated behavior.
>> It talks to the already running S+ 8.2 GUI process.
>>
>> The specific behavior that is wrong is that the current ESS opens *S+* in
>> iESS
>> mode.  For the purpose of talking to an S+ GUI, the correct behavior is to
>> open *S* in ddeESS mode.
>>
>> I will report back to the ESS-help list once we figure this out and repair
>> it.
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh at temple.edu>
>> wrote:
>> > It works fine for me.
>> >
>> > I just did M-x Sqpe on a vista system and all is well.
>> >
>> > I will try again at home with Windows 7 and 8.  I expect that it will
>> > work.
>> >
>> > M-x S+6-existing has been giving me problems for a while.  My solution
>> > is to use M-x Sqpe
>> >
>> > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Tayler Lawrence Jones
>> > <t.jonesd289 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Hello all,
>> >>
>> >> I'm working on a project that is in S+ 8.1, and I am using Windows 7
>> >> with
>> >> the latest packaged ESS from Vincent. The folder to splus.exe and
>> >> sqpe.exe
>> >> is in PATH.
>> >>
>> >> Is there anyway to get that version of S+ running in ESS?
>> >> R works no problem. S+, however, is nothing but trouble.
>> >>
>> >> M-x S tells me to run from icon, then use M-x S-existing.
>> >> Doing so with M-x S-existing causes emacs to hang up and crash.
>> >> M-x Sqpe lets me select a starting directory, but then gives the error
>> >> 'spawning child process: invalid argument' and nothing happens.
>> >>
>> >> I have tried adding these lines of code to my .emacs file (based on
>> >> some
>> >> outdated mailing list threads), but the result is the same:
>> >>
>> >> (require 'ess-site)(setq-default inferior-S-program-name "C://Program
>> >> Files (x86)//TIBCO//splus81//cmd//SPLUS.exe")(setq-default
>> >> inferior-Sqpe-program-name "C://Program Files
>> >> (x86)//TIBCO//splus81//cmd//sqpe.exe")
>> >>
>> >> Note: I have tried with single slashes as well.
>> >>
>> >> I get the same result if I do S+6, Sqpe+6, etc.
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone know if this is even possible? I am an emacs fiend, so it
>> >> drives me crazy that S+ won't work in ESS for me.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for any help!
>> >>
>> >> PS - I am in the process of porting the code to R, but it needs to be
>> >> utilized in the interim. So, unfortunately, just using R is not an
>> >> option
>> >> right now.
>> >>
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