[ESS] Anyone get "Text is read-only" issues lately?

Grant Rettke gcr at wisdomandwonder.com
Wed Nov 12 03:16:13 CET 2014


Good evening,

Someone how I've gotten my system into the state where I get the
simple error message after starting R:

"R-initialize-on-start: Text is read-only
self-insert-command: Text is read-only"

At which point I can no longer send commands to the repl or type them
in directly.

I'm a little hesitate to ask more than:

"Is anyone else facing this?"

Because I haven't seen any current posts as such.

My problem is that I literally have absolutely no clue what I changed,
and I need to start digging.

Any ideas on where I might move forward here?

What I have done:

1. Updated ess
2. Commented out .Rprofile and .Renviron.
3. Removed all ess personal configurations; only a require to 'ess-site is made.
4. Removed all Customize settings that were set.

┌────
│ (print emacs-version)
└────

┌────
│ "24.3.1"
└────

┌────
│ (print ess-version)
└────

┌────
│ "14.1x"
└────

┌────
│ (print emacs-version)
└────

┌────
│ "24.3.1"
└────

┌────
│ (print ess-version)
└────

┌────
│ "14.1x"
└────

R version, 3.1.1.

Was a little suspicious that my custom prompt was screwing up the
reader and causing the lock.

I also checked if read only mode was locked, and it was not.

Another option, I am running in-development code, this is to be expected.

Kind regards,

-- 
Grant Rettke



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