[ESS] ESS, devtools, and documentation

[Vitalie Spinu]

Strange. Would be nice to have a reproducible example.

>From ESS, what do you see when you do

  print(help("Park_Falls"))

 Vitalie

 >>> "Timothy W. Hilton" on Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:50:44 -0700 wrote:

 > Hi Vitalie,
 > Thanks for your quick response!  I meant that it works when I start R
 > within my terminal (iTerm2 on my mac), but I just checked and it also
 > does work when I start R within emacs shell prompt (aka M-x shell)
 > (transcript below).

 > Thanks,
 > Tim

 > ==================================================
 > tim at ucmerced007-206 ~/work/Code/VPRM
 >   % R
 > R
 > ]2;R]1;R
 > R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10) -- "Sock it to Me"
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 > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0 (64-bit)

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 >   Natural language support but running in an English locale

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 > Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
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 > Type 'q()' to quit R.

 >> library(devtools)
 > library(devtools)
 >> load_all('VPRM_Rpkg')
 > load_all('VPRM_Rpkg')
 > Loading VPRMLandSfcModel
 >> ?Park_Falls
 > ?Park_Falls
 > WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
 > -  (press RETURN)
 > Park_Falls              package:VPRM_Rpkg              R Documentation

 > Park Falls, Wisconsin, USA eddy covariance data and MODIS data

 > Description:

 >      The dataset Park_Falls contains MODIS observations as well as
 >      ground-based eddy covariance flux tower data for the Ameriflux
 >      tall tower located in Park Falls, Wisconsin, USA.  The data span
 >      the period 1 May 2005 through 31 July 2005.

 > etc., etc.
 > ==================================================

 > On Thu, Oct 2014, 16 at 09:46:29AM -0700, Vitalie Spinu wrote:
 >> 
 >> There should be no difference.
 >> 
 >> Do you mean that it works in emacs shell prompt (aka M-x shell)?
 >> 
 >> Vitalie
 >> 
 >> >>> "Timothy W. Hilton" on Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:25:41 -0700 wrote:
 >> 
 >> > Hi,
 >> > I'm unable to access documentation for an R package I'm developing while
 >> > using devtools within ESS.  Starting R within ESS and attempting to
 >> > access some docs that I wrote:
 >> 
 >> > M-x R
 >> >> library(devtools)
 >> >> load_all('VPRM_Rpckg')
 >> >> ?Park_Falls
 >> 
 >> > A message then appears in the minibuffer:
 >> > No documentation for ‘Park_Falls’ in specified packages and libraries:
 >> 
 >> > If I start R from the shell prompt the above sequence displays the
 >> > documentation for Park_Falls, as expected.
 >> 
 >> > ess-version: 14.09 [svn: 6041 (2014-09-13)] (loaded from /Users/tim/.emacs.d/ess-14.09/)
 >> > GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.21) of
 >> > 2014-10-08 on Timothys-MacBook-Air.local
 >> 
 >> > Any advice much appreciated!  I really love coding in ESS but accessing
 >> > my own documentation is pretty important to me as I try to finalize this
 >> > package I'm working on.
 >> 
 >> > As always, thanks for making the excellent ESS available to the
 >> > community!
 >> 
 >> > best,
 >> > Tim
 >> 
 >> > --
 >> 
 >> > Timothy W. Hilton
 >> > Assistant Project Scientist
 >> > School of Engineering
 >> > University of California, Merced
 >> > thilton at ucmerced.edu
 >> 
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