[ESS] ESS 15.03 released

Vincent Goulet v|ncent@gou|et @end|ng |rom me@com
Wed Apr 1 10:00:19 CEST 2015


I probably shouldn't be up at this time, but I am and my distributions are updated:

Version 24.4-modified-3 (1 April 2015)
======================================

UPDATES

o ESS 15.03


http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/emacs/


> Le 2015-04-01 à 03:15, Martin Maechler <maechler using stat.math.ethz.ch> a écrit :
> 
> 
> Dear  ESS  users,
> Last night, shortly before the end of March (= '03'), I have
> relased   ESS 15.03.
> 
> To get it, use http://ess.r-project.org/index.php?Section=download
> 
> This release is not showing off dramatically new features but
> the amount of improvements and small bug fixes is well worth
> upgrading.
> 
> For more details, the first part of the ANNOUNCE file
> is included below, notably with the  'New Features' for 15.03.
> 
> For the ESS Core Team,
> --
> Martin Maechler, 
> ETH Zurich
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 1 ANNOUNCING ESS
> ****************
> 
> The ESS Developers proudly announce the release of ESS 15.03
> 
>   Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) provides an intelligent, consistent
> interface between the user and the software.  ESS interfaces with
> R/S-PLUS, SAS, BUGS/JAGS, Stata and other statistical analysis packages
> under the UNIX, GNU Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and other
> operating systems.  ESS is a package for the GNU Emacs and XEmacs text
> editors whose features ESS uses to streamline the creation and use of
> statistical software.  ESS knows the syntax and grammar of statistical
> analysis packages and provides consistent display and editing features
> based on that knowledge.  ESS assists in interactive and batch execution
> of statements written in these statistical analysis languages.
> 
>   ESS is freely available under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
> Please read the file COPYING which comes with the distribution, for more
> information about the license.  For more detailed information, please
> read the README files that come with ESS.
> 
> 1.1 Getting the Latest Version
> ==============================
> 
> The latest released version of ESS is always available on the web at:
> ESS web page (http://ess.r-project.org) or StatLib
> (http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/ESS/)
> 
> 1.1.1 Git for ESS development
> -----------------------------
> 
> For development and experimentation on new ESS features, there is now a
> GitHub branch for ESS, available at <https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS>.
> 
> 1.2 Current Features
> ====================
> 
>   * Languages Supported:
>        * S family (R and S+ AKA S-PLUS)
>        * SAS
>        * OpenBUGS/JAGS
>        * Stata
>        * Julia
>   * Editing source code (S family, SAS, OpenBUGS/JAGS, Stata, Julia)
>        * Syntactic indentation and highlighting of source code
>        * Partial evaluation of code
>        * Loading and error-checking of code
>        * Source code revision maintenance
>        * Batch execution (SAS, OpenBUGS/JAGS)
>        * Use of imenu to provide links to appropriate functions
>   * Interacting with the process (S family, SAS, Stata, Julia)
>        * Command-line editing
>        * Searchable Command history
>        * Command-line completion of S family object names and file
>          names
>        * Quick access to object lists and search lists
>        * Transcript recording
>        * Interface to the help system
>   * Transcript manipulation (S family, Stata)
>        * Recording and saving transcript files
>        * Manipulating and editing saved transcripts
>        * Re-evaluating commands from transcript files
>   * Interaction with Help Pages and other Documentation (R)
>        * Fast Navigation
>        * Sending Examples to running ESS process.
>        * Fast Transfer to Further Help Pages
>   * Help File Editing (R)
>        * Syntactic indentation and highlighting of source code.
>        * Sending Examples to running ESS process.
>        * Previewing
> 
> 1.3 Requirements
> ================
> 
> ESS is most likely to work with current/recent versions of the following
> statistical packages: R/S-PLUS, SAS, Stata, OpenBUGS and JAGS.
> 
>   ESS supports current, and recent, stable versions of GNU Emacs
> (currently, specifically, the 23.x and 24.x series;
> alpha/beta/pre-release versions are NOT SUPPORTED). Non-Windows users
> beware: GNU Emacs 24.3 is preferable to 24.1 or 24.2: these broken
> builds suffer from bug 12463
> <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=12463> which will cause
> emacs and ESS to get progressively slower over time.
> 
>   Due to XEmacs lacking some features that ESS requires, ESS support of
> XEmacs ends with ESS 12.04-4.  This decision will be re-visited in the
> future as XEmacs continues to sync with GNU Emacs.
> 
>   To build the PDF documentation, you will need a version of TeX Live
> or texinfo that includes texi2dvi (BEWARE: recent TeX Live, and some
> texinfo RPMs, do NOT include texi2dvi).
> 
> 1.4 Stability
> =============
> 
> All recent released versions are meant to be release-quality versions.
> While some new features are being introduced, we are cleaning up and
> improving the interface.  We know that there are many remaining
> opportunities for documentation improvements, but all contributors are
> volunteers and time is precious.  Patches or suggested fixes with bug
> reports are much appreciated!
> 
> 1.5 Mailing List
> ================
> 
> There is a mailing list for discussions and announcements relating to
> ESS. Join the list by sending an e-mail with "subscribe ess-help" (or
> "help") in the body to <ess-help-request using stat.math.ethz.ch>;
> contributions to the list may be mailed to <ess-help using stat.math.ethz.ch>.
> Rest assured, this is a fairly low-volume mailing list.
> 
>   The purposes of the mailing list include
> 
>   * helping users of ESS to get along with it.
>   * discussing aspects of using ESS on Emacs and XEmacs.
>   * suggestions for improvements.
>   * announcements of new releases of ESS.
>   * posting small patches to ESS.
> 
> 1.6 Reporting Bugs
> ==================
> 
> Please send bug reports, suggestions etc.  to
> <ESS-bugs using stat.math.ethz.ch>
> 
>   The easiest way to do this is within Emacs by typing
> 
>   'M-x ess-submit-bug-report'
> 
>   This also gives the maintainers valuable information about your
> installation which may help us to identify or even fix the bug.
> 
>   If Emacs reports an error, backtraces can help us debug the problem.
> Type "M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET". Then run the
> command that causes the error and you should see a *Backtrace* buffer
> containing debug information; send us that buffer.
> 
>   Note that comments, suggestions, words of praise and large cash
> donations are also more than welcome.
> 
> 1.7 Authors
> ===========
> 
>   * A.J. Rossini (mailto:blindglobe using gmail.com)
>   * Richard M. Heiberger (mailto:rmh using temple.edu)
>   * Kurt Hornik (mailto:Kurt.Hornik using R-project.org)
>   * Martin Maechler (mailto:maechler using stat.math.ethz.ch)
>   * Rodney A. Sparapani (mailto:rsparapa using mcw.edu)
>   * Stephen Eglen (mailto:stephen using gnu.org)
>   * Sebastian P. Luque (mailto:spluque using gmail.com)
>   * Henning Redestig (mailto:henning.red using googlemail.com)
>   * Vitalie Spinu (mailto:spinuvit using gmail.com)
> 
> 1.8 License
> ===========
> 
> The source and documentation of ESS is free software.  You can
> redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
> Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
> version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
> 
>   ESS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
> ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License in
> the file COPYING in the same directory as this file for more details.
> 
> 1.9 New Features
> ================
> 
> Changes and New Features in 15.03:
>   * ESS[R]: Full native support for 'company-mode'.
>   * ESS[R]: More efficient caching algorithm for R completion.
>   * ESS: New offset variable 'ess-close-paren-offset' to control the
>     indentation of the closing parentheses.
>   * ESS[R]: Ask for CRAN mirror only once per emacs session.
>   * ESS[R]: Detect 'library' and 'require' calls for better completion
>     caching.
>   * Buffer display is now customizable ('ess-show-buffer-action').
>   * Use 'y-or-n-p' instead of 'yes-or-no-p' throughout.
>   * More support for ODS in ess-sas-graph-view.
>   * Makefiles are now both UNIX and GNU friendly.
>   * ESS[R]: Simplify directory lookup in 'ess-developer' (#137).
>   * Make closed paren indentation consistent
> 
>   Bug Fixes in 15.03:
>   * Fix open brace indentation bug (#27 in ess/R-ESS-bugs.R).
>   * Fix git version lookup
>   * Don't check directory modtime in R dialect.
>   * Declare all ess macros for edebug.
>   * Add 'ess-smart-comma' to eldoc message functions.
>   * Inform users when retrieving RDA aliases.
>   * Line ending in '~' is also a continuation line.
>   * Filing roxy paragraphs works as expected now.
>   * In 'ess-developer-add-package', remove incorrect 'wait' argument
>     from 'ess-get-words-from-vector' call.
>   * Fix #96, #117, #120, #125, #134, #137.
>   * Fix ess-quit-r.  Call base::q() even if it is masked.
>   * Fix 'ess-show-buffer' to always display the buffer in another
>     window.
>   * Makefile: Fix cd bug for directories with spaces in them
>   * 'ess-kill-buffer-and-go' modified to not restart R
> 
> [..............]
> 
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