[ESS] Start 64bit R (was: ESS 15.03 released)

Stephen Eglen S@J@Eg|en @end|ng |rom d@mtp@c@m@@c@uk
Mon Apr 6 17:51:45 CEST 2015


hi Kevin,

I vaguely remember saying that I'd take a look - why not send what you
have to us, and then I'll see how easy it is.

But if you already have a working solution, what do you need improving
(beyond us perhaps adding something like it into ESS for others
benefit)?

Stephen


On Mon, Apr 06 2015, Kevin Coombes wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've asked this before (and will probably keep asking for it until it 
> gets implemented).
>
> I just installed ESS 15.03  with Emacs 24.3 on my Windows 7 64-bit 
> machine.  When I run "M-x R" or "M-x R-newest", ESS insists on starting 
> the 32-bit version of R.  I would prefer it to start the 64-bit version. 
> Is there a variable I can set to get this as the default behavior?
>
> If not, can one at least hope that in the next version either
> [1] running the 64-bit version (if it exists)  becomes the default, or
> [2] a variable will be added that will allow the user to specify that 
> the 64-bit version should start by default?
>
> Note: I have a (probably very inefficient) elisp function that I wrote 
> (and invoke as M-x R64) that hunts for the string "-64bit" in the list 
> of R-version commands and runs the newest of those.  If you think it 
> would help, I'd be more than happy to contribute it. But it has only 
> been tested on my own machines (where it still works with ESS 15.03.)
>
> Best,
>    Kevin
>
> On 4/1/2015 3:15 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
>> 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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