[ESS] starting Stata process

[Dale Steele]

Thanks to all who have replied.  Previous to this, I've been happily using
the version of ess provided by Michael Rutter on his RuttR repository:

https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/ubuntu/rrutter

After disabling the RuttR repository - I reinstalled ess (v13.09-1)  from
the ubuntu package manager and removed the version installed by the emacs
package manager.

Now M-x stata works as expected.

Does seem like my issue is related to an as yet unclear issue with ess as
installed by the elpha.

I've emailed Michael Rutter to report the issue pasted below.

Thanks.  --Dale


The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 ess : Depends: emacsen-common (>= 2.0.8) but 2.0.7 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Ista Zahn <istazahn using gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Dale Steele <dale.w.steele using gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > The function you need is "M-x stata"  (lower case; there is M-x
> > Stata-mode).
> >
> > Does that work?  --> "M-x stata" produces  "[no match]"
>
> It works here.
>
> > Same result running emacs after removing all entries in .emacs
>
> Well, you don't want to remove _all_ entries, of course you need to load
> ess.
>
> It sounds like ESS is either not correctly installed or not correclty
> loaded. I would start by uninstalling and re-installing it, and
> makeing sure you have '(require 'ess-site)' in your init file.
>
> Another possiblity is that you have multiple versions of ESS installed
> and emacs gets confused. Did you by any chance install both the ess
> ubuntu package and ess via the emacs package manager?
>
> Best,
> Ista
> >
> > To check emacs can find it, try
> > M-x shell
> >
> > and then try to run stata within that shell:
> >
> > $ stata
> >
> > --> Yes, I can run stata within shell evoked by M-x shell
> >
> > Appreciate the responses.  --Dale
> >
> > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Stephen Eglen <
> S.J.Eglen using damtp.cam.ac.uk>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> > M-x R  --> works fine
> >> >
> >> > M-x Stata --> [no match]
> >> >
> >> > I've installed Stata 14 in /usr/local/stata14 with a symbolic link
> from
> >> > /usr/local/stata (also added /usr/local/stata) to PATH
> >>
> >> The function you need is "M-x stata"  (lower case; there is M-x
> >> Stata-mode).
> >>
> >> Does that work?
> >>
> >> To check emacs can find it, try
> >> M-x shell
> >>
> >> and then try to run stata within that shell:
> >>
> >> $ stata
> >>
> >>
> >
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