[ESS] ESS 15.09 is released

Vincent Goulet v|ncent@gou|et @end|ng |rom me@com
Fri Sep 25 18:46:45 CEST 2015


My distributions of Emacs 24.5 are now updated to ESS 15.09 and Org 8.3.1:

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

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


> Le 2015-09-24 à 07:38, Martin Maechler <maechler using stat.math.ethz.ch> a écrit :
> 
> As pre-announced (Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:11:16 +0200),
> ESS 15.09 (2015 - September) has been released now.
> 
> To get it, use http://ess.r-project.org/index.php?Section=download
> 
> The biggest changes are in indentation behavior which has become
> much more consistent and still more flexible, notably thanks to
> our new team member Lionel Henry (thank you, Lionel!)
> 
> Other improvements concern the julia interface, where now use
> and build on julia-mode.el from the Julia project.   The many
> changes of julia however have also invalidated some features of
> the ESS interface which will be addressed later.
> Several other improvements / bug fixes have been incorporated since
> the spring release  15.03.  See below for the current documented
> list of new features for 15.09.
> 
> For the ESS Core Team:
> 
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
> 
> 1 ANNOUNCING ESS
> ****************
> 
> The ESS Developers proudly announce the release of ESS 15.09
> 
>   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 15.09:
> 
>   * ESS[R]: The indentation logic has been refactored.  It should be
>     faster, more consistent and more flexible.  There are three types
>     of indentation settings, those starting with 'ess-offset-' give the
>     actual offsets, those starting with 'ess-indent-' are control
>     (commonly Boolean) variables, and those starting with 'ess-align-'
>     are vertical alignment overrides which inhibit default offsets in
>     specific situations.  See 'ess-style-alist' for detailed
>     description of the new indentation system and provided default
>     indentation styles.
> 
>   * ESS[R]: Deprecation of old indentation settings.  As a consequence
>     of the indentation re-factoring 'ess-brace-imaginary-offset',
>     'ess-expression-offset' and all delimiter-specific offsets are
>     deprecated.  The settings for indentation of continued statements
>     have been replaced by 'ess-offset-continuations'.  It can be set to
>     either 'cascade' or 'straight' (the default).
>     'ess-arg-function-offset' has been replaced by
>     'ess-indent-from-lhs' and has been generalised to assignements.
>     This setting now works with both statement blocks and expressions
>     and only takes effect for offsets set to 'prev-call' and
>     'open-delim' in order to produce a consistent indentation.
> 
>   * ESS: A test framework has been set up.
> 
>   * ESS[R]: A new RStudio style is provided to mimic as closely as
>     possible R files indented via RStudio.  To reproduce the setup of
>     some of the RStudio users, the RStudio- style with
>     'ess-offset-arguments' set to 'prev-line' is also provided.  In
>     addition, the new RRR+ style is equivalent to RRR except it indents
>     blocks in function calls relatively to the opening delimiter.  This
>     style does not try to save horizontal space and produces more
>     indentation.
> 
>   * ESS[R]: Roxygen fields will now be indented on paragraph refilling
>     in order to make the documentation more readable.  You can also
>     refill commented lines in the 'examples' field without squashing
>     the surrounding code in the comments.
> 
>   * ESS[R]: ESS can now format your code!  This is controlled through
>     the settings 'ess-fill-calls' and 'ess-fill-continuations'.  When
>     activated, '(fill-paragraph)' formats your calls and your
>     formulas/continuations while making sure they don't go past
>     'fill-column'.  Repeated refills cycle through different styles
>     (see the docstrings for more details).  By default, the refilled
>     region blinks.  Set 'ess-blink-filling' to nil to prevent this.
> 
>   * ESS[R]: Fix occasional missing error location fontification in
>     inferior buffers.
> 
>   * ESS[R]: ess-developer now correctly assigned the environment of new
>     functions to the package namespace.
> 
>   * ESS[Julia]: ?[topic] now works in the *julia* buffer.  Note that
>     support for editing Julia code now depends on 'julia-mode.el' from
>     the Julia project.  If you install ESS from the official
>     tarball/zip file, 'julia-mode.el' is already included.  Otherwise,
>     if you install ESS by running 'make', then the latest version of
>     'julia-mode.el' is downloaded (and so you need an active internet
>     connection to install) during the installation process.
>     Alternatively, if you run ESS without running 'make', then ensure
>     that you have the 'julia-mode.el', which you can get easily from
>     MELPA for example.
> 
>   * iESS: For naming inferior processes, ESS can use 'projectile''s
>     project root and it does so when
>     'ess-gen-proc-buffer-name-function' is set to
>     'ess-gen-proc-buffer-name:projectile-or-simple' as by default, or
>     to another value beginning with
>     'ess-gen-proc-buffer-name:projectile-*'.
> 
> 
>   Changes and New Features in 15.03-1:
> 
>    .............
> 
>   Changes and New Features in 15.03:
> 
>    .............
>    .............
> 
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