[ESS] M-n s is undefined

[Ottorino]

Hi Christopher

I'm in the very same situation; wanting to learn knitr and to be 
productive with Sweave as usual.
I use two alternative emacs configuration


New configuration,

emacs (from terminal)
and it starts with a fairly complicate (at least for me) emacs init (you 
can find it here, https://github.com/kjhealy) which uses org and 
polymode and knitr and ... and . and..


Old configuration,
emacs -q -l ~/.emacs.d/ALT/.emacsOLD (from terminal)

which start emacs the way I was used to with Sweave ( M-n-s, M-n P are 
working).

I can send you my init files of the second configuration which was taken 
By Vincent Goulet ans modified to my taste/need.

Hope this helps
Ottorino

Ottorino-Luca Pantani, Università di Firenze
Dip.to di Scienze delle Produzioni Agroalimentari e dell'Ambiente (DISPAA)
P.zle Cascine 28 50144 Firenze Italia
Mint 17.1 Rebecca -- Cinnamon GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86-64-pc-linux-gnu, 
GTK+ Version 3.10.7)
ESS version 16.04 -- R 3.3.1

Il 29/06/2016 05:42, Christopher W. Ryan ha scritto:
> I have been using Vince's modified version of emacs/ess for a very long
> time. M-n s always reliably weaved .Rnw to .tex, and then M-n P reliably
> generated .pdf from .tex.  It was easy, out-of-the-box, emacs asked me
> no questions.  I guess I got spoiled.
>
> I would like to learn and try using knitr and Rmarkdown.  From things I
> read, that may be the way to go for the future. And allegedly easier to
> teach beginners, which I may have occasion to do soon. Maybe I need
> polymode for that.  But I have to be able to maintain my current
> R/Sweave/Latex workflow for production documents, until I am up to speed
> with knitr and friends.
>
> Another thing I noticed--when I generate a pdf file, all the
> undecipherable pdf output is *also* sent to the R output buffer in
> emacs.  Very strange and distracting.
>
> --Chris Ryan
>
> Vincent Goulet wrote:
>> I'm also struggling at times. Please see this (fairly) recent thread:
>>
>> 	https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/ess-help/2016-April/010932.html
>>
>> v.
>>
>>> Le 28 juin 2016 à 17:06, Christopher W. Ryan <cryan using binghamton.edu> a écrit :
>>>
>>> Still struggling.
>>>
>>> Do I have to alter my .emacs file, as described here:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/vspinu/polymode/blob/master/readme.md
>>>
>>> When I did that, I got some response from M-n w and from M-n e while working with an .Rnw file.  Namely, I was asked for name of weaver from the former, and name of exporter from the latter.  I had to guess. Then from the exporter, I was asked export to what?  Again I guessed, typing PDF.  End result was several new files, the usual .tex, .aux, and .log files, and a .pdf file but with [woven] and/or [woven][exported] in the file name.  All very cumbersome.
>>>
>>> How do I arrange things so that emacs/ess will automatically "do the right thing" with .Rnw files, as it did before?
>>>
>>> Barring that, is an older, pre-polymode version of Vince's emacs/ess still available for download?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> --Chris Ryan
>>>
>>> Vitalie Spinu wrote:
>>>> There are 4 primary keys in polymode
>>>>
>>>>    https://github.com/vspinu/polymode#basic-usage
>>>>
>>>> as it doesn't struggle to assign a key to every export/weave format.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   Vitalie
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Jun 26 2016 23:04, Christopher W. Ryan wrote:
>>>>> Thanks.  I'll admit I'm having some trouble finding straightforward
>>>>> documentation on how to simply use polymode/ESS.  Best I've found so far
>>>>> is this:
>>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/ess-help/2014-May/009926.html
>>>>> from which I infer that M-n e might take an .Rnw file all the way
>>>>> through to a .pdf file . . . does that sound right?  I won't be back at
>>>>> my new computer for a while to try it out.
>>>>> --Chris
>>>>> Vincent Goulet wrote:
>>>>>> Chris,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Polymode is active by default in my distribution and its key binding for sweaving are different. Look up its documentation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> v.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Le 26 juin 2016 à 16:43, Christopher W. Ryan <cryan using binghamton.edu> a écrit :
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello. I just set up a new computer, running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. I
>>>>>>> installed R 3.3.1, then MikTeX 2.9, then Vince Goulet's version of emacs
>>>>>>> 24.5.1 with ESS. Those are all on drive C:\, a 250 Gb solid state drive.  My
>>>>>>> data files and documents are on drive E:\, a terabyte hard drive.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In emacs, when I have an .Rnw buffer open, M-n s  is met with the error message in the subject line.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sweave.sty is in C:\LOCALTEXMF\Tex\latex\Sweave
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> which I listed as a root in MikTeX Admin.  And I refreshed the FNDB, both as a user and as Admin.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How can I get M-n s  (and I assume I'll have a problem with M-P as well) recognized as command to sweave my file?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --Chris
>>>>>>>
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