[ESS] Strange behaviour of ess-eval-buffer-from-beg-to-here?

[Vitalie Spinu]

I can confirm this. Last prompt is not detected for some reason.


  Vitalie

On 9 August 2017 at 19:14, Marius Hofert <marius.hofert using uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is some R code, that, when put in an R script (.R), shows some
> strange behaviour (see sessionInfo() etc. below) under ess-version:
> 16.10-1.
>
> (foo <- matrix(rnorm(100), ncol = 5))
> L <- matrix(c(2, 0, 0,
>               6, 1, 0,
>              -8, 5, 3), ncol = 3, byrow = TRUE)
> Sigma <- L %*% t(L)
> P <- cov2cor(Sigma)
> d <- ncol(P)
> n <- 1e4
> set.seed(271)
> Z <- matrix(rnorm(n * d), ncol = d)
> X <- t(L %*% t(Z))
> (T <- cor(X, method = "kendall"))
>
> If I put the curser in line 2 and execute C-c <C-up>
> (ess-eval-buffer-from-beg-to-here), the matrix 'foo' is printed.
> However, if I put the cursor in the line after the last one and
> execute C-c <C-up>, I still see the matrix 'foo' but the correlation
> matrix 'T' is not printed. (If I step through the code line-by-line, T
> is of course printed). Is this a bug?
>
> I could replicate a similar behaviour (T not printed) as above with
> C-c C-c (ess-eval-region-or-function-or-paragraph-and-step). Needless
> to say, this is frustrating if you want to show several
> outputs/variables at once in a script (for example, when teaching). I
> can't remember this ever happening before. Any ideas?
>
> I have ess-version: 16.10-1 [git:
> 58c130a1bc13c8933bde229424d628ec2b6a6a97] (loaded from
> /usr/local/ESS/)
>
> sessionInfo() is:
>
> R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin16.6.0 (64-bit)
> Running under: macOS Sierra 10.12.6
>
> Matrix products: default
> BLAS: /usr/local/R/R-3.4.1_build/lib/libRblas.dylib
> LAPACK: /usr/local/R/R-3.4.1_build/lib/libRlapack.dylib
>
> locale:
> [1] en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/C/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>  [1] copula_0.999-18   compiler_3.4.1    Matrix_1.2-10     ADGofTest_0.3
>  [5] tools_3.4.1       pspline_1.0-18    gsl_1.9-10.3      mvtnorm_1.0-6
>  [9] grid_3.4.1        pcaPP_1.9-61      numDeriv_2016.8-1 stats4_3.4.1
> [13] lattice_0.20-35   stabledist_0.7-1
>
> Thanks & cheers,
> Marius
>
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