[ESS] ESS-mode fails to start S-Plus in Linux

Tue Nov 20 05:42:36 CET 2018

Kim,

Try ESS 5.14 which you can get from
https://stat.ethz.ch/ESS/downloads/ess/OLD/
ess-5.14.zip            30-Jul-2011 18:18  7.0M

Unzip it into some sensible location.
Start a fresh emacs session with
   emacs -Q
to prevent the current ess from loading.
Then start the old ess by dired to the
ess-5.14/lisp/
directory, placing the cursor on ess-site.el and pressing L to load
the older ess-site

ESS 5.14 is the last version of ESS that worked correctly on Windows
with the standalone S-Plus GUI.
ESS 5.14 also works correctly on Windows with the command line Sqpe
running in the *S* window.

I am using
TIBCO Spotfire S+ Version 8.2.0 for Microsoft Windows : 2010

I have not used S-Plus with linux, so I don't know if this information
translates to the linux environment.

Rich
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 3:43 PM Vitalie Spinu via ESS-help
<ess-help using r-project.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hmm. I see the same. There is indeed too much windows machinery in that code. I
> am afraid 18.10 is pretty broken regarding Splus functionality. Even ess-remote
> doesn't work.
>
> At the moment ESS is being heavily trimmed and most of the old S+ code is
> gone, but it seem to work. Is trying master from git an option for you?
>
> Starting Splus in the shell and then doing M-x ess-remote should at least give
> you some basic evaluation capabilities.
>
>
>   Vitalie
>
>
>
> >> On Mon, Nov 19 2018 14:20, Kim Pilegaard wrote:
>
> > Dear Vitalie,
>
> > OK, I find out how to get the debugger output:
>
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "The emacs variable ‘inferior-S+-program’ does
> > not point to S-Plus 6 or 7 or 8.  Please add ‘splus[678]?/cmd’ (expand the
> > ‘[678]?’ to match your setup) to your ‘exec-path’ or specify the complete
> > path to ‘Splus.exe’ in the variable ‘inferior-S+-program’ in your
> > ‘.emacs’ file.")
> >   signal(error ("The emacs variable ‘inferior-S+-program’ does\nnot point to S-Plus 6 or 7 or 8.  Please add ‘splus[678]?/cmd’ (expand the\n‘[678]?’ to match your setup) to your ‘exec-path’ or specify the complete\npath to ‘Splus.exe’ in the variable ‘inferior-S+-program’ in your\n‘.emacs’ file."))
> >   error("The emacs variable `inferior-S+-program' does\nnot point to S-Plus 6 or 7 or 8.  Please add `splus[678]?/cmd' (expand the\n`[678]?' to match your setup) to your `exec-path' or specify the complete\npath to `Splus.exe' in the variable `inferior-S+-program' in your\n`.emacs' file.")
> >   S()
> >   funcall-interactively(S)
> >   call-interactively(S record nil)
> >   command-execute(S record)
> >   execute-extended-command(nil "S" "S")
> >   funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "S" "S")
> >   call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
> >   command-execute(execute-extended-command)
>
> > Kind regards,
> > Kim
>
> > On 19/11/2018, 15:15 , "Kim Pilegaard" <kipi using env.dtu.dk> wrote:
>
> >     Dear Vitalie,
>
> >     I assume you mean, when running with ess-18.10.
>
> >     The value of ´inferior-S+-program is´ "Splus".
>
> >     The error I get is:
>
> >     S: The emacs variable ‘inferior-S+-program’ does
> >     not point to S-Plus 6 or 7 or 8.  Please add ‘splus[678]?/cmd’ (expand the
> >     ‘[678]?’ to match your setup) to your ‘exec-path’ or specify the complete
> >     path to ‘Splus.exe’ in the variable ‘inferior-S+-program’ in your
> >     ‘.emacs’ file.
>
> >     Looks like ess thinks I am running under windows and not Linux. I am running Linux in a virtualbox under Mac OSX.
>
> >     When executing M-x toggle-debug-on-error RET, I just get the message:
>
> >     Debug on Error enabled globally
>
> >     Many thanks for your help,
> >     Kim
>
> >     On 19/11/2018, 14:22 , "Vitalie Spinu" <spinuvit using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >         Hi Kim,
>
> >         What is the value of inferior-S+-program and what is the exact error that you
> >         get? Could you please provide the traceback (M-x toggle-debug-on-error RET).
>
> >           Vitalie
>
> >         >> On Sat, Nov 17 2018 09:08, Kim Pilegaard via ESS-help wrote:
>
> >         > When trying to start S-plus 6.2.1 for linux using Emacs 25.2.1 lucid and ess-17.11.2 under Elementary OS 5.0 (based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS), I get the following error:
>
> >         > ess-command: Wrong number of arguments: #[(com &optional buf sleep) "Á!" [com ess-eval-linewise] 2
> >         > ("/usr/share/emacs25/site-lisp/ess/ess-dde.elc" . 4843)], 7
>
> >         > It seems that an S+ process is running, but when I try to issue a command, I get this error:
>
> >         > ess-get-process: No ESS process is associated with this buffer now
>
> >         > I tried with ess-18.10, but got another error telling that it could not find the
> >         > Splus program. The executable is /usr/local/bin/Splus which is covered by both
> >         > PATH and exec-path. There are no problems running R with either of the ess
> >         > versions.
>
> >         > How do I fix it?
>
> >         > Kind regards,
> >         > Kim
>
> >         > Kim Pilegaard
>
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