[ESS] ESS-mode fails to start S-Plus in Linux
Kim Pilegaard
kipi @ending from env@dtu@dk
Tue Nov 20 16:52:16 CET 2018
Rich,
Thanks for the suggestion. I installed ESS 15.09.2 which works perfectly for S-Plus 6.2.1 for Linux.
I will give up the newer versions for now. However, it would be nice to be able to use the new features.
Kim
On 20/11/2018, 05:43 , "Richard M. Heiberger" <rmh using temple.edu> wrote:
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
>
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