[ESS] Error starting R

[Jeremie Juste]

Hello,

Glad you could sort it out.
I think version controling the .emacs file and the .emacs.d directory
could help solve these issues faster. You could easily go back to a
previous working version. This might be helpful if you are in a
situation where you really need things to work.

I'm currently exploring this idea but I don't know the full pros and
cons of this method.



Best regards,
Jeremie



> Timely
>
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 at 20:16, Alex Branham <alex.branham using gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> > I've tried disabling ess-smart-underscore as Alex suggests but no joy.
>>
>> I'm not familiar with how this package works but disabling it (by
>> removing the "require" from your init file) might not be enough. Emacs's
>> package manager autoloads some functionality if the package is simply
>> installed on your system. It doesn't do this if you do "emacs -Q", which
>> might explain why you don't see this error then.
>>
>> Timely as I've just been playing around and you are absolutely right,
> simply commenting out ess-smart-underscore from the settings wasn't
> sufficient.  I decided to try manually delete it and ess from
> ~/.emacs.d/elpa/ess* completely and lo-and-behold  I can now start R under
> Emacs/ESS with M-x R again.
>
> However, this is from the system-wide install of Emacs (currently ess-17.11
> under Gentoo).
>
> I did try installing just ess-20181003.1614 after seeing it had been
> updated today but that didn't work either.
>
> For me personally thats not a problem as I'm happy with not having the
> latest ESS, and I won't miss the functionality of ess-smart-underscore.
>
> As an aside it doesn't look like ess-smart-underscore is that old, current
> version on MELPA is from last month 20180911.523, some of the other ess
> packages are very old (ess-smart-equals was last updated 2015;
> ess-R-data-view 2013).
>
> If there is anything I can do to help fathom out what is going on let me
> know. I've included the debug from installing ess-20181003.1614 below for
> reference.  This happens after installing from MELPA under the same Emacs
> instance, no restarting.  If I delete ~/.emacs.d/elpa/ess-20181003.1614 and
> restart Emacs M-x R works fine (as its using ess-17.11 from the main
> system).
>
> Thanks to yourself and Jeremie for your help and to all
> developers/maintainers.
>
> Neil
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument consp nil)
>   byte-code("\301\302 \"\303\241\210\301\304
> \"\305\241\210\306\307\300\"\207" [ess-r-customize-alist assoc
> ess-font-lock-keywords (quote ess-R-font-lock-keywords)
> inferior-ess-font-lock-keywords (quote inferior-ess-r-font-lock-keywords)
> defalias R-customize-alist] 3)
>   autoload-do-load((autoload "ess-r-mode" "Call 'R', the 'GNU S' system
> from the R Foundation.\nOptional prefix (\\[universal-argument]) allows to
> set command line arguments, such as\n--vsize.  This should be OS
> agnostic.\nIf you have certain command line arguments that should always be
> passed\nto R, put them in the variable `inferior-R-args'.\n\nSTART-ARGS can
> be a string representing an argument, a list of\nsuch strings, or any other
> non-nil value.  In the latter case, you\nwill be prompted to enter
> arguments interactively.\n\n(fn &optional START-ARGS)" t nil) R)
>   command-execute(R record)
>   execute-extended-command(nil "R" "R")
>   funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "R" "R")
>   call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
>   command-execute(execute-extended-command)
> --
> *Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high **degree
> of improbability.* - R.A. Fisher
>
> *Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge* - Charles
> Darwin
>
> PGP Public : https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x0E7ECE9C10D7B4A0
>
> Website - http://kimura.no-ip.info/
> Photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/slackline/
>
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> ______________________________________________
> ESS-help using r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help