[ESS] ESS 18.10-1 patch released

William McCoy wdmccoy @end|ng |rom geo@um@@@@edu
Wed Oct 24 18:26:12 CEST 2018


This newest release, ESS 18.10-1, does not yet appear on MELPA yet.  Is 
it on its way there?


On 10/23/18 3:37 PM, Martin Maechler via ESS-help wrote:
> The ESS 18.10 release (of 3 days ago) had shown some small but
> obnoxious problems  which have been fixed now, and hence we have
> created a patch release (to 18.10),  18.10-1  which should use
> *instead* of 18.10.
> 
> Download from "Downloads" on https://ess.r-project.org/ or also
> directly at     https://stat.ethz.ch/ESS/downloads/ess/?C=M;O=D
> 
> -------------
> 
> Relatedly, I'm happy to note explicitly that the ESS
> core team has a new active and very competent member,
> J. Alexander (Alex) Branham.
> 
> He's been actively contributing already starting as early as
> March 2017, and has been formally and successfully invited to
> join the ESS core on Sep 6, 2018.
> 
> We're all happy and grateful to be to have him on board!
> 
> -------------
> 
> The only new entry in the 'new features' list is
> 
> Changes and New Features in 18.10-1:
> 
>     * New functions 'ess-eval-line-visibly-and-step' ('C-c C-n' and
>       'ess-eval-region-or-line-visibly-and-step' ('C-RET') which behave
>       as the old versions of 'ess-eval-line-and-step' and
>       'ess-eval-region-or-line-and-step'.
> 
> In the name of the ESS core team,
> Martin Maechler
> 
> 
>>>>>> Martin Maechler via ESS-help
>>>>>>      on Sat, 20 Oct 2018 22:29:21 +0200 writes:
> 
>> Dear ESS Users
>> it's a pleasure to announce the release of
>>
>>       ESS 18.10 (2018 October)
>>
>> of a few minutes ago in the name of the ESS core team.
>>
>> There have been many changes and improvements since the last
>> official release 17.11 (in last November)
>>
>> For the complete list of (documented) new features and bug
>> fixes, read the following (beginning of file 'ANNOUNCE') to the end.
>>
>> In the name of the ESS core team, with thanks to all helpers,
>> notably by github pull requests,
>>
>> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>>
>>
>>
>> 1 ANNOUNCING ESS
>> ****************
>>
>> The ESS Developers proudly announce the release of ESS 18.10
>>
>>     Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) provides an intelligent, consistent
>> interface between the user and the software.  ESS interfaces with
>> R/S-PLUS, SAS, BUGS/JAGS, Stata and other statistical analysis packages
>> under the UNIX, GNU Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS and other operating
>> systems.  ESS is a package for the GNU Emacs and XEmacs text editors
>> whose features ESS uses to streamline the creation and use of
>> statistical software.  ESS knows the syntax and grammar of statistical
>> analysis packages and provides consistent display and editing features
>> based on that knowledge.  ESS assists in interactive and batch execution
>> of statements written in these statistical analysis languages.
>>
>>     ESS is freely available under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
>> Please read the file COPYING which comes with the distribution, for more
>> information about the license.  For more detailed information, please
>> read the README files that come with ESS.
>>
>> 1.1 Getting the Latest Version
>> ==============================
>>
>> ESS supports GNU Emacs versions 24.3 and newer.
>>
>>     ESS is most likely to work with current/recent versions of the
>> following statistical packages: R/S-PLUS, SAS, Stata, OpenBUGS and JAGS.
>>
>>     To build the PDF documentation, you will need a version of TeX Live
>> or texinfo that includes texi2dvi.
>>
>>     There are two main methods used for installing ESS. You may install
>> from a third-party repository or from source code.  Once you install it,
>> you must also activate or load ESS in each Emacs session, though
>> installation from a third-party repository likely takes care of that for
>> you.  See *note Activating and Loading ESS:: for more details.
>>
>> 1.2 Installing from a third-party repository
>> ============================================
>>
>> ESS is packaged by many third party repositories.  Many GNU/Linux
>> distributions package it, usually with the name "emacs-ess" or similar.
>>
>>     ESS is also available through Milkypostman’s Emacs Lisp Package
>> Archive (MELPA), a popular repository for Emacs packages.  Instructions
>> on how to do so are found on MELPA's website (https://melpa.org/).
>> MELPA also hosts MELPA-stable with stable ESS builds.  You may choose
>> between MELPA with the latest and greatest features (and bugs) or
>> MELPA-stable, which may lag a bit behind but should be more stable.
>>
>>     After installing, users should make sure ESS is activated or loaded
>> in each Emacs session.  See *note Activating and Loading ESS::.
>> Depending on install method, this may be taken care of automatically.
>>
>> 1.3 Installing from source
>> ==========================
>>
>> Stable versions of ESS are available at the ESS web page
>> (https://ess.r-project.org) as a .tgz file or .zip file.  ESS releases
>> are GPG-signed, you should check the signature by downloading the
>> accompanying '.sig' file and doing:
>>
>>       gpg --verify ess-18.10.tgz.sig
>>
>>     Alternatively, you may download the git repository.  ESS is currently
>> hosted on Github: <https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS>.  'git clone
>> https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS.git' will download it to a new
>> directory 'ESS' in the current working directory.
>>
>>     We will refer to the location of the ESS source files as
>> '/path/to/ESS/' hereafter.
>>
>>     After installing, users should make sure they activate or load ESS in
>> each Emacs session, see *note Activating and Loading ESS::
>>
>>     Optionally, compile elisp files, build the documentation, and the
>> autoloads:
>>       cd /path/to/ESS/
>>       make
>>     Without this step the documentation, reference card, and autoloads
>> will not be available.  Uncompiled ESS will also run slower.
>>
>>     Optionally, you may make ESS available to all users of a machine by
>> installing it site-wide.  To do so, run 'make install'.  You might need
>> administrative privileges:
>>
>>       make install
>>
>>     The files are installed into '/usr/share/emacs' directory.  For this
>> step to run correctly on macOS, you will need to adjust the 'PREFIX'
>> path in 'Makeconf'.  The necessary code and instructions are commented
>> in that file.
>>
>> 1.4 Activating and Loading ESS
>> ==============================
>>
>> After installing ESS, you must activate or load it each Emacs session.
>> ESS can be autoloaded, and if you used a third-party repository (such as
>> your Linux distribution or MELPA) to install, you can likely skip this
>> section and proceed directly to *note Check Installation::
>>
>>     Otherwise, you may need to add the path to ESS to 'load-path' with:
>>
>>       (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/ESS/lisp")
>>
>>     You then need to decide whether to take advantage of deferred loading
>> (which will result in a faster Emacs startup time) or require ESS when
>> Emacs is loaded.  To autoload ESS when needed (note that if installed
>> from source, you must have run 'make'):
>>
>>       (load "ess-autoloads")
>>
>>     To require ESS on startup, you can either put
>>
>>       (require 'ess-site)
>>
>>     or
>>
>>       (require 'ess-r-mode)
>>
>>     In your configuration file, depending on whether you want all ESS
>> features or only R related features.
>>
>> 1.5 Check Installation
>> ======================
>>
>> Restart Emacs and check that ESS was loaded from a correct location with
>> 'M-x ess-version'.
>>
>> 1.6 Current Features
>> ====================
>>
>>     * Languages Supported:
>>          * S family (R, S, and S+ AKA S-PLUS)
>>          * SAS
>>          * BUGS/JAGS
>>          * Stata
>>          * Julia
>>     * Editing source code (S family, SAS, BUGS/JAGS, Stata, Julia)
>>          * Syntactic indentation and highlighting of source code
>>          * Partial evaluation of code
>>          * Loading and error-checking of code
>>          * Source code revision maintenance
>>          * Batch execution (SAS, BUGS/JAGS)
>>          * Use of imenu to provide links to appropriate functions
>>     * Interacting with the process (S family, SAS, Stata, Julia)
>>          * Command-line editing
>>          * Searchable Command history
>>          * Command-line completion of S family object names and file
>>            names
>>          * Quick access to object lists and search lists
>>          * Transcript recording
>>          * Interface to the help system
>>     * Transcript manipulation (S family, Stata)
>>          * Recording and saving transcript files
>>          * Manipulating and editing saved transcripts
>>          * Re-evaluating commands from transcript files
>>     * Interaction with Help Pages and other Documentation (R)
>>          * Fast Navigation
>>          * Sending Examples to running ESS process.
>>          * Fast Transfer to Further Help Pages
>>     * Help File Editing (R)
>>          * Syntactic indentation and highlighting of source code.
>>          * Sending Examples to running ESS process.
>>          * Previewing
>>
>> 1.7 Requirements
>> ================
>>
>> ESS supports GNU Emacs versions 24.3 and newer.
>>
>>     ESS is most likely to work with current/recent versions of the
>> following statistical packages: R/S-PLUS, SAS, Stata, OpenBUGS and JAGS.
>>
>>     To build the PDF documentation, you will need a version of TeX Live
>> or texinfo that includes texi2dvi.
>>
>> 1.8 Mailing List
>> ================
>>
>> There is a mailing list for discussions and announcements relating to
>> ESS. Join the list by sending an e-mail with "subscribe ess-help" (or
>> "help") in the body to <ess-help-request using r-project.org>; contributions
>> to the list may be mailed to <ess-help using r-project.org>.  Rest assured,
>> this is a fairly low-volume mailing list.
>>
>>     The purposes of the mailing list include
>>
>>     * helping users of ESS to get along with it.
>>     * discussing aspects of using ESS on Emacs and XEmacs.
>>     * suggestions for improvements.
>>     * announcements of new releases of ESS.
>>     * posting small patches to ESS.
>>
>> 1.9 Reporting Bugs
>> ==================
>>
>> Please send bug reports, suggestions etc.  to <ESS-bugs using r-project.org>,
>> or post them on our github issue tracker
>> (https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/issues)
>>
>>     The easiest way to do this is within Emacs by typing
>>
>>     'M-x ess-submit-bug-report'
>>
>>     This also gives the maintainers valuable information about your
>> installation which may help us to identify or even fix the bug.
>>
>>     If Emacs reports an error, backtraces can help us debug the problem.
>> Type "M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET". Then run the
>> command that causes the error and you should see a *Backtrace* buffer
>> containing debug information; send us that buffer.
>>
>>     Note that comments, suggestions, words of praise and large cash
>> donations are also more than welcome.
>>
>> 1.10 Authors
>> ============
>>
>>     * A.J. Rossini (mailto:blindglobe using gmail.com)
>>     * Richard M. Heiberger (mailto:rmh using temple.edu)
>>     * Kurt Hornik (mailto:Kurt.Hornik using R-project.org)
>>     * Martin Maechler (mailto:maechler using stat.math.ethz.ch)
>>     * Rodney A. Sparapani (mailto:rsparapa using mcw.edu)
>>     * Stephen Eglen (mailto:stephen using gnu.org)
>>     * Sebastian P. Luque (mailto:spluque using gmail.com)
>>     * Henning Redestig (mailto:henning.red using googlemail.com)
>>     * Vitalie Spinu (mailto:spinuvit using gmail.com)
>>     * Lionel Henry (mailto:lionel.hry using gmail.com)
>>     * J. Alexander Branham (mailto:alex.branham using gmail.com)
>>
>> 1.11 License
>> ============
>>
>> The source and documentation of ESS is free software.  You can
>> redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
>> Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
>> version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
>>
>>     ESS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
>> ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
>> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License in
>> the file COPYING in the same directory as this file for more details.
>>
>> 1.12 New Features
>> =================
>>
>> Changes and New Features in 18.10:
>>
>>     * This is the last release to support Emacs older than 25.1.  Going
>>       forward, only GNU Emacs 25.1 and newer will be supported.  Soon
>>       after this release, support for older Emacs versions will be
>>       dropped from the git master branch.  Note that MELPA uses the git
>>       master branch to produce ESS snapshots, so if you are using Emacs <
>>       25.1 from MELPA and are unable to upgrade, you should switch to
>>       MELPA-stable.
>>
>>     * ESS now displays the language dialect in the mode-line.  So, for
>>       example, R buffers will now show ESS[R] rather than ESS[S].
>>
>>     * The ESS manual has been updated and revised.
>>
>>     * The ESS initialization process has been further streamlined.  If
>>       you update the autoloads (which installation from 'package-install'
>>       does), you should not need to '(require 'ess-site)' at all, as
>>       autoloads should automatically load ESS when it is needed (e.g.
>>       the first time an R buffer is opened).  In order to defer loading
>>       your ESS config, you may want to do something like
>>       '(with-require-after-load "ess" <ess-config-here>)' in your Emacs
>>       init file.  Users of the popular 'use-package' Emacs package can
>>       now do '(use-package ess :defer t)' to take advantage of this
>>       behavior.  *Note (ess)Activating and Loading ESS:: for more
>>       information on this feature.
>>
>>     * ESS now respects Emacs conventions for keybindings.  This means
>>       that The 'C-c [letter]' bindings have been removed.  This affects
>>       'C-c h', which was bound to 'ess-eval-line-and-step-invisibly' in
>>       'sas-mode-local-map'; 'C-c f', which was bound to
>>       'ess-insert-function-outline' in 'ess-add-MM-keys'; and 'C-c h',
>>       which was bound to 'ess-handy-commands' in 'Rd-mode-map',
>>       'ess-noweb-minor-mode-map', and 'ess-help-mode-map'
>>
>>     * ESS[R]: 'ess-r-package-use-dir' now works with any mode.  This sets
>>       the working directory to the root of the current package including
>>       for example C or C++ files within '/src').
>>
>>     * ESS[R]: Long + + prompts in the inferior no longer offset output.
>>
>>     * ESS[R]: New option 'strip' for 'inferior-ess-replace-long+'.  This
>>       strips the entire + + sequence.
>>
>>     * ESS modes now inherit from 'prog-mode'.  In the next release, ESS
>>       modes will use 'define-derived-mode' so that each mode will have
>>       (for example) its own hooks and keymaps.
>>
>>     * ESS[R]: Supports flymake in R buffers for Emacs 26 and newer.
>>       Users need to install the 'lintr' package to use it.  Customizable
>>       options include 'ess-use-flymake', 'ess-r-flymake-linters', and
>>       'ess-r-flymake-lintr-cache'.
>>
>>     * ESS[R]: Gained support for xref in Emacs 25+.  *Note (emacs)Xref::
>>
>>     * ESS[R]: The startup screen is cleaner.  It also displays the
>>       startup directory with an explicit 'setwd()'.
>>
>>     * ESS[R]: Changing the working directory is now always reflected in
>>       the process buffer.
>>
>>     * ESS[R]: 'Makevars' files open with 'makefile-mode'.
>>
>>     * New variable 'ess-write-to-dribble'.  This allows users to disable
>>       the dribble ('*ESS*') buffer if they wish.
>>
>>     * All of the '*-program-name' variables have been renamed to
>>       '*-program'.  Users who previously customized e.g.
>>       'inferior-ess-R-program-name' will need to update their
>>       customization to 'inferior-ess-R-program'.  These variables are
>>       treated as risky variables.
>>
>>     * 'ess-smart-S-assign' was renamed to 'ess-insert-assign'.  It
>>       provides similar functionality but for any keybinding, not just
>>       '_'.  For instance if you bind it to ';', repeated invokations
>>       cycle through between assignment and inserting ';'.
>>
>>     * 'C-c C-=' is now bound to 'ess-cycle-assign' by default.  See the
>>       documentation for details.  New user customization option
>>       'ess-assign-list' controls which assignment operators are cycled.
>>
>>     * ESS[R] In remote sessions, the ESSR package is now fetched from
>>       GitHub.
>>
>>     * Commands that send the region to the inferior process now deal with
>>       rectangular regions.  See the documentation of 'ess-eval-region'
>>       for details.  This only works on Emacs 25.1 and newer.
>>
>>     * ESS[R]: Improvements to interacting with iESS in non-R files.
>>       Interaction with inferior process in non-R files within packages
>>       (for instance C or C++ files) has been improved.  This is a work in
>>       progress.
>>
>>     * ESS[R]: Changing the working directory is now always reflected in
>>       the process buffer.
>>
>>     * ESS[JAGS]: *.jog and *.jmd files no longer automatically open in
>>       JAGS mode.
>>
>>     Many improvements to fontification:
>>
>>     * Improved customization for faces.  ESS now provides custom faces
>>       for (nearly) all faces used and places face customization options
>>       into their own group.  Users can customize these options using 'M-x
>>       customize-group RET ess-faces'.
>>
>>     * Many new keywords were added to 'ess-R-keywords' and
>>       'ess-R-modifiers'.  See the documentation for details.
>>
>>     * ESS[R]: 'in' is now only fontified when inside a 'for' construct.
>>       This avoids spurious fontification, especially in the output buffer
>>       where 'in' is a commond English word.
>>
>>     * ESS: Font-lock keywords are now generated lazily.  That means you
>>       can now add or remove keywords from variables like 'ess-R-keywords'
>>       in your Emacs configuration file after loading ESS (i.e.  in the
>>       ':config' section for 'use-package' users).
>>
>>     * ESS[R]: Fontification of roxygen '@param' keywords now supports
>>       comma-separated parameters.
>>
>>     * ESS[R]: Certain keywords are only fontified if followed by a
>>       parenthesis.  Function-like keywords such as 'if ()' or 'stop()'
>>       are no longer fontified as keyword if not followed by an opening
>>       parenthesis.  The same holds for search path modifiers like
>>       'library()' or 'require()'.
>>
>>     * ESS[R]: Fixed fontification toggling.  Especially certain syntactic
>>       elements such as '%op%' operators and backquoted function
>>       definitions.
>>
>>     * ESS[R]: 'ess-font-lock-toggle-keyword' can be called interactively.
>>       This command asks with completion for a font-lock group to toggle.
>>       This functionality is equivalent to the font-lock menu.
>>
>>     Notable bug fixes:
>>
>>     * 'prettify-symbols-mode' no longer breaks indentation.  This is
>>       accomplished by having the pretty symbols occupy the same number of
>>       characters as their non-pretty cousins.  You may customize the new
>>       variable 'ess-r-prettify-symbols' to control this behavior.
>>
>>     * ESS: Inferior process buffers are now always displayed on startup.
>>       Additionally, they don't hang Emacs on failures.
>>
>>     Obsolete libraries, functions, and variables:
>>
>>     * The 'ess-r-args.el' library has been obsoleted and will be removed
>>       in the next release.  Use 'eldoc-mode' instead, which is on by
>>       default.
>>
>>     * Functions and options dealing with the smart assign key are
>>       obsolete.  The following functions have been made obsolete and will
>>       be removed in the next release of ESS: 'ess-smart-S-assign',
>>       'ess-toggle-S-assign', 'ess-toggle-S-assign-key',
>>       'ess-disable-smart-S-assign'.
>>
>>       The variable 'ess-smart-S-assign-key' is now deprecated and will be
>>       removed in the next release.  If you would like to continue using
>>       '_' for insterting assign in future releases, please bind
>>       'ess-insert-assign' in 'ess-mode-map' the normal way.
>>
>>     * ESS[S]: Variable 'ess-s-versions-list' is obsolete and ignored.
>>       Use 'ess-s-versions' instead.  You may pass arguments by starting
>>       the inferior process with the universal argument.
>>
>>
>>     Changes and New Features in 17.11:
>>
>>     ..............
>>     ..............
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