[ESS] Starting R

[Brett Presnell]

Done.  And thanks.  How would we live without ESS?

Lionel Henry via ESS-help <ess-help using r-project.org> writes:

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> Hello,
>
> This was a bug briefly introduced in the development version (which
> you are using through MELPA).
> It was fixed yesterday, please update ESS.
>
> Best,
> Lionel
>
> On 8/16/20, Jeremie Juste via ESS-help <ess-help using r-project.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> It might all be stupid suggestions for many reasons. (I'm still on
>> emacs 26, and my ess-version is from January 2020). But it might be
>> useful for someone with better information than I have to help you.
>>
>>
>> - Does M-x R RET works with emacs "-Q" ?
>>
>> --- in scratch
>> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/elpa/ess-20200115.225/")
>> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/elpa/julia-mode-20180816.2117")
>> (require 'ess-site)
>>
>> then does M-x R RET works? Do you have auto-completion?
>>
>>
>> - Still on the "emacs -Q" version
>> when you load an R file, (say /tmp/test.R), does C-c C-s trigger any
>> response to start an R process?
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>> Jeremie
>>
>> Brett Presnel via ESS-help <ess-help using r-project.org> writes:
>>
>>> Today I installed a new version of ess from melpa and I find that I
>>> cannot start R with the usual "M-x R RET" (if I type "M-x R <tab> the
>>> completions R-mode, Rd-font Rd-mode, Rd-mode-insert-item,
>>> Rd-mode-insert-section, Rd-mode-insert-skeleton, and Rd-preview-help are
>>> offered, but not just plain R).
>>>
>>> I am able to start R with "M-x ess-request-a-process".  I haven't gotten
>>> much further than that, so I don't know if I will run into any other
>>> problems.
>>>
>>> This is on Ubuntu 20.04 with a snapshot of the current development
>>> version of emacs:
>>>
>>> GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.20,
>>> cairo version 1.16.0) of 2020-08-11
>>>
>>> ess-version:  [elpa: 20200815.803] (loaded from
>>> /home/presnell/.emacs.d/elpa/ess-20200815.803/)
>>>
>>> The problem persists if I start emacs with "-Q", put the ess package on
>>> the load-path, and load ess-site.el.
>>>
>>> Obviously the emacs version may have something to do with this.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
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