[ESS] [OT] Best Practices Emacs / ESS Mini-Webinars

[Stephen Bond]

Gracias Muchachos,

I updated with your suggestions. The only item I witheld is the search
with regexp, which I think belongs somewhere later. 
Do I have a nod from Dirk and the Lisp programmers to write a draft
introducing common code navigation and custom options? This will be
posted on github for further review and edits.  

Cheers
SB

On Sat, 2021-01-02 at 12:39 +0530, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 1:51 AM Stephen Bond <stephen.cbond using yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Happy New Year,
> > 
> > I wrote a short draft of installing ESS through melpa as I favor
> > Prof.
> > Sarkar's suggestion to have a readable version:
> > https://boring2004.blogspot.com/2021/01/ess.html
> > This is not editable, but we are still waiting for the final tool.
> > I hope I am saving some time for the more advanced Emacs/Lisp
> > people;
> > let me know if I should stay quiet.
> > 
> > Melpa should be the preferred option as installing by double
> > clicking
> > on an executable is the RStudio way of doing things and does not
> > lead
> > to learning Emacs.
> 
> This looks great.
> 
> A couple of suggestions along the same lines as Greg, with the view
> of
> giving alternatives to those who prefer typing:
> 
> In step 2, follow "Evaluate last S-expression from Emacs-Lisp menu"
> with "(keyboard shortcut C-x C-e, or M-x eval-last-sexp)"
> 
> For steps 3 and 4, point to https://polymode.github.io/installation/
> for other alternatives.
> 
> [Where I suppose
> 
> (unless (package-installed-p 'polymode)
>   (package-install 'poly-markdown))
> 
> is a typo and should be
> 
> (unless (package-installed-p 'poly-markdown)
>   (package-install 'poly-markdown))
> 
> instead?]
> 
> 3. You define (rmd-mode) but don't use it. I assume it is to change
> mode explicitly; is it ever useful? You should explain why it could
> be.
> 
> BTW, an explicit (require 'ess-site) does not seem to be required (at
> least for Emacs 27.1). Not sure why.
> 
> Best,
> -Deepayan
> 
> > Cheers
> > Stephen
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2020-12-29 at 19:47 +0530, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 4:07 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel via ESS-help
> > > <ess-help using r-project.org> wrote:
> > > > Hi Stephen,
> > > > 
> > > > On 28 December 2020 at 16:23, Stephen Bond wrote:
> > > > > I have been struggling with trying to follow the steps in
> > > > > https://r-pkgs.org/ and the best thing would be to have a
> > > > > similar
> > > > > online book showing the steps with ESS. the Hadley book is
> > > > > chained to
> > > > > RStudio and they assume everybody uses RStudio, so many
> > > > > examples
> > > > > do not
> > > > > work as expected when run inside ESS/emacs. there is also
> > > > > some
> > > > 
> > > > Let's step back. Some of us have been building packages for
> > > > longer
> > > > than
> > > > either the book or RStudio existed. The canonical reference is
> > > > still WRE.
> > > > 
> > > > FWIW I distilled (short) command-line wrappers off it too, so I
> > > > use
> > > >    build.r      # create a tar.gz
> > > >    rcc.r        # check the tar.gz (using rcmdcheck::rcmdcheck)
> > > >    check.r      # check the tar.gz (more like R CMD check)
> > > >    install.r    # install it
> > > > and so on _all the time_ often in a bash shell / tmux session.
> > > > The
> > > > command
> > > > are also all callable from Emacs/ESS as commands and e.g. I
> > > > always
> > > > do
> > > > compile-command (i.e. C-x C-c, then calling render.r) to
> > > > process
> > > > markdown.
> > > > For package building many other people also use devtools; I
> > > > understand that
> > > > is now integrated with ESS and would be new to me too. There
> > > > are
> > > > (as always)
> > > > many ways to go about this.
> > > > 
> > > > > completely undocumented menus like (Select package for
> > > > > evaluation) not
> > > > > mentioned on the official ESS page:
> > > > > https://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html
> > > > > I am willing to help and donate time if you can start with
> > > > > such
> > > > > an
> > > > > online book.
> > > > 
> > > > AFAIK nobody promised a book.  We suggest(ed) and still work on
> > > > a
> > > > series of
> > > > *short* and *focused* intros to topics. The current list is at
> > > > http://collabedit.com/537yq
> > > > 
> > > > Package building is but one topic, but it would be great if you
> > > > could help
> > > > with this.
> > > > 
> > > > > Cheers, really happy this may be happening.
> > > > 
> > > > Yes. Let's see if we can pull this off.
> > > 
> > > I'm hoping to learn a lot from this.
> > > 
> > > Although it's not the immediate goal, I think it would be good to
> > > eventually have a readable version of the topics covered in the
> > > webinars, sort of in-between a book and the docs. I will be happy
> > > to
> > > help with that effort.
> > > 
> > > Best,
> > > -Deepayan
> > > 
> > > > Dirk
> > > > 
> > > > --
> > > > https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd using debian.org
> > > > 
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