[ESS] brms / cmdstanr crashes in emacs but not terminal

[Joshua Wiley]

Hi Manuel,

Thanks, different paths is a good idea. I'll take a look at those and
experiment. Thank you!

Josh

On Fri, 26 May 2023 at 18:28, Manuel Teodoro <teoten using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Joshua,
>
> Here is an idea but I hope that somebody with more experience in Emacs can
> chip in to the discussion.
>
> In my experience I have encountered a similar situation a couple of times:
> when a process is available in the terminal but not in Emacs it is because
> the path to the scripts and terminal commands is not known by emacs. Thus,
> it can be possible that your package is trying to execute some commands
> that are known by your terminal cmd.exe and if you tell Emacs what is the
> path containing all those terminal commands, Emacs will be able to find it.
>
> Here are a couple of links that could possibly give you some ideas. As I
> said, I am not really expert in the topic, plus I use emacs in Linux so,
> I'm sorry if I can't help more. But for sure this will give you some
> starting point.
>
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ExecPath
>
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/64081/how-to-get-the-path-from-the-shell
>
> Good luck!
> Manuel T.
>
> On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 2:35 AM Joshua Wiley via ESS-help <
> ess-help using r-project.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I normally work in Emacs (28.2 build 2)) on Windows 11 pro as an admin
>> user.
>> Quite a few of my analyses these days use Stan (via cmdstanr and the brms
>> package as example).
>> I upgraded R to 4.3.0 and Stan. Now, I am quite reliably getting crashes
>> where my R process terminates when using Stan. For those not familiar,
>> Stan
>> is in C++ and generates code which is then compiled into a custom C++
>> model
>> for that Bayesian analysis. The compilation is fine, but when it starts
>> sampling, I get this when I run via Emacs:
>>
>> ## Start sampling
>> ## > >
>> ## Process R finished at Fri May 26 10:32:05 2023
>>
>> The reason I'm asking here and not just on Stan forums is that when I
>> start
>> a terminal (cmd.exe) and start R there and run the exact same code, it
>> reliably finishes and does not crash.
>>
>> I also tried M-x shell in Emacs and running R through that and also get a
>> crash.
>>
>> If anyone knows a solution that would be great but at this stage I'd love
>> to hear even just ideas on _what_ the difference is? I guess in my head R
>> through terminal and R through Emacs were the same and so I'm not sure
>> where to even begin looking for causes.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Josh
>>
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