Re: [ESS] Issue with polymode installed from ELPA

2019-09-10 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Michael: Oh, sorry. The errors are something like "file polymode not found". So not necessarily related to the load order. The load errors come from the brute force method of manually loading the files in the wrong order (which I resolved). So, I've just tested it, but I didn't get any

[ESS] Issue with polymode installed from ELPA

2019-09-09 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Gang: I am stumped. I tried to install polymode from ELPA into Vincent Goulet's distro of Emacs and ESS (it no longer contains polymode sadly). macOS 10.14.4 Mojave, Emacs version 26.2 and ESS version 18.10.2 The ELPA install seemed to go well. My load-path starts with

Re: [ESS] Issue with polymode installed from ELPA

2019-09-26 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
And it gets weirder still. I have two Macs similarly configured. One works just fine with polymode no problems. And, the other is a nightmare. But, they are so similar, I can’t seem to find what the difference is between them ;o( From: Rodney Sparapani Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at

Re: [ESS] Issue with polymode installed from ELPA

2019-09-20 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
> Just to clarify that none of those requires is really needed unless you > install polymode and poly-xyz > from the source and want to load from special locations. If installed from > melpa, everything > (including file associations) should work out of the box. No configuration > needed

Re: [ESS] Issue with polymode installed from ELPA

2019-09-24 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Boy, this is curious. I also have stan-mode installed via ELPA and it works fine ;o( Is there something special about polymode and its interaction with 26.2? From: Rodney Sparapani Date: Friday, September 20, 2019 at 11:16 AM To: Vitalie Spinu , "Braun, Michael" Cc: ess-help Subject: Re:

[ESS] SOLVED: Issue with polymode installed from ELPA

2019-10-05 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
So, I had two NEARLY identical installations: one working and one not working. A close comparison of both .emacs files pointed out the problem. For some reason, I deleted the following lines from one of them which caused all of my self-inflicted problems. (require 'package) (add-to-list

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

2020-12-28 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Dirk: All great ideas. How about ESS and Roxygen? There's also interest in using Emacs to view R graphics for which there is currently no support; but I think it I might be trivial based on some recent messages. I'm sure that we would come up with others if we ever get this off the ground.

Re: [ESS] unexpected behavior for Emacs-27.1-1-modified-1 for two MacBooks.

2021-01-31 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Rich et al.: I just got a new MBP Intel. And I have been fighting with 27.1 too! But, I just wanted to say that you don’t need homebrew for aspell. If you have the Xcode CLT, aspell install’s quite easily from source. Grab it from directory.fsf.org and a dictionary. The easiest way to

[ESS] User-space installation of ESS 18.10.2 failing

2021-03-16 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Steve: Julia-mode has been a headache ever since we added it. Can you just comment out that line in the Makefile? In theory, ESS should work without byte compiling. -- Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics Chair ISBA Section on Biostatistics and Pharmaceutical Statistics

Re: [ESS] ESS failing to load from a directory outside the FHS

2021-03-17 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
e: No such file or directory, ess.rd.el". Yet, ess.rd.el is present. Naively, it looks to me as if (add-to-list 'load-path "/apps/x86_64/emacs/ess-18.10.2/") is not being executed. On 3/17/21 11:36 AM, Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help wrote: > Hi Steve: &

Re: [ESS] ESS M-x R failing in a Windows installation

2021-03-10 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Jeremie: As you say, Windows installs do depend on the user’s preferences. However, in ancient ESS (circa 2004), we coded around this by going to the Windows registry. However, I have rarely used Windows since so I can’t say how that approach might be used today (or if it is, how it might be

Re: [ESS] ESS M-x R failing in a Windows installation

2021-03-10 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Gang: Just to follow-up on my own post. I see that the Windows Registry was discussed here in June of 2012 and March of 2013 (not 2004 which was my initial guess). But, whether that even exists in modern Windows, IDK! Here are the most relevant snippets… On 06/15/2012 12:06 PM, Rodney

Re: [ESS] [External] Re: emacs 27.1 crashes regularly on Mac M1

2021-03-03 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Rich: Does it happen when you try to use the File, Edit, etc., items on the Apple menu at the top of the screen? I have been experiencing these crashes with 26.3 for a couple years. I got around it by using the set of binaries listed here...

Re: [ESS] [External] Re: [External] Re: emacs 27.1 crashes regularly on Mac M1

2021-03-05 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Rich: To me, it seems unlikely that this is an emacs issue. I think you should be sending your crash reports to Apple. Especially if this is a Rosetta issue as you suspect. My 2 cents ;o) -- Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics Chair ISBA Section on Biostatistics and

[ESS] What is the right way to deal with modules with emacs/ESS/R on a cluster?

2021-02-16 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Gang: I’m having some trouble between Emacs/ESS and R with modules that I don’t understand. We have two TORQUE clusters. For best results, I have to load emacs from a script like so from the command line… #!/bin/bash (module load R/4.0.1; emacs "$@") On one cluster, the following elisp

Re: [ESS] SOLVED? What is the right way to deal with modules with emacs/ESS/R on a cluster?

2021-02-16 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
And now it just works! So, I think this is the right setup. Any comments to the contrary? The window manager issue was some sort of sporadic failure that I don’t understand. But, restarting all of the X services and terminals seemed to fix it (after fighting it for about an hour). -- Rodney

Re: [ESS] Advice on setting up ESS to edit and knit Rmarkdown files

2021-09-20 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Gang: I’m not directly answering the question because I don’t use Rmd (but I do use Rnw all of the time). And, just to react to a few of Dirk’s and Tyler’s comments. Over the last few years, we have moved away from having to set up features with .emacs/etc. as much as possible. Generally,

Re: [ESS] why a release from time to time would be nice

2021-09-28 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Toby: Well that is very generous. But ESS is not written in R. So I don’t think this would work. Also getting another person to file FSF paper work can be painful. For example, the student’s employer is likely a university who would own their code. Typically you have to get them to give

Re: [ESS] why a release from time to time would be nice

2021-09-29 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Toby: Perhaps it depends on whether they are undergrad or grad students. If you are a grad student, then the university owns your copyright (and faculty/staff too for that matter ;o) But, for undergrads, I don’t know what the rules are. -- Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of

[ESS] How to stop lots of carriage returns with company-quickhelp?

2021-11-07 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Alasdair: I haven't had much luck with ESS and emacs 27 (although my issues are different). Can you try emacs 26? -- Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics Chair ISBA Section on Biostatistics and Pharmaceutical Statistics Institute for Health and Equity, Division of

Re: [ESS] why a release from time to time would be nice

2023-10-03 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Gang: Resurrecting this old thread from 09/2021� For the last few years, the lack of an ESS release has been decried. And, deservedly so. Now, I�m happy to report that we intend to create a new release roughly by XMAS. The reason that I am telling all of you this: we are very interested in

[ESS] ESS code-folding?

2023-08-16 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Gang: One of my student�s asked this question. Any resources/knowledge on code folding? in RStudio �� creates a collapsible section. Came across

Re: [ESS] ESS code-folding?

2023-08-16 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
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[ESS] flymake + lintr do not work as expected on emacs 27.2 linux Mint

2022-11-14 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Ottorino: My $0.02. I haven�t found anything in 27.2 that is worth the upgrade. I would recommend sticking with 26.3. That is what I use regularly with occasional playing around with 27.2 and 28. -- Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics Director, Wisconsin Chapter of the

[ESS] A debate on progress: WAS build problem

2023-02-05 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Dirk and ESS-help: It is a slow nice day on ESS-help so I will entertain a debate. Nice to see that my old friend Dirk has not frozen solid. The thermometer has recently explored some rare territory. However, I have to respectfully disagree. I didn�t feel such a commitment to progress when I

Re: [ESS] build problem

2023-02-05 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
nk you for the help. And for being kind about the help. On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 12:18 PM Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help mailto:ess-help@r-project.org>> wrote: Hi Tom: The relevant error is above that� make[1]: emacs: No such file or directory Take a look at the file Makeconf and edit it a

[ESS] poly-R, markdown and ESS+

2023-02-09 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Gang: I�m doing more testing on Emacs 28.2. With package-install I was able to grab polymode and polymode-noweb. However, poly-R gives me the following error� Contacting host: stable.melpa.org:443 package--with-response-buffer-1: https://stable.melpa.org/packages/markdown-mode-2.4.el: Not

[ESS] build problem

2023-02-04 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Tom: The relevant error is above that� make[1]: emacs: No such file or directory Take a look at the file Makeconf and edit it appropriately for your file locations. -- Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics Director, Wisconsin Chapter of the American Statistical Association

[ESS] FW: [GNU ELPA] ESS version 24.1.0

2024-01-22 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Dear ESS users, I�m happy to report that we now have a new release. The first since 2018. It is available on github at https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS and ELPA (see below). Although an official release, in many ways this is/was an experiment. I had never done a release before and I really

[ESS] FW: [GNU ELPA] ESS version 24.1.1

2024-02-15 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Gang: We just tidied up a recent insidious bug. No other changes. Version 24.1.1 of package ESS has just been released in GNU ELPA. You can now find it in M-x list-packages RET. === Emacs Speaks Statistics === More at

Re: [ESS] FW: [GNU ELPA] ESS version 24.1.1

2024-02-19 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Dirk: Glad you resolved it with the help of others here at ESS-help. FWIW, both of these should be exactly the same version. Martin committed the fix on 01/31 and triggered the ELPA version 24.01.1. Theoretically, we could move to a MMDD.micro naming convention for ESS. However, we have

Re: [ESS] Following up, success! [was RE: [R-win] Difficulty installing R packages under Windows 11 / Cygwin]

2024-01-03 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Robert: Looking this over. The issue appears to be that you need a prefix. It has been a long time since I used Cygwin. But I assume the prefix is something like �c:� or �/cygwin/c�. In other words, the root is NOT �/�; rather something like $PREFIX/ Is that the issue? I�m trying to think

Re: [ESS] [R-win] Difficulty installing R packages under Windows 11 / Cygwin

2023-12-02 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Robert: There was a time when we supported ESS under Cygwin. In other words, run elisp code assuming UNIX/Linux rather than Windows even though Windows is the OS. However, that was a long time ago: at least 10 years since I last tried it. Cygwin has largely fallen out of fashion since you can

Re: [ESS] [R-win] Difficulty installing R packages under Windows 11 / Cygwin

2023-12-02 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Robert: Would they allow dual-booting? I’m not saying that you can’t get ESS to work under Cygwin. On the contrary, it did work at one time so it certainly can be done. However, that is not currently supported so you are on your own. But, perhaps there are others in the same

[ESS] ESS[SAS]: experience, fixes, and starting questions

2024-01-29 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Federico: iESS[SAS] goes way back to the beginning of ESS. At that time, interactive SAS was thought to be a good idea. However, batch SAS was quickly adopted as a more prudent approach given that there was comparatively little interactive support relative to R. And the reason the F-keys

Re: [ESS] ESS[SAS]: experience, fixes, and starting questions

2024-02-01 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
t 12:54 PM To: Sparapani, Rodney Subject: Re: [ESS] ESS[SAS]: experience, fixes, and starting questions Hello, Thank you for your answer. "Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help" writes: > iESS[SAS] goes way back to the beginning of ESS. At that time, interactive > SAS > was thought to be a

Re: [ESS] FW: [GNU ELPA] ESS version 24.1.1

2024-02-23 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Michael: Yes, a manual intervention appears to be necessary. So copy that file over and hopefully then it will work. FWIW. I installed ESS with �make� and then �make install� for emacs 29.1. -- Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, He/Him/His Vice President, Wisconsin

[ESS] Error installing on Mac

2024-03-09 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Liz: I would just echo Martin�s remarks. Start with Vincent�s great resource at https://emacs-modified.gitlab.io And then install ESS 24.01.1 over it with make. That�s what I do. Thanks -- Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, He/Him/His Vice President, Wisconsin Chapter

Re: [ESS] Displaying R plots within an Emacs buffer

2024-03-22 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
for Health and Equity, Division of Biostatistics Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus If this is outside of working hours, then please respond when convenient. From: Stephen J. Eglen Date: Friday, March 22, 2024 at 10:32 AM To: Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help Cc: Sparapani, Rodney Subject

[ESS] Displaying R plots within an Emacs buffer

2024-03-22 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Stephen: With emacs v29.2, I keep getting this error and I can�t figure out why� apply: Searching for program: Permission denied, ./check_outputs.pl I have perl and curl installed. So this what I see� > options(width=80, length=9) > setwd('/home/rsparapa') > require(httpgd) Loading

[ESS] ess-set-working-directory

2024-03-30 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi ESS-help: When I am working on an R script that is not part of an R package, then ess-set-working-directory does what would be expected, i.e., on a launch of R it does setwd() to the buffer�s default-directory. However, when I am in, say, the demo directory of an R package, then it doesn�t.

Re: [ESS] ess-set-working-directory

2024-03-30 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Oops… More details… (ess-version) "ess-version: 24.01.1 [] (loaded from /usr/local/emacs/29.2/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess/lisp/)" emacs-version "29.2" When I have (setq ess-ask-for-ess-directory t) then it prompts me: but the prompted default is for the root of the R package rather than

Re: [ESS] FW: [GNU ELPA] ESS version 24.1.1

2024-02-22 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Michael: I see this function in etc/ESSR/R/.load.R on line 12. So could you please double-check? Thanks -- Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, He/Him/His Vice President, Wisconsin Chapter of the American Statistical Association Institute for Health and Equity, Division of