Hi, Thank you for all your work on this! It works great for me with Rmd. I especially appreciate it because RStudio isn't a possibility for me because it isn't accessible with a screen reader.
Liz > On Sep 20, 2021, at 9:59 AM, Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help > <ess-help@r-project.org> wrote: > > 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, this stuff should just work > out-of-the-box. For example, there was a time where I was > struggling with Rnw and couldn’t figure out what was wrong by > changing settings/debugging/etc. But, after an upgrade, > everything just worked. If you think you have really identified > a bug, then please make a reproducible example and posted > on git as an issue. In my view, this last post is related to our > new release model. > > This model has not been communicated to my recollection > but is de facto. We had planned > to release 1:2 times per year. However, that largely > stopped about 2018. Now, it is pretty much just > grabbing from git where most of these issues have > been worked out, i.e., the repo is supposed to be > in a continual working state (although there may be > occasional mishaps just like anything else). Part of the > reason for moving to git (unintentionally) is that our > copyrights have mostly been attributed to the FSF. > However, there are a few pieces that are inconveniently > absent. Similarly, there are a few key pieces that oldsters > like me still want that are found in obsolete. Not directly > related, but a similar concern is that there is still the issue > of polymode being needed but not part of ESS which you > have to get from git (don’t get me stared julia-mode!). > > So, lots of excuses, pick your favorite. But the upshot > is that git is as convenient as it gets. And we are not a > company like RStudio so this FOSS setup works for > us as developers and hopefully it still serves the > users well. I hope that helps from a philosophical > point of view. My students are unconvinced > and use RStudio but I am not allowed to fail them > for their merely youthful indiscretions ;o) > > -- > Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics > Chair ISBA Section on Biostatistics and Pharmaceutical Statistics > Institute for Health and Equity, Division of Biostatistics > Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help