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Changes/New Features in 5.2.12:
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@item @ESS{[SAS]}: @kbd{M-;} fixed, but the XEmacs function @code{comment-dwim}
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may be broken, if so, use @kbd{M-x comment-region} and @kbd{M-x
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uncomment-region} instead; only valid PROCs are fontified which is very
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helpful finding syntax errors (currently supported: BASE, ETS, FSP, GRAPH,
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IML, INSIGHT and STAT); the ``feature'' where @kbd{F}-keys take you to an
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empty buffer when the requested destination is a file that does not exist
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has been fixed, now the request results in a no-op.
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Further, sas-mode now also works in simple terminals.
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@item Rterm/Cygwin combination works under Microsoft Windows.
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@item @ESS{[R]}: internal calls use baseenv() instead of NULL and
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define 'baseenv' where needed.
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@item New experimental support for installing ESS. See the file
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@file{lisp/ess-install.el}.
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Changes/New Features in 5.2.11:
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@item ESS Info entry and @file{dir} handled more effectively for GNU Emacs users
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@item @ESS{[SAS]}: temporary files created for batch submission of a
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region are now named based on the current file; see @code{ess-sas-file-root}
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for details; all @code{lag} and @code{dif} functions now fontified correctly
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@item iESS[SAS]: fixed a few nagging bugs, however, still does not appear to
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work at this time; please let us know if you have any ideas.
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@item @ESS{[S]}: Support for running other versions of Splus has been
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added for unix. Two new variables, @code{ess-s-versions} and
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@code{ess-s-versions-list}, are used to tell ESS what other versions of
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Splus you would like to run.
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Changes/New Features in 5.2.10:
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@item @ESS{[R]}: ess-r-versions can no longer be customized (since the
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customization was not taking effect unless customizations were loaded
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before ESS). Its value has been changed so that it will also find R
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executables beginning ``R-devel'' and ``R-patched''. If you wish to
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change this variable, it must be set in your @file{.emacs} before ESS is
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@item Installation with GNU Make enhanced: unix and unix-like
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operating systems will now be able to install @ESS{} for all
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users in either a GNU Emacs site-lisp or an XEmacs package
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configuration by editing @file{lisp/ess-site.el} and @file{Makeconf}
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accordingly, then issuing @code{make install}
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@item @ESS{[S]}: Filename completion (inside strings) now also works in
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XEmacs for R and S-plus.
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@c working around a bug in XEmacs
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Changes/New Features in 5.2.9:
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@item @ESS{[R]} for Windows: the \ directory character bug
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with respect to ess-load-file has been eradicated.
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@item @iESS{[SAS]}: @kbd{C-c C-r} and @kbd{C-c C-b} once again
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work as intended and documented.
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@item @ESS{[S]}: M-x ess-fix-EQ-assign is a bit more agressive.
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@item @ESS{[S]}: Imenu now also shows setAs(), etc.
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@item @ESS{[R]}: R function pattern enhanced with underlying code such that
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@kbd{M-C-a} (@code{ess-beginning-of-function}) etc now work for many more
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cases, including S4 method definitions.
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@item @iESS{[R]}: myOwnhelp(1) no longer wrongly triggers help(1).
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@item @ESS{[R]}: Improved detection of bogus help buffers: valid help
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buffers containing with the string ``no documentation''(e.g. contour)
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were being treated as bogus.
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@item @ESS{[R]}: In R help buffers, if @code{options("help.try.all.packages" =
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TRUE)} then @code{?rlm} will list which packages rlm is defined in. This help
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buffer is not bogus, but instead is now relabelled ``*help[R](rlm in
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@item @ESS{[STA]}: add ``//'' as comment starting character to syntax-table.
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Changes/New Features in 5.2.8:
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@item iESS: [Tab] completes @strong{file} names ``inside string'' as in
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earlier (<= 5.2.3) ESS versions.
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Changes/New Features in 5.2.7:
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@item If you use Custom to change the variable ess-toolbar-items,
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the new toolbar is used in all subsequent ESS buffers.
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@item @ESS{[SAS]}: new feature: if ess-sas-log-max >0 and
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your .log grows to more than ess-sas-log-max bytes, just
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the first ess-sas-log-max bytes are refreshed; this is helpful when your .sas program
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generates lots of error messages and gets too big for emacs to display
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@item @ESS{[R/S]}: @kbd{M-;} in R/S editing modes will now indent with
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either one or two hashes depending on context.
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@item @ESS{[R]}: David Whiting's Sweave extensions (to 'noweb')
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are now available (from ess-swv.el loaded by default).
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Changes/New Features in 5.2.6:
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@item Removed non-ASCII characters in a few files.
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@item @ESS{[R]}: now works better when UTF-8 locale is active; in
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particular, you get correct directional quotes in R's startup message
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for R-devel (unstable development version of R 2.1.0) when using
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environment variables LANGUAGE=en@@quot LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
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@item @ESS{[SAS]}: toggling of .log mode improved (@kbd{F10}); toggling of
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.lst mode now also available (@kbd{C-F10}); killing all buffers associated
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with .sas program no longer bound to @kbd{C-F10} since its a bit overzealous.
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@item S-Plus 7 for Windows is now recognized.
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@item @ESS{[S]} (incl.@: R): in auto-fill mode, strings are not wrapped anymore.
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@item @ESS{[S]} (incl.@: R): font-lock now correctly differs between R and S,
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e.g., for "_"; both now fontify warning(.) and S does terminate() additionally.
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@item Support for `bell' aka `beep' aka `ding' aka `alarm' in all inferior
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modes: When \a is output ``to the the console'' at the beginning of a line,
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Changes/New Features in 5.2.5:
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@item @ESS{[R]}: @kbd{C-c C-q} or @samp{Quit S} from the menu now should work
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(again and less klunkily) and do not append @samp{-exited} to the
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buffer name. Further, the behavior of @code{(ess-cleanup)}, called from
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ess-quit, now depends on the new customizable variable
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@code{ess-S-quit-kill-buffers-p} which defaults to @code{nil}.
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Consequently, the question @emph{``Delete all buffers associated
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with ..?''} will not be asked anymore by default.
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@item @ESS{[SAS]} -- ess-ebcdic-to-ascii-search-and-replace will now work
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with the @code{recode} application as well which is available on many platforms
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@item @ESS{[S]} (incl.@: R): Name completion for slots of S4 objects now works!
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Changes/New Features in 5.2.4:
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@item The documentation now includes an overview of how to use the emacs
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TAGS facility for S functions. (The distribution also used to contain a
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directory @file{etc/other/Tags} where a ~1990 version of @file{etags.c} was
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distributed; this is no longer relevant and so has been deleted.)
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@item @ESS{[SAS]} -- When you are working with EBCDIC files on an ASCII
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platform, .log NOTEs may display as gibberish since the EBCDIC
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characters are not converted to ASCII prior to their display. So,
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the function ess-ebcdic-to-ascii-search-and-replace is provided for
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convenience and is bound to @kbd{C-F11}. This function requires the
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@code{dd} command (only available on unix or unix-like platforms).
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@item ESS: Completion of object names is now always done dynamically rather
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than allowing the option of using a pre-computed database (by
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@code{ess-create-object-name-db}) since modern computers seem fast
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enough for dynamic completion. (We expect few users, if any, have
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been using the pre-computed database method.)
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@item ESS: object completion in iESS buffers running on Windows was
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very slow (for GNU Emacs, but not XEmacs) and has now been fixed.
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Further, it was more or less broken for all versions of S-plus 6.x,
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and has been fixed to work everywhere but with the Windows' GUI of
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S-plus. The list of objects now shows unique names also when an
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object appears more than once in the search path.
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@item @ESS{[R]}: Completion of object names now also includes those
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Changes/New Features in 5.2.3:
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@item ESS: When new inferior ESS processes are created, by default they
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will replace the current buffer (this restores behavior from pre
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5.2.0). If you wish new ESS processes to start in another window of the
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current frame, set inferior-ess-same-window to nil.
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@item New variables inferior-Splus-args and inferior-R-args provide a
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way to pass command line arguments to starting S and R processes.
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Changes/New Features in 5.2.2:
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@item bug-fixes for 5.2.1 (require 'executable), html docs, etc.
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@item ess-lisp-directory/../doc/info added to Info-directory-list
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if ess-info not found by info
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@item @ESS{[R]}: If you have other versions of R on your
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exec-path, such as "R-1.8.1" with Unix or "rw1081" with Windows,
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ESS will find them and create appropriate functions, such as
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@kbd{M-x R-1.8.1} or @kbd{M-x rw1081}, for calling them.
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By default only Unix programs beginning "R-1" and
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"R-2" and Windows programs parallel to the
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version of R in your exec-path will be found,
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but see ess-r-versions and ess-rterm-versions for ways to find other
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@item @ESS{[R]}: Other versions of R, such as "R-1.8.1" on Unix and "rw1081" on
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Windows, are added to the
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"ESS / Start Process / Other" menu.
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@item @ESS{[S]}: If you have other versions of S-Plus on your Windows computer,
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such as S-Plus 6.1 or S-Plus 4.5, ESS will find them and create appropriate
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functions, such as @kbd{M-x splus61}, for calling the console version (Sqpe)
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inside an emacs buffer. By default only
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programs installed in the default location will be found, but see
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ess-SHOME-versions for ways to find other versions of S-Plus.
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@item @ESS{[S]}: Other versions of Sqpe on Windows, such as "splus61",
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"ESS / Start Process / Other" menu.
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@item @ESS{[R]}: (bug fix) ess-quit (bound to @kbd{C-c C-q}) should now quit the
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inferior R process, when issued from either the inferior buffer, or from
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Changes/New Features in 5.2.1:
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@item @ESS{[S]} (R and S-plus): now have toolbar support
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with icons to evaluate code in the inferior process or to switch
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there. This code is experimental and likely to change as XEmacs/Emacs
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issues get resolved. The toolbar should be enabled if your Emacs
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displays images, but can be disabled with the variable ess-use-toolbar.
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Thanks to David Smith from Insightful for the S-plus logo.
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@item @ESS{[SAS]}: ess-sas-graph-view (@kbd{F12}) enhanced; you can specify
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external file viewers for each graphics file type via the alist
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ess-sas-graph-view-viewer-alist; also .jpg/.gif are now handled
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by image-mode on XEmacs, if available, otherwise by graphics
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Changes/New Features in 5.2.0:
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@item @ESS{[BUGS]}: new info documentation! now supports interactive
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processing thanks to @uref{mailto:Aki.Vehtari@@hut.fi, Aki Vehtari};
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new architecture-independent unix support as well as support for BUGS v. 0.5
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@item @ESS{[SAS]}: convert .log to .sas with ess-sas-transcript;
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info documentation improved; Local Variable bug fixes;
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SAS/IML statements/functions now highlighted; files edited
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remotely by ange-ftp/EFS/tramp are recognized and pressing
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SUBMIT opens a buffer on the remote host via the local variable
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ess-sas-shell-buffer-remote-init which defaults to "ssh";
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changed the definition of the variable ess-sas-edit-keys-toggle
222
to boolean rather than 0/1; added the function ess-electric-run-semicolon
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which automatically reverse indents lines containing only "run;";
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@kbd{C-F1} creates MS RTF portrait from the current buffer;
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@kbd{C-F2} creates MS RTF landscape from the current buffer;
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@kbd{C-F9} opens a SAS DATASET with PROC INSIGHT rather than PROC FSVIEW;
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"inferior" aliases for SAS batch: @kbd{C-c C-r} for submit region,
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@kbd{C-c C-b} for submit buffer, @kbd{C-c C-x} for goto .log; @kbd{C-c C-y} for goto .lst
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@item @ESS{[S]}: Pressing underscore ("_") once inserts " <- " (as before);
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pressing underscore twice inserts a literal underscore. To stop this
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smart behaviour, add "(ess-toggle-underscore nil)" to your .emacs after
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ess-site has been loaded;
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ess-dump-filename-template-proto (new name!) now can be
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customized successfully (for S language dialects);
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Support for Imenu has been improved; set ess-imenu-use-S to non-nil to
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get an "Imenu-S" item on your menubar;
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ess-help: Now using nice underlines (instead of `nuke-* ^H_')
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@item @ESS{[R]}: After (require 'essa-r), @kbd{M-x ess-r-var} allows to load
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numbers from any Emacs buffer into an existing *R* process;
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@kbd{M-x ess-rdired} gives a ``directory editor'' of R objects;
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fixed ess-retr-lastvalue-command, i.e. .Last.value bug
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(thanks to David Brahm)
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@item ESS: Support for creating new window frames has been added to
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ESS. Inferior ESS processes can be created in dedicated frames by
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setting inferior-ess-own-frame to t. ESS help buffers can also open in
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new frames; see the documentation for ess-help-own-frame for details.
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(Thanks to Kevin Rodgers for contributing code.)
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.24:
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@item The version number is now correct even inside ESS/Emacs
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.23:
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@item Minor more Makefile clean up.
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.22:
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@item Besides info documentation, PDF and HTML
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documentation are also provided (instead of built using "make") and available
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on the web as well; see @uref{http://ess.r-project.org/,
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ESS web page} and @uref{http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/ESS/doc, StatLib}
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@item Now that info documentation is available, the
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README.* files are no longer supported. However, they
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are still distributed for what it's worth.
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@item ESS is now an XEmacs package! See
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@uref{http://www.xemacs.org/Install/index.html, XEmacs Installation HOWTO}
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for details (specifically, items 10-15).
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@item @ESS{[SAS]}: more user-friendly enhancements for remote
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SAS batch jobs with Kermit file transfers (LOG and OUTPUT
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function key features now supported). Multiple shells
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now supported so you can run SAS on different computers
276
from different buffers by setting the buffer-local variable
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ess-sas-shell-buffer to unique buffer names.
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@item Major re-vamping of Makefile/Makeconf.
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.21:
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@item @ESS{[SAS]}: info documentation now available!, see
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ESS->Help for SAS; @kbd{F12} opens GSASFILE nearest point for viewing
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either within emacs, when available, or via an external viewer;
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more syntax highlighting keywords; more enhancements for remote
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SAS batch jobs with Kermit; new framework for remote SAS interactive
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@item @ESS{[S]}: info documentation now available!, see
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ESS->Help for the S family
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@item Makefile: tag now independent of rel; info files
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made by doc/Makefile and installed in new info sub-directory
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.20:
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@item New `options()$STERM' in the S dialects (S, S-Plus, R).
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The S program can determine the environment in which it is
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currently running. ESS sets the option to `iESS' or `ddeESS'
300
when it starts an S language process. We recommend other specific
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values for S language processes that ESS does not start.
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@item New `ess-mouse-me' function, assigned to S-mouse-3 by default.
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User may click on a word or region and then choose from the
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menu to display the item, or a summary, or a plot, etc.
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This feature is still under development.
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@item GNU Emacs 21.1 is now supported (fixed for S dialects, SAS & BUGS),
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(some from Stephen Eglen).
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@item XEmacs 21.x is now supported (fixed w32-using-nt bug)
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@item XEmacs on Win (NT) is better supported.
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@item Workaround for bug in Sqpe+6 (S-PLUS 6 for Win).
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@item should now work even when imenu is not available (for old XEmacsen).
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@item @ESS{[SAS]}: XEmacs-Imenu fix; @kbd{C-TAB} is globalized along with your
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function-key definitions, if specified; you can specify your SAS
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library definitions outside of autoexec.sas for ess-sas-data-view
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with SAS code placed in the variable ess-sas-data-view-libname,
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also the dataset name is defaulted to the nearest permanent dataset
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to point; Speedbar support now works for permanent datasets, please
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ignore first./last.; new font-locking is now the default with more
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improvements for font-locking PROCs, macro statements, * ; and %* ;
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comments; you can toggle sas-log-mode with @kbd{F10} which will font-lock
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your .log (if it isn't too big); submit remote .sas files accessed
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with ange-ftp, EFS or Tramp (Kermit is experimental) by setting
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ess-sas-submit-method to 'sh; ess-sas-submit-command and
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ess-sas-submit-command-options are buffer-local so you can have
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local file variable sections at the end of your .sas files to
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request different executables or specify special options and the
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local file variables are re-read at submit instead of only at file
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open so that if you make a change it is picked up immediately;
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@item @ESS{[BUGS]}: font-lock with `in' fixed.
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@item for STATA: font-lock bug fixed.
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@item for Rd mode: @kbd{C-c C-v} and `switch-process' in menu.
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further, @kbd{C-c C-f} prefix (Rd-font) for inserting or surrounding a word
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by things such as \code@{.@}, \code@{\link@{.@}@}, \emph@{.@} etc.
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@item new functions (ess-directory-function) and (ess-narrow-to-defun)
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ess-directory <-> default-directory logic (Jeff Mincy).
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@item Re-organized Makefile and fixed a few bugs.
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.19:
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@item S+6 now supported (Tony Rossini (Unix) and Rich Heiberger (Windows))
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@item New BUGS support through @ESS{[BUGS]} mode (Rodney Sparapani)
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Templates assist you in writing .bug and .cmd code (.cmd and .log
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are replaced by .bmd and .bog to avoid emacs extension collisions).
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Substitution" parameters facilitate "automagic" generation of
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data...in" and "init...in" filenames, "const N=" from your data
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file and "monitor()/stats()" commands. Activated by pressing @kbd{F12}.
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@item Fixes for `ess-smart-underscore' SAS breakage (Rich Heiberger)
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@item You can change between PC and Unix, local and global SAS function-key
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definitions interactively (Rich Heiberger)
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@item @kbd{C-Submit} a highlighted region to SAS batch (Rodney Sparapani)
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@item New and improved SAS syntax highlighting (Rodney Sparapani)
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To get the new functionality, set ess-sas-run-make-regexp to nil.
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Also available in .log files via @kbd{F10}.
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@item Open a permanent SAS dataset for viewing via @kbd{F9} (Rodney Sparapani)
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You must have the library defined in autoexec.sas for it to work.
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@item User-friendly defaults for `sas-program', `ess-sas-batch-pre-command'
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and `ess-sas-batch-post-command' as well Customize support for these
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and other @ESS{[SAS]} variables (Rodney Sparapani)
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@item `ess-sas-suffix-2' now defaults to .dat via @kbd{F11} (Rodney Sparapani)
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@item Emacs/XEmacs, Unix/Windows issues collectively handled in ess-emcs.el
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@item defadvice solves problem of missing *ESS* (thanks to Jeff Mincy)
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@item Improved manual a bit by including things that were only in `README'.
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.18:
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@item New `ess-smart-underscore' function, now assigned to "_" by default.
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Inserts `ess-S-assign' (customizable " <- "), unless inside string
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and comments where plain "_" is used instead. (MM)
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@item Fixes for longstanding interactive SAS breakage (RMH)
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.17:
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@item Documentation for Windows Installation (Rich Heiberger)
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@item removal of ess-vars, finalization of customize support (in the
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sense that there is no more use of ess-vars, but that we need to
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fix ess-cust) (AJ Rossini)
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@item Many small (and large) fixes/contributions (MMaechler)
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@item addition of the "S-equal" variable and provide @kbd{M-x ess-add-MM-keys}
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a way to remap "_" to `ess-S-assign', typically " <- ", but
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customizable. (MMaechler)
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.16:
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@item Better SAS support
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.15:
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.14:
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@item Yet more fixes to SAS mode, (Rich Heiberger and Rodney Sparapani)
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@item Customize support (for most Emacsen which support it) (AJRossini)
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@item ARC and ViSta support out of the box, and fixes for XLispStat (AJRossini)
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.13:
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@item Version numbering finally all depending on the ./VERSION file,
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thanks to Martin Maechler.
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@item Yet more fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rich Heiberger.
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.12:
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@item Splus 5.1 stabilized, thanks to Martin Maechler, Bill Venables,
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Chuck Taylor, and others.
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@item More fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rodney Sparapani
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.11:
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@item More fixes to Stata mode, thanks to
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@uref{mailto:brendan@@essex.ac.uk, Brendan Halpin}.
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@item fixed bugs in ESS-elsewhere, thanks to many testers
424
@item README.SPLUS4WIN has DETAILED instructions for S-PLUS 2000, thanks
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to @uref{mailto:brahm@@alum.mit.edu, David Brahm}.
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@item Fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rodney Sparapani
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.10:
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@item More fixes to Stata mode
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@item primitive generic version of ESS-elsewhere
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@item Small fixes to SAS/Stata.
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.9:
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@item Stata mode works
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@item Literate Data Analysis using Noweb works
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.8:
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@item R documentation mode defaults changed
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Changes/New Features in 5.1.2:
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@item able to use inferior iESS mode to
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communicate directly with a running S-Plus 4.x process using the
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Microsoft DDE protocol. We use the familiar (from Unix ESS) @kbd{C-c C-n}
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and related key sequences to send lines from the S-mode file to the
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inferior S process. We continue to edit S input files in @ESS{[S]} mode
455
and transcripts of previous S sessions in ESS Transcript mode. All
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three modes know the S language, syntax, and indentation patterns and
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provide the syntactic highlighting that eases the programming tasks.