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- Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
- Author(s): Dirk Eddelbuettel
- Date: 2009-01-23 12:00:52 UTC
- mfrom: (1.2.9 upstream) (3.1.7 sid)
- Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20090123120052-lanxg8rk58s6a5vf
Tags: 5.3.11-1
New upstream release
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- doc/unixlike.texi
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ANNOUNCE
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The ESS Developers proudly announce the release of ESS
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Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) provides an intelligent, consistent
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interface between the user and the software. ESS interfaces with
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1.9 New Features
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Changes/New Features in 5.3.10:
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* Fixed noweb-mode bug accidentally introduced into 5.3.9
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* In noweb-mode, e.g., Rnw-mode, electric "<" also inserts closing
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"@". Further, the code chunk boundaries are better kept
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up-to-date, such that code[R] <-> text[LaTeX] minor mode
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switching should happen more reliably.
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* In noweb-mode, fix a buglet in rare [Enter] or [Tab] behavior;
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further, by default disable the former `[[' .. `]]'
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code-protection-when-filling behavior which has been found to be
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buggy.
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Changes/New Features in 5.3.9:
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* ESS[SAS]: evince PDF viewer now supported as well; search order:
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evince, Xpdf, Adobe/Acrobat Reader
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* ESS[R]: added support for Roxygen, potentially to be extended.
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* ESS[S] (and R): inferior (`*R*') and transcript modes no longer
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fontify language keywords (such as `for', `in', etc).
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* iESS[Stata]: Customize the `ess-sta-delimiter-friendly' setting to
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t to convert embedded semi-colons to newlines for Stata processing.
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* Sweave fix for embedded blanks in PDF reader and PDF files
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* Several fixes for Major Mode Convention violations in `ess-mode'
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and `noweb-mode'.
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* ESS[JAGS]: `M-x comment-region' now available!
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* ESS[S] The `ess-swv-*' commands (and keybindings) are now in a
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submenu of the "Noweb" menu, when editing Sweave files.
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* ESS[JAGS]: more separation from ESS[BUGS] (as much as is currently
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planned); now `C-c C-c' on an empty `.jmd' creates a template as
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it should; symbolic links are created for CODA output so BOA is
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happy: from `index.txt' to `.ind' and `chain#.txt' to `#.out'
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* ESS[SAS]: buffer-local `ess-sas-submit-command' and
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`ess-sas-submit-command-options' now recognized by
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`ess-sas-submit-region'
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* ESS[S]: When trying to evaluate code in an S language buffer and
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there is no associated process, now start R automatically instead
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of signalling an error. Also, restart R if there is an
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associated process which is not running. However, do not start R
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just via the "electric" `(' (`ess-r-args-auto-show').
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* ESS[S]: For (one-line) functions withOUT '{ .. }' bodys, the end
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of function is now correctly found more often. This notably
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improves `C-c C-c' (`ess-eval-function-or-paragraph-and-step').
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* ESS[JAGS]: cleanup/re-organization of elisp code; symbolic links
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for CODA output are now only created by the new JAGS `system'
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command in version 1.0.3; specify whether this command is
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available via `ess-jags-system'; if not present, then no links are
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created so that the `*shell*' buffer does not become unresponsive
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during the batch run
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Changes/New Features in 5.3.7:
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* ESS: `ess-default-style' now *is* customizable, i.e., changing
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its value in `~/.emacs' now does have the desired effect.
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* ESS: `ess-font-lock-mode' is a new variable (default: t) which
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controls whether font-locking is enabled in ESS buffers.
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* ESS[R]: for XEmacs on Windows; another tweak to find R versions
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* ESS[SAS]: font-locking updated for ODS and SAS Bayesian Procedures;
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a more consistent handling of SAS options by
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`ess-sas-submit-command-options' which is buffer-local; portable
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snooze for MS Windows via customize-able `ess-sleep-for' (floats
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welcome); Xpdf now supported as a PDF viewer
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* ESS[Rnw]: now also works with "emacs -nw" and Emacs 22.
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* ESS[JAGS]: now requires JAGS 1.0 (see the new ESS for JAGS help
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section for more information): both need work; suggestions welcome
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* ESS[R]: [TAB] completion now uses the R-internal completion
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mechanism (for R >= 2.5.0).
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* ESS[R] ([S]): interpretation of "_" as assignment has been removed
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in `ess-continued-statement-p' for R and S.
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* several internal code cleanups.
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* ESS[R]: An experimental version of a new command `Rgui' on MS
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Windows to send lines directly from emacs to `Rgui' is available
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in file `lisp/essd-rgui.el'. Preliminary documentation is in file
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`doc/rgui-doc.txt'.
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Changes/New Features in 5.3.6:
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* ESS: for XEmacs, using "gnuclient" (without a "-q") works for
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things like fix() after M-x gnuserv-start has been done.
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* ESS[R]: M-x R-newest should now work in more situations on MS
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Windows, e.g., when R has been installed in a non-default
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"ProgramFiles" directory tree. In these cases, there's no need
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to specify the name (and full path) of the R program anymore.
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* ESS[R]: For XEmacs, startup (with new tooltip code) works again.
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* ESS[R] a new defun is available, `M-x R-newest', which will start
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the newest version of R that it can find on your system.
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* ESS[R] add Sven Hartenstein's "R function arguments tips"
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functionality, via new file `../lisp/essd-r-args.el'. Note that
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this includes an "electric "("" behavior inside `R-mode' which is
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_active by default_ and can be customized via
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`ess-r-args-electric-paren'; i.e., use `(setq
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ess-r-args-electric-paren nil)' to turn it off. Further,
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`ess-r-args-show-as' allows to switch to the "tooltip" mode.
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* ESS: functions `ess-get-pdf-viewer' and *-ps-viewer; built on new
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customizable variables `ess-pdf-viewer-pref' and
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`ess-ps-viewer-pref'; currently used in `ess-swv-PDF' and `*-PS'.
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* ESS[R] Improved `ess-swv-PDF' to run pdf viewer only if pdflatex
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was ok
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* ESS[R] Improved `ess-swv-weave' to start R automatically if none
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is running.
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* ESS: Do no longer ask _which_ ESS process to use if there is only
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one.
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Changes/New Features in 5.3.4:
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* ESS[R] now better work with options(error=recover); and the new
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default of CHM help files on windows.
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* ESS[R] some more cleanup in the "sweave" functions
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* miscellaneous fixes
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* ESS[S] fix buglet (5.3.2 only) which left command prompt in
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"execute buffer" and hence help files.
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* new customizable variable `ess-display-buffer-reuse-frames' set to
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true (which changes default behavior) such that execution or help
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*frames* are reused.
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* Classic BUGS now supported by `(require 'essd-bugs)' with ESS[BUGS]
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and JAGS by `(require 'essd-jags)' with ESS[JAGS]. But,
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only one of them can be used at a time since they don't play
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nice together. Also, `C-c C-c' is now bound to the function
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`ess-bugs-next-action' (`F12' has been retired). And
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finally, note that `essl-bug.el' is deprecated and the
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replacement is `essl-bugs.el'.
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* ESS[R] Improved some of the "Sweave-make" functions (yet scarcely
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documented) in `ess-swv.el'.
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* ESS[S] No longer mess with .Last.value (nor in other "languages").
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* See the docs for 2 ways to install ESS for XEmacs
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1. by uncommenting the XEmacs part of Section 1 of
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`Makeconf' and performing `make install'
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2. by unpacking either `ess-5.3.1.tgz' or
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`ess-5.3.1.zip' into
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`PREFIX/lib/xemacs/site-packages' on unix or
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`PREFIX\XEmacs\site-packages' on windows
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* ESS[R]: fixed bugs so that Rterm.exe can be found by XEmacs
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* ESS[S]: `ess-toggle-S-assign-key' is slightly changed; in
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particular, the default `ess-assign-key' is now `C-x ='.
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* ESS[R]: `M-x R-site-search' is a new (slightly experimental)
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utility similar to R's `RSiteSearch(..)' but with the advantage of
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using Emacs' preferred browser, see `browse-url-browser-function'
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* ESS[BUGS]: sanely re-format statistical output, `.bog', from
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scientific notation to numbers rounded with 4 decimal places with
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`M-x ess-bugs-sci-round-to-4-dp'.
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* The keys for navigating among section headings in help buffers
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worked, but only for one language per session; they should now
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work for multiple languages. (They were also broken on Windows
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machines.)
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* ESS[S] long standing buglets in the internal logic for loading
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lisp code on Windows. Particularly fixed behavior in help mode
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with S-plus GUI.
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* New variable, `ess-use-inferior-program-name-in-buffer-name',
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which enables using the executable name instead of the dialect
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name for R. Feature request.
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* ESS[S] `ess-execute-screen-options' now also works correctly when
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there is more than one window *side-by-side* in the same frame and
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runs in the correct buffer also when there is more than one S
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buffer.
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* iESS[S] new functions `ess-eval-paragraph-and-step' and
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`ess-eval-function-or-paragraph-and-step' are bound to keys `C-c
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C-p' and `C-c C-c' respectively and to the menu in ESS-mode; also
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bound in the help mode (for evaluating examples).
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* ESS[S] new function `ess-toggle-S-assign-key' allows to assign the
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" <- " insertion to an arbitrary key.
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* ESS[SAS]: `M-;' fixed, but the XEmacs function `comment-dwim' may
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be broken, if so, use `M-x comment-region' and `M-x
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uncomment-region' instead; only valid PROCs are fontified which is
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very helpful finding syntax errors (currently supported: BASE,
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ETS, FSP, GRAPH, IML, INSIGHT and STAT); the "feature" where
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`F'-keys take you to an empty buffer when the requested
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destination is a file that does not exist has been fixed, now the
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request results in a no-op. Further, sas-mode now also works in
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simple terminals.
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* Rterm/Cygwin combination works under Microsoft Windows.
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* ESS[R]: internal calls use baseenv() instead of NULL and define
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'baseenv' where needed.
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* New experimental support for installing ESS. See the file
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`lisp/ess-install.el'.
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Changes/New Features in 5.2.11:
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* ESS Info entry and `dir' handled more effectively for GNU Emacs
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users
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* ESS[SAS]: temporary files created for batch submission of a region
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are now named based on the current file; see `ess-sas-file-root'
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for details; all `lag' and `dif' functions now fontified correctly
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* iESS[SAS]: fixed a few nagging bugs, however, still does not
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appear to work at this time; please let us know if you have any
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ideas.
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* ESS[S]: Support for running other versions of Splus has been added
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for unix. Two new variables, `ess-s-versions' and
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`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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* ESS[R]: ess-r-versions can no longer be customized (since the
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customization was not taking effect unless customizations were
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loaded before ESS). Its value has been changed so that it will
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also find R executables beginning "R-devel" and "R-patched". If
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you wish to change this variable, it must be set in your `.emacs'
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before ESS is loaded.
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* Installation with GNU Make enhanced: unix and unix-like operating
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systems will now be able to install ESS for all users in either a
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GNU Emacs site-lisp or an XEmacs package configuration by editing
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`lisp/ess-site.el' and `Makeconf' accordingly, then issuing `make
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install'
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* ESS[S]: Filename completion (inside strings) now also works in
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XEmacs for R and S-plus.
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* ESS[R] for Windows: the \ directory character bug with respect to
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ess-load-file has been eradicated.
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* iESS[SAS]: `C-c C-r' and `C-c C-b' once again work as intended and
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documented.
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* ESS[S]: M-x ess-fix-EQ-assign is a bit more agressive.
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* ESS[S]: Imenu now also shows setAs(), etc.
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* ESS[R]: R function pattern enhanced with underlying code such that
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`M-C-a' (`ess-beginning-of-function') etc now work for many more
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cases, including S4 method definitions.
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* iESS[R]: myOwnhelp(1) no longer wrongly triggers help(1).
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* 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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"*help[R](rlm in packages)*".
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* ESS[STA]: add "//" as comment starting character to syntax-table.
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* iESS: [Tab] completes *file* names "inside string" as in earlier
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(<= 5.2.3) ESS versions.
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* If you use Custom to change the variable ess-toolbar-items, the
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new toolbar is used in all subsequent ESS buffers.
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* ESS[SAS]: new feature: if ess-sas-log-max >0 and your .log grows
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to more than ess-sas-log-max bytes, just the first ess-sas-log-max
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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
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display
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* ESS[R/S]: `M-;' in R/S editing modes will now indent with either
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one or two hashes depending on context.
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* ESS[R]: David Whiting's Sweave extensions (to 'noweb') are now
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available (from ess-swv.el loaded by default).
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* Removed non-ASCII characters in a few files.
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* 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
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message for R-devel (unstable development version of R 2.1.0)
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when using environment variables LANGUAGE=en@quot
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* ESS[SAS]: toggling of .log mode improved (`F10'); toggling of .lst
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mode now also available (`C-F10'); killing all buffers associated
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with .sas program no longer bound to `C-F10' since its a bit
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overzealous.
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* ESS[S] (incl. R): in auto-fill mode, strings are not wrapped
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anymore.
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* 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()
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additionally.
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* Support for `bell' aka `beep' aka `ding' aka `alarm' in all
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inferior modes: When \a is output "to the the console" at the
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beginning of a line, the bell is rung.
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* ESS[R]: `C-c C-q' or `Quit S' from the menu now should work (again
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and less klunkily) and do not append `-exited' to the buffer name.
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now depends on the new customizable variable
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`ess-S-quit-kill-buffers-p' which defaults to `nil'.
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Consequently, the question _"Delete all buffers associated with
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..?"_ will not be asked anymore by default.
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* ESS[SAS] - ess-ebcdic-to-ascii-search-and-replace will now work
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with the `recode' application as well which is available on many
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platforms
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* ESS[S] (incl. R): Name completion for slots of S4 objects now
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works!
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* 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
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`etags.c' was distributed; this is no longer relevant and so has
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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 `C-F11'. This function requires the
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`dd' command (only available on unix or unix-like platforms).
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rather than allowing the option of using a pre-computed database
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(by `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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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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* ESS[R]: Completion of object names now also includes those
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starting with ".".
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* 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
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of the current frame, set inferior-ess-same-window to nil.
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* 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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* bug-fixes for 5.2.1 (require 'executable), html docs, etc.
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* ess-lisp-directory/../doc/info added to Info-directory-list if
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ess-info not found by info
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* ESS[R]: If you have other versions of R on your exec-path, such as
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"R-1.8.1" with Unix or "rw1081" with Windows, ESS will find them
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and create appropriate functions, such as `M-x R-1.8.1' or `M-x
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rw1081', for calling them. By default only Unix programs
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beginning "R-1" and "R-2" and Windows programs parallel to the
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version of R in your exec-path will be found, but see
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ess-r-versions and ess-rterm-versions for ways to find other
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versions of R.
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"rw1081" on Windows, are added to the "ESS / Start Process /
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Other" menu.
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computer, such as S-Plus 6.1 or S-Plus 4.5, ESS will find them and
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create appropriate functions, such as `M-x splus61', for calling
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the console version (Sqpe) 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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* ESS[S]: Other versions of Sqpe on Windows, such as "splus61", are
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added to the "ESS / Start Process / Other" menu.
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* ESS[R]: (bug fix) ess-quit (bound to `C-c C-q') should now quit the
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inferior R process, when issued from either the inferior buffer,
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or from a .R buffer.
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* ESS[S] (R and S-plus): now have toolbar support with icons to
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evaluate code in the inferior process or to switch there. This
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code is experimental and likely to change as XEmacs/Emacs issues
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get resolved. The toolbar should be enabled if your Emacs displays
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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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* ESS[SAS]: ess-sas-graph-view (`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 by
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image-mode on XEmacs, if available, otherwise by graphics
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primitives as before
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* ESS[BUGS]: new info documentation! now supports interactive
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processing thanks to Aki Vehtari (mailto:Aki.Vehtari@hut.fi); new
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architecture-independent unix support as well as support for BUGS
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v. 0.5
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* ESS[SAS]: convert .log to .sas with ess-sas-transcript; info
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documentation improved; Local Variable bug fixes; SAS/IML
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statements/functions now highlighted; files edited remotely by
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ange-ftp/EFS/tramp are recognized and pressing SUBMIT opens a
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buffer on the remote host via the local variable
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ess-sas-shell-buffer-remote-init which defaults to "ssh"; changed
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the definition of the variable ess-sas-edit-keys-toggle to boolean
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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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`C-F1' creates MS RTF portrait from the current buffer; `C-F2'
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creates MS RTF landscape from the current buffer; `C-F9' opens a
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SAS DATASET with PROC INSIGHT rather than PROC FSVIEW; "inferior"
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aliases for SAS batch: `C-c C-r' for submit region, `C-c C-b' for
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submit buffer, `C-c C-x' for goto .log; `C-c C-y' for goto .lst
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* ESS[S]: Pressing underscore ("_") once inserts " <- " (as before);
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pressing underscore twice inserts a literal underscore. To stop
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this smart behaviour, add "(ess-toggle-underscore nil)" to your
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.emacs after ess-site has been loaded;
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ess-dump-filename-template-proto (new name!) now can be customized
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successfully (for S language dialects); Support for Imenu has been
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improved; set ess-imenu-use-S to non-nil to get an "Imenu-S" item
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on your menubar; ess-help: Now using nice underlines (instead of
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`nuke-* ^H_')
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* ESS[R]: After (require 'essa-r), `M-x ess-r-var' allows to load
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numbers from any Emacs buffer into an existing *R* process; `M-x
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ess-rdired' gives a "directory editor" of R objects; fixed
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ess-retr-lastvalue-command, i.e. .Last.value bug (thanks to David
716
Brahm)
717
718
* ESS: Support for creating new window frames has been added to ESS.
719
Inferior ESS processes can be created in dedicated frames by
720
setting inferior-ess-own-frame to t. ESS help buffers can also
721
open in new frames; see the documentation for ess-help-own-frame
722
for details. (Thanks to Kevin Rodgers for contributing code.)
723
724
Changes/New Features in 5.1.24:
725
* The version number is now correct even inside ESS/Emacs
726
727
Changes/New Features in 5.1.23:
728
* Minor more Makefile clean up.
729
730
Changes/New Features in 5.1.22:
731
* Besides info documentation, PDF and HTML documentation are also
732
provided (instead of built using "make") and available on the web
733
as well; see ESS web page (http://ess.r-project.org/) and StatLib
734
(http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/ESS/doc)
735
736
* Now that info documentation is available, the README.* files are
737
no longer supported. However, they are still distributed for what
738
it's worth.
739
740
* ESS is now an XEmacs package! See XEmacs Installation HOWTO
741
(http://www.xemacs.org/Install/index.html) for details
742
(specifically, items 10-15).
743
744
* ESS[SAS]: more user-friendly enhancements for remote SAS batch
745
jobs with Kermit file transfers (LOG and OUTPUT function key
746
features now supported). Multiple shells now supported so you can
747
run SAS on different computers from different buffers by setting
748
the buffer-local variable ess-sas-shell-buffer to unique buffer
749
names.
750
751
* Major re-vamping of Makefile/Makeconf.
752
753
Changes/New Features in 5.1.21:
754
* ESS[SAS]: info documentation now available!, see ESS->Help for
755
SAS; `F12' opens GSASFILE nearest point for viewing either within
756
emacs, when available, or via an external viewer; more syntax
757
highlighting keywords; more enhancements for remote SAS batch jobs
758
with Kermit; new framework for remote SAS interactive jobs, see
759
ess-remote
760
761
* ESS[S]: info documentation now available!, see ESS->Help for the S
762
family
763
764
* Makefile: tag now independent of rel; info files made by
765
doc/Makefile and installed in new info sub-directory
766
767
Changes/New Features in 5.1.20:
768
* New `options()$STERM' in the S dialects (S, S-Plus, R). The S
769
program can determine the environment in which it is currently
770
running. ESS sets the option to `iESS' or `ddeESS' when it starts
771
an S language process. We recommend other specific values for S
772
language processes that ESS does not start.
773
774
* New `ess-mouse-me' function, assigned to S-mouse-3 by default.
775
User may click on a word or region and then choose from the menu
776
to display the item, or a summary, or a plot, etc. This feature
777
is still under development.
778
779
* GNU Emacs 21.1 is now supported (fixed for S dialects, SAS & BUGS),
780
(some from Stephen Eglen).
781
782
* XEmacs 21.x is now supported (fixed w32-using-nt bug)
783
784
* XEmacs on Win (NT) is better supported.
785
786
* Workaround for bug in Sqpe+6 (S-PLUS 6 for Win).
787
788
* should now work even when imenu is not available (for old
789
XEmacsen).
790
791
* ESS[SAS]: XEmacs-Imenu fix; `C-TAB' is globalized along with your
792
function-key definitions, if specified; you can specify your SAS
793
library definitions outside of autoexec.sas for ess-sas-data-view
794
with SAS code placed in the variable ess-sas-data-view-libname,
795
also the dataset name is defaulted to the nearest permanent dataset
796
to point; Speedbar support now works for permanent datasets, please
797
ignore first./last.; new font-locking is now the default with more
798
improvements for font-locking PROCs, macro statements, * ; and %* ;
799
comments; you can toggle sas-log-mode with `F10' which will
800
font-lock your .log (if it isn't too big); submit remote .sas
801
files accessed with ange-ftp, EFS or Tramp (Kermit is
802
experimental) by setting ess-sas-submit-method to 'sh;
803
ess-sas-submit-command and ess-sas-submit-command-options are
804
buffer-local so you can have local file variable sections at the
805
end of your .sas files to request different executables or specify
806
special options and the local file variables are re-read at submit
807
instead of only at file open so that if you make a change it is
808
picked up immediately;
809
810
* ESS[BUGS]: font-lock with `in' fixed.
811
812
* for STATA: font-lock bug fixed.
813
814
* for Rd mode: `C-c C-v' and `switch-process' in menu. further,
815
`C-c C-f' prefix (Rd-font) for inserting or surrounding a word by
816
things such as \code{.}, \code{\link{.}}, \emph{.} etc.
817
818
* new functions (ess-directory-function) and (ess-narrow-to-defun)
819
ess-directory <-> default-directory logic (Jeff Mincy).
820
821
* Re-organized Makefile and fixed a few bugs.
822
823
Changes/New Features in 5.1.19:
824
* S+6 now supported (Tony Rossini (Unix) and Rich Heiberger
825
(Windows))
826
827
* New BUGS support through ESS[BUGS] mode (Rodney Sparapani)
828
Templates assist you in writing .bug and .cmd code (.cmd and .log
829
are replaced by .bmd and .bog to avoid emacs extension collisions).
830
Substitution" parameters facilitate "automagic" generation of
831
data...in" and "init...in" filenames, "const N=" from your data
832
file and "monitor()/stats()" commands. Activated by pressing
833
`F12'.
834
835
* Fixes for `ess-smart-underscore' SAS breakage (Rich Heiberger)
836
837
* You can change between PC and Unix, local and global SAS
838
function-key definitions interactively (Rich Heiberger)
839
840
* `C-Submit' a highlighted region to SAS batch (Rodney Sparapani)
841
842
* New and improved SAS syntax highlighting (Rodney Sparapani) To get
843
the new functionality, set ess-sas-run-make-regexp to nil. Also
844
available in .log files via `F10'.
845
846
* Open a permanent SAS dataset for viewing via `F9' (Rodney
847
Sparapani) You must have the library defined in autoexec.sas for
848
it to work.
849
850
* User-friendly defaults for `sas-program',
851
`ess-sas-batch-pre-command' and `ess-sas-batch-post-command' as
852
well Customize support for these and other ESS[SAS] variables
853
(Rodney Sparapani)
854
855
* `ess-sas-suffix-2' now defaults to .dat via `F11' (Rodney
856
Sparapani)
857
858
* Emacs/XEmacs, Unix/Windows issues collectively handled in
859
ess-emcs.el
860
861
* defadvice solves problem of missing *ESS* (thanks to Jeff Mincy)
862
863
* Improved manual a bit by including things that were only in
864
`README'.
865
866
Changes/New Features in 5.1.18:
867
* New `ess-smart-underscore' function, now assigned to "_" by
868
default. Inserts `ess-S-assign' (customizable " <- "), unless
869
inside string and comments where plain "_" is used instead. (MM)
870
871
* Fixes for longstanding interactive SAS breakage (RMH)
872
873
Changes/New Features in 5.1.17:
874
* Documentation for Windows Installation (Rich Heiberger)
875
876
* removal of ess-vars, finalization of customize support (in the
877
sense that there is no more use of ess-vars, but that we need to
878
fix ess-cust) (AJ Rossini)
879
880
* Many small (and large) fixes/contributions (MMaechler)
881
882
* addition of the "S-equal" variable and provide `M-x
883
ess-add-MM-keys' a way to remap "_" to `ess-S-assign', typically "
884
<- ", but customizable. (MMaechler)
885
886
Changes/New Features in 5.1.16:
887
* BUG FIXES
888
889
* Better SAS support
890
891
Changes/New Features in 5.1.15:
892
* BUG FIXES
893
894
Changes/New Features in 5.1.14:
895
* Yet more fixes to SAS mode, (Rich Heiberger and Rodney Sparapani)
896
897
* Customize support (for most Emacsen which support it) (AJRossini)
898
899
* ARC and ViSta support out of the box, and fixes for XLispStat
900
(AJRossini)
901
902
Changes/New Features in 5.1.13:
903
* Version numbering finally all depending on the ./VERSION file,
904
thanks to Martin Maechler.
905
906
* Yet more fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rich Heiberger.
907
908
Changes/New Features in 5.1.12:
909
* Splus 5.1 stabilized, thanks to Martin Maechler, Bill Venables,
910
Chuck Taylor, and others.
911
912
* More fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rodney Sparapani and Rich
913
Heiberger.
914
915
Changes/New Features in 5.1.11:
916
* More fixes to Stata mode, thanks to Brendan Halpin
917
(mailto:brendan@essex.ac.uk).
918
919
* fixed bugs in ESS-elsewhere, thanks to many testers
920
921
* README.SPLUS4WIN has DETAILED instructions for S-PLUS 2000, thanks
922
to David Brahm (mailto:brahm@alum.mit.edu).
923
924
* Fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rodney Sparapani
925
926
Changes/New Features in 5.1.10:
927
* More fixes to Stata mode
928
929
* primitive generic version of ESS-elsewhere
930
931
* Small fixes to SAS/Stata.
932
933
Changes/New Features in 5.1.9:
934
* Stata mode works
935
936
* Literate Data Analysis using Noweb works
937
938
Changes/New Features in 5.1.8:
939
* Bug fixes
940
941
* R documentation mode defaults changed
942
943
Changes/New Features in 5.1.2:
944
* able to use inferior iESS mode to communicate directly with a
945
running S-Plus 4.x process using the Microsoft DDE protocol. We
946
use the familiar (from Unix ESS) `C-c C-n' and related key
947
sequences to send lines from the S-mode file to the inferior S
948
process. We continue to edit S input files in ESS[S] mode and
949
transcripts of previous S sessions in ESS Transcript mode. All
950
three modes know the S language, syntax, and indentation patterns
951
and provide the syntactic highlighting that eases the programming
952
tasks.
240
Changes/New Features in 5.3.11:
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* ESS[SAS]: work around buglet in Emacs 22.2 & 22.3 which fails
242
to set case-fold fontification automatically.
243
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* Rd mode: support new keyword 'Rdversion'
245
246
* ESS[R]: now again works with Emacs 21.x
247
248
Changes/New Features in 5.3.10:
249
* Fixed noweb-mode bug accidentally introduced into 5.3.9
250
251
* In noweb-mode, e.g., Rnw-mode, electric "<" also inserts
252
closing "@". Further, the code chunk boundaries are better
253
kept up-to-date, such that code[R] <-> text[LaTeX] minor
254
mode switching should happen more reliably.
255
256
* In noweb-mode, fix a buglet in rare [Enter] or [Tab]
257
behavior; further, by default disable the former `[[' ..
258
`]]' code-protection-when-filling behavior which has been
259
found to be buggy.
260
261
Changes/New Features in 5.3.9:
262
* ESS[SAS]: evince PDF viewer now supported as well; search
263
order: evince, Xpdf, Adobe/Acrobat Reader
264
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* ESS[R]: added support for Roxygen, potentially to be extended.
266
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* ESS[S] (and R): inferior (`*R*') and transcript modes no
268
longer fontify language keywords (such as `for', `in', etc).
269
270
* iESS[Stata]: Customize the `ess-sta-delimiter-friendly'
271
setting to t to convert embedded semi-colons to newlines for
272
Stata processing.
273
274
* Sweave fix for embedded blanks in PDF reader and PDF files
275
276
* Several fixes for Major Mode Convention violations in
277
`ess-mode' and `noweb-mode'.
278
279
* ESS[JAGS]: `M-x comment-region' now available!
280
281
* ESS[S] The `ess-swv-*' commands (and keybindings) are now in
282
a submenu of the "Noweb" menu, when editing Sweave files.
283
284
Changes/New Features in 5.3.8:
285
* ESS[JAGS]: more separation from ESS[BUGS] (as much as is
286
currently planned); now `C-c C-c' on an empty `.jmd' creates
287
a template as it should; symbolic links are created for CODA
288
output so BOA is happy: from `index.txt' to `.ind' and
289
`chain#.txt' to `#.out'
290
291
* ESS[SAS]: buffer-local `ess-sas-submit-command' and
292
`ess-sas-submit-command-options' now recognized by
293
`ess-sas-submit-region'
294
295
* ESS[S]: When trying to evaluate code in an S language buffer
296
and there is no associated process, now start R
297
automatically instead of signalling an error. Also, restart
298
R if there is an associated process which is not running.
299
However, do not start R just via the "electric" `('
300
(`ess-r-args-auto-show').
301
302
* ESS[S]: For (one-line) functions withOUT '{ .. }' bodys, the
303
end of function is now correctly found more often. This
304
notably improves `C-c C-c'
305
(`ess-eval-function-or-paragraph-and-step').
306
307
* ESS[JAGS]: cleanup/re-organization of elisp code; symbolic
308
links for CODA output are now only created by the new JAGS
309
`system' command in version 1.0.3; specify whether this
310
command is available via `ess-jags-system'; if not present,
311
then no links are created so that the `*shell*' buffer does
312
not become unresponsive during the batch run
313
314
Changes/New Features in 5.3.7:
315
* ESS: `ess-default-style' now *is* customizable, i.e.,
316
changing its value in `~/.emacs' now does have the desired
317
effect.
318
319
* ESS: `ess-font-lock-mode' is a new variable (default: t)
320
which controls whether font-locking is enabled in ESS buffers.
321
322
* ESS[R]: for XEmacs on Windows; another tweak to find R
323
versions
324
325
* ESS[SAS]: font-locking updated for ODS and SAS Bayesian
326
Procedures; a more consistent handling of SAS options by
327
`ess-sas-submit-command-options' which is buffer-local;
328
portable snooze for MS Windows via customize-able
329
`ess-sleep-for' (floats welcome); Xpdf now supported as a PDF
330
viewer
331
332
* ESS[Rnw]: now also works with "emacs -nw" and Emacs 22.
333
334
* ESS[JAGS]: now requires JAGS 1.0 (see the new ESS for JAGS
335
help section for more information): both need work;
336
suggestions welcome
337
338
* ESS[R]: [TAB] completion now uses the R-internal completion
339
mechanism (for R >= 2.5.0).
340
341
* ESS[R] ([S]): interpretation of "_" as assignment has been
342
removed in `ess-continued-statement-p' for R and S.
343
344
* several internal code cleanups.
345
346
* ESS[R]: An experimental version of a new command `Rgui' on MS
347
Windows to send lines directly from emacs to `Rgui' is
348
available in file `lisp/essd-rgui.el'. Preliminary
349
documentation is in file `doc/rgui-doc.txt'.
350
351
Changes/New Features in 5.3.6:
352
* ESS: for XEmacs, using "gnuclient" (without a "-q") works for
353
things like fix() after M-x gnuserv-start has been done.
354
355
* ESS[R]: M-x R-newest should now work in more situations on MS
356
Windows, e.g., when R has been installed in a non-default
357
"ProgramFiles" directory tree. In these cases, there's no
358
need to specify the name (and full path) of the R program
359
anymore.
360
361
* ESS[R]: For XEmacs, startup (with new tooltip code) works
362
again.
363
364
Changes/New Features in 5.3.5:
365
* ESS[R] a new defun is available, `M-x R-newest', which will
366
start the newest version of R that it can find on your system.
367
368
* ESS[R] add Sven Hartenstein's "R function arguments tips"
369
functionality, via new file `../lisp/essd-r-args.el'. Note
370
that this includes an "electric "("" behavior inside `R-mode'
371
which is _active by default_ and can be customized via
372
`ess-r-args-electric-paren'; i.e., use `(setq
373
ess-r-args-electric-paren nil)' to turn it off. Further,
374
`ess-r-args-show-as' allows to switch to the "tooltip" mode.
375
376
* ESS: functions `ess-get-pdf-viewer' and *-ps-viewer; built on
377
new customizable variables `ess-pdf-viewer-pref' and
378
`ess-ps-viewer-pref'; currently used in `ess-swv-PDF' and
379
`*-PS'.
380
381
* ESS[R] Improved `ess-swv-PDF' to run pdf viewer only if
382
pdflatex was ok
383
384
* ESS[R] Improved `ess-swv-weave' to start R automatically if
385
none is running.
386
387
* ESS: Do no longer ask _which_ ESS process to use if there is
388
only one.
389
390
Changes/New Features in 5.3.4:
391
* ESS[R] now better work with options(error=recover); and the
392
new default of CHM help files on windows.
393
394
* ESS[R] some more cleanup in the "sweave" functions
395
396
* miscellaneous fixes
397
398
Changes/New Features in 5.3.3:
399
* ESS[S] fix buglet (5.3.2 only) which left command prompt in
400
"execute buffer" and hence help files.
401
402
* new customizable variable `ess-display-buffer-reuse-frames'
403
set to true (which changes default behavior) such that
404
execution or help *frames* are reused.
405
406
Changes/New Features in 5.3.2:
407
* Classic BUGS now supported by `(require 'essd-bugs)' with
408
ESS[BUGS] and JAGS by `(require 'essd-jags)' with
409
ESS[JAGS]. But, only one of them can be used at a time
410
since they don't play nice together. Also, `C-c C-c'
411
is now bound to the function `ess-bugs-next-action'
412
(`F12' has been retired). And finally, note that
413
`essl-bug.el' is deprecated and the replacement is
414
`essl-bugs.el'.
415
416
* ESS[R] Improved some of the "Sweave-make" functions (yet
417
scarcely documented) in `ess-swv.el'.
418
419
* ESS[S] No longer mess with .Last.value (nor in other
420
"languages").
421
422
Changes/New Features in 5.3.1:
423
* See the docs for 2 ways to install ESS for XEmacs
424
1. by uncommenting the XEmacs part of Section 1
425
of `Makeconf' and performing `make install'
426
427
2. by unpacking either `ess-5.3.1.tgz' or
428
`ess-5.3.1.zip' into
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`PREFIX/lib/xemacs/site-packages' on unix or
430
`PREFIX\XEmacs\site-packages' on windows
431
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* ESS[R]: fixed bugs so that Rterm.exe can be found by XEmacs
433
434
* ESS[S]: `ess-toggle-S-assign-key' is slightly changed; in
435
particular, the default `ess-assign-key' is now `C-x ='.
436
437
* ESS[R]: `M-x R-site-search' is a new (slightly experimental)
438
utility similar to R's `RSiteSearch(..)' but with the
439
advantage of using Emacs' preferred browser, see
440
`browse-url-browser-function'
441
442
Changes/New Features in 5.3.0:
443
* ESS[BUGS]: sanely re-format statistical output, `.bog', from
444
scientific notation to numbers rounded with 4 decimal places
445
with `M-x ess-bugs-sci-round-to-4-dp'.
446
447
* The keys for navigating among section headings in help buffers
448
worked, but only for one language per session; they should
449
now work for multiple languages. (They were also broken on
450
Windows machines.)
451
452
* ESS[S] long standing buglets in the internal logic for loading
453
lisp code on Windows. Particularly fixed behavior in help
454
mode with S-plus GUI.
455
456
* New variable, `ess-use-inferior-program-name-in-buffer-name',
457
which enables using the executable name instead of the
458
dialect name for R. Feature request.
459
460
* ESS[S] `ess-execute-screen-options' now also works correctly
461
when there is more than one window *side-by-side* in the same
462
frame and runs in the correct buffer also when there is more
463
than one S buffer.
464
465
* iESS[S] new functions `ess-eval-paragraph-and-step' and
466
`ess-eval-function-or-paragraph-and-step' are bound to keys
467
`C-c C-p' and `C-c C-c' respectively and to the menu in
468
ESS-mode; also bound in the help mode (for evaluating
469
examples).
470
471
* ESS[S] new function `ess-toggle-S-assign-key' allows to
472
assign the " <- " insertion to an arbitrary key.
473
474
Changes/New Features in 5.2.12:
475
* ESS[SAS]: `M-;' fixed, but the XEmacs function `comment-dwim'
476
may be broken, if so, use `M-x comment-region' and `M-x
477
uncomment-region' instead; only valid PROCs are fontified
478
which is very helpful finding syntax errors (currently
479
supported: BASE, ETS, FSP, GRAPH, IML, INSIGHT and STAT); the
480
"feature" where `F'-keys take you to an empty buffer when the
481
requested destination is a file that does not exist has been
482
fixed, now the request results in a no-op. Further, sas-mode
483
now also works in simple terminals.
484
485
* Rterm/Cygwin combination works under Microsoft Windows.
486
487
* ESS[R]: internal calls use baseenv() instead of NULL and
488
define 'baseenv' where needed.
489
490
* New experimental support for installing ESS. See the file
491
`lisp/ess-install.el'.
492
493
Changes/New Features in 5.2.11:
494
* ESS Info entry and `dir' handled more effectively for GNU
495
Emacs users
496
497
* ESS[SAS]: temporary files created for batch submission of a
498
region are now named based on the current file; see
499
`ess-sas-file-root' for details; all `lag' and `dif'
500
functions now fontified correctly
501
502
* iESS[SAS]: fixed a few nagging bugs, however, still does not
503
appear to work at this time; please let us know if you have
504
any ideas.
505
506
* ESS[S]: Support for running other versions of Splus has been
507
added for unix. Two new variables, `ess-s-versions' and
508
`ess-s-versions-list', are used to tell ESS what other
509
versions of Splus you would like to run.
510
511
Changes/New Features in 5.2.10:
512
* ESS[R]: ess-r-versions can no longer be customized (since the
513
customization was not taking effect unless customizations
514
were loaded before ESS). Its value has been changed so that
515
it will also find R executables beginning "R-devel" and
516
"R-patched". If you wish to change this variable, it must be
517
set in your `.emacs' before ESS is loaded.
518
519
* Installation with GNU Make enhanced: unix and unix-like
520
operating systems will now be able to install ESS for all
521
users in either a GNU Emacs site-lisp or an XEmacs package
522
configuration by editing `lisp/ess-site.el' and `Makeconf'
523
accordingly, then issuing `make install'
524
525
* ESS[S]: Filename completion (inside strings) now also works in
526
XEmacs for R and S-plus.
527
528
Changes/New Features in 5.2.9:
529
* ESS[R] for Windows: the \ directory character bug with
530
respect to ess-load-file has been eradicated.
531
532
* iESS[SAS]: `C-c C-r' and `C-c C-b' once again work as
533
intended and documented.
534
535
* ESS[S]: M-x ess-fix-EQ-assign is a bit more agressive.
536
537
* ESS[S]: Imenu now also shows setAs(), etc.
538
539
* ESS[R]: R function pattern enhanced with underlying code such
540
that `M-C-a' (`ess-beginning-of-function') etc now work for
541
many more cases, including S4 method definitions.
542
543
* iESS[R]: myOwnhelp(1) no longer wrongly triggers help(1).
544
545
* ESS[R]: Improved detection of bogus help buffers: valid help
546
buffers containing with the string "no documentation"(e.g.
547
contour) were being treated as bogus.
548
549
* ESS[R]: In R help buffers, if
550
`options("help.try.all.packages" = TRUE)' then `?rlm' will
551
list which packages rlm is defined in. This help buffer is
552
not bogus, but instead is now relabelled "*help[R](rlm in
553
packages)*".
554
555
* ESS[STA]: add "//" as comment starting character to
556
syntax-table.
557
558
Changes/New Features in 5.2.8:
559
* iESS: [Tab] completes *file* names "inside string" as in
560
earlier (<= 5.2.3) ESS versions.
561
562
Changes/New Features in 5.2.7:
563
* If you use Custom to change the variable ess-toolbar-items,
564
the new toolbar is used in all subsequent ESS buffers.
565
566
* ESS[SAS]: new feature: if ess-sas-log-max >0 and your .log
567
grows to more than ess-sas-log-max bytes, just the first
568
ess-sas-log-max bytes are refreshed; this is helpful when
569
your .sas program generates lots of error messages and gets
570
too big for emacs to display
571
572
* ESS[R/S]: `M-;' in R/S editing modes will now indent with
573
either one or two hashes depending on context.
574
575
* ESS[R]: David Whiting's Sweave extensions (to 'noweb') are
576
now available (from ess-swv.el loaded by default).
577
578
Changes/New Features in 5.2.6:
579
* Removed non-ASCII characters in a few files.
580
581
* ESS[R]: now works better when UTF-8 locale is active; in
582
particular, you get correct directional quotes in R's startup
583
message for R-devel (unstable development version of R
584
2.1.0) when using environment variables LANGUAGE=en@quot
585
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
586
587
* ESS[SAS]: toggling of .log mode improved (`F10'); toggling of
588
.lst mode now also available (`C-F10'); killing all buffers
589
associated with .sas program no longer bound to `C-F10' since
590
its a bit overzealous.
591
592
* S-Plus 7 for Windows is now recognized.
593
594
* ESS[S] (incl. R): in auto-fill mode, strings are not wrapped
595
anymore.
596
597
* ESS[S] (incl. R): font-lock now correctly differs between R
598
and S, e.g., for "_"; both now fontify warning(.) and S does
599
terminate() additionally.
600
601
* Support for `bell' aka `beep' aka `ding' aka `alarm' in all
602
inferior modes: When \a is output "to the the console" at the
603
beginning of a line, the bell is rung.
604
605
Changes/New Features in 5.2.5:
606
* ESS[R]: `C-c C-q' or `Quit S' from the menu now should work
607
(again and less klunkily) and do not append `-exited' to the
608
buffer name. Further, the behavior of `(ess-cleanup)',
609
called from ess-quit, now depends on the new customizable
610
variable `ess-S-quit-kill-buffers-p' which defaults to `nil'.
611
Consequently, the question _"Delete all buffers associated
612
with ..?"_ will not be asked anymore by default.
613
614
* ESS[SAS] - ess-ebcdic-to-ascii-search-and-replace will now
615
work with the `recode' application as well which is available
616
on many platforms
617
618
* ESS[S] (incl. R): Name completion for slots of S4 objects now
619
works!
620
621
Changes/New Features in 5.2.4:
622
* The documentation now includes an overview of how to use the
623
emacs TAGS facility for S functions. (The distribution also
624
used to contain a directory `etc/other/Tags' where a ~1990
625
version of `etags.c' was distributed; this is no longer
626
relevant and so has been deleted.)
627
628
* ESS[SAS] - When you are working with EBCDIC files on an ASCII
629
platform, .log NOTEs may display as gibberish since the EBCDIC
630
characters are not converted to ASCII prior to their display.
631
So, the function ess-ebcdic-to-ascii-search-and-replace is
632
provided for convenience and is bound to `C-F11'. This
633
function requires the `dd' command (only available on unix or
634
unix-like platforms).
635
636
* ESS: Completion of object names is now always done
637
dynamically rather than allowing the option of using a
638
pre-computed database (by `ess-create-object-name-db') since
639
modern computers seem fast enough for dynamic completion.
640
(We expect few users, if any, have been using the
641
pre-computed database method.)
642
643
* ESS: object completion in iESS buffers running on Windows was
644
very slow (for GNU Emacs, but not XEmacs) and has now been
645
fixed. Further, it was more or less broken for all versions
646
of S-plus 6.x, and has been fixed to work everywhere but with
647
the Windows' GUI of S-plus. The list of objects now shows
648
unique names also when an object appears more than once in
649
the search path.
650
651
* ESS[R]: Completion of object names now also includes those
652
starting with ".".
653
654
Changes/New Features in 5.2.3:
655
* ESS: When new inferior ESS processes are created, by default
656
they will replace the current buffer (this restores behavior
657
from pre 5.2.0). If you wish new ESS processes to start in
658
another window of the current frame, set
659
inferior-ess-same-window to nil.
660
661
* New variables inferior-Splus-args and inferior-R-args provide
662
a way to pass command line arguments to starting S and R
663
processes.
664
665
Changes/New Features in 5.2.2:
666
* bug-fixes for 5.2.1 (require 'executable), html docs, etc.
667
668
* ess-lisp-directory/../doc/info added to Info-directory-list
669
if ess-info not found by info
670
671
* ESS[R]: If you have other versions of R on your exec-path,
672
such as "R-1.8.1" with Unix or "rw1081" with Windows, ESS
673
will find them and create appropriate functions, such as `M-x
674
R-1.8.1' or `M-x rw1081', for calling them. By default only
675
Unix programs beginning "R-1" and "R-2" and Windows programs
676
parallel to the version of R in your exec-path will be found,
677
but see ess-r-versions and ess-rterm-versions for ways to
678
find other versions of R.
679
680
* ESS[R]: Other versions of R, such as "R-1.8.1" on Unix and
681
"rw1081" on Windows, are added to the "ESS / Start Process /
682
Other" menu.
683
684
* ESS[S]: If you have other versions of S-Plus on your Windows
685
computer, such as S-Plus 6.1 or S-Plus 4.5, ESS will find
686
them and create appropriate functions, such as `M-x splus61',
687
for calling the console version (Sqpe) inside an emacs
688
buffer. By default only programs installed in the default
689
location will be found, but see ess-SHOME-versions for ways
690
to find other versions of S-Plus.
691
692
* ESS[S]: Other versions of Sqpe on Windows, such as "splus61",
693
are added to the "ESS / Start Process / Other" menu.
694
695
* ESS[R]: (bug fix) ess-quit (bound to `C-c C-q') should now
696
quit the inferior R process, when issued from either the
697
inferior buffer, or from a .R buffer.
698
699
Changes/New Features in 5.2.1:
700
* ESS[S] (R and S-plus): now have toolbar support with icons to
701
evaluate code in the inferior process or to switch there.
702
This code is experimental and likely to change as XEmacs/Emacs
703
issues get resolved. The toolbar should be enabled if your
704
Emacs displays images, but can be disabled with the variable
705
ess-use-toolbar. Thanks to David Smith from Insightful for
706
the S-plus logo.
707
708
* ESS[SAS]: ess-sas-graph-view (`F12') enhanced; you can specify
709
external file viewers for each graphics file type via the
710
alist ess-sas-graph-view-viewer-alist; also .jpg/.gif are now
711
handled by image-mode on XEmacs, if available, otherwise by
712
graphics primitives as before
713
714
Changes/New Features in 5.2.0:
715
* ESS[BUGS]: new info documentation! now supports interactive
716
processing thanks to Aki Vehtari (mailto:Aki.Vehtari@hut.fi);
717
new architecture-independent unix support as well as support
718
for BUGS v. 0.5
719
720
* ESS[SAS]: convert .log to .sas with ess-sas-transcript; info
721
documentation improved; Local Variable bug fixes; SAS/IML
722
statements/functions now highlighted; files edited remotely
723
by ange-ftp/EFS/tramp are recognized and pressing SUBMIT
724
opens a buffer on the remote host via the local variable
725
ess-sas-shell-buffer-remote-init which defaults to "ssh";
726
changed the definition of the variable
727
ess-sas-edit-keys-toggle to boolean rather than 0/1; added
728
the function ess-electric-run-semicolon which automatically
729
reverse indents lines containing only "run;"; `C-F1' creates
730
MS RTF portrait from the current buffer; `C-F2' creates MS
731
RTF landscape from the current buffer; `C-F9' opens a SAS
732
DATASET with PROC INSIGHT rather than PROC FSVIEW; "inferior"
733
aliases for SAS batch: `C-c C-r' for submit region, `C-c
734
C-b' for submit buffer, `C-c C-x' for goto .log; `C-c C-y'
735
for goto .lst
736
737
* ESS[S]: Pressing underscore ("_") once inserts " <- " (as
738
before); pressing underscore twice inserts a literal
739
underscore. To stop this smart behaviour, add
740
"(ess-toggle-underscore nil)" to your .emacs after ess-site
741
has been loaded; ess-dump-filename-template-proto (new name!)
742
now can be customized successfully (for S language dialects);
743
Support for Imenu has been improved; set ess-imenu-use-S to
744
non-nil to get an "Imenu-S" item on your menubar; ess-help:
745
Now using nice underlines (instead of `nuke-* ^H_')
746
747
* ESS[R]: After (require 'essa-r), `M-x ess-r-var' allows to
748
load numbers from any Emacs buffer into an existing *R*
749
process; `M-x ess-rdired' gives a "directory editor" of R
750
objects; fixed ess-retr-lastvalue-command, i.e. .Last.value
751
bug (thanks to David Brahm)
752
753
* ESS: Support for creating new window frames has been added to
754
ESS. Inferior ESS processes can be created in dedicated
755
frames by setting inferior-ess-own-frame to t. ESS help
756
buffers can also open in new frames; see the documentation
757
for ess-help-own-frame for details. (Thanks to Kevin Rodgers
758
for contributing code.)
759
760
Changes/New Features in 5.1.24:
761
* The version number is now correct even inside ESS/Emacs
762
763
Changes/New Features in 5.1.23:
764
* Minor more Makefile clean up.
765
766
Changes/New Features in 5.1.22:
767
* Besides info documentation, PDF and HTML documentation are
768
also provided (instead of built using "make") and available
769
on the web as well; see ESS web page
770
(http://ess.r-project.org/) and StatLib
771
(http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/ESS/doc)
772
773
* Now that info documentation is available, the README.* files
774
are no longer supported. However, they are still distributed
775
for what it's worth.
776
777
* ESS is now an XEmacs package! See XEmacs Installation HOWTO
778
(http://www.xemacs.org/Install/index.html) for details
779
(specifically, items 10-15).
780
781
* ESS[SAS]: more user-friendly enhancements for remote SAS
782
batch jobs with Kermit file transfers (LOG and OUTPUT
783
function key features now supported). Multiple shells now
784
supported so you can run SAS on different computers from
785
different buffers by setting the buffer-local variable
786
ess-sas-shell-buffer to unique buffer names.
787
788
* Major re-vamping of Makefile/Makeconf.
789
790
Changes/New Features in 5.1.21:
791
* ESS[SAS]: info documentation now available!, see ESS->Help
792
for SAS; `F12' opens GSASFILE nearest point for viewing
793
either within emacs, when available, or via an external
794
viewer; more syntax highlighting keywords; more enhancements
795
for remote SAS batch jobs with Kermit; new framework for
796
remote SAS interactive jobs, see ess-remote
797
798
* ESS[S]: info documentation now available!, see ESS->Help for
799
the S family
800
801
* Makefile: tag now independent of rel; info files made by
802
doc/Makefile and installed in new info sub-directory
803
804
Changes/New Features in 5.1.20:
805
* New `options()$STERM' in the S dialects (S, S-Plus, R). The
806
S program can determine the environment in which it is
807
currently running. ESS sets the option to `iESS' or `ddeESS'
808
when it starts an S language process. We recommend other
809
specific values for S language processes that ESS does not
810
start.
811
812
* New `ess-mouse-me' function, assigned to S-mouse-3 by default.
813
User may click on a word or region and then choose from the
814
menu to display the item, or a summary, or a plot, etc. This
815
feature is still under development.
816
817
* GNU Emacs 21.1 is now supported (fixed for S dialects, SAS &
818
BUGS), (some from Stephen Eglen).
819
820
* XEmacs 21.x is now supported (fixed w32-using-nt bug)
821
822
* XEmacs on Win (NT) is better supported.
823
824
* Workaround for bug in Sqpe+6 (S-PLUS 6 for Win).
825
826
* should now work even when imenu is not available (for old
827
XEmacsen).
828
829
* ESS[SAS]: XEmacs-Imenu fix; `C-TAB' is globalized along with
830
your function-key definitions, if specified; you can specify
831
your SAS library definitions outside of autoexec.sas for
832
ess-sas-data-view with SAS code placed in the variable
833
ess-sas-data-view-libname, also the dataset name is defaulted
834
to the nearest permanent dataset to point; Speedbar support
835
now works for permanent datasets, please ignore first./last.;
836
new font-locking is now the default with more improvements
837
for font-locking PROCs, macro statements, * ; and %* ;
838
comments; you can toggle sas-log-mode with `F10' which will
839
font-lock your .log (if it isn't too big); submit remote .sas
840
files accessed with ange-ftp, EFS or Tramp (Kermit is
841
experimental) by setting ess-sas-submit-method to 'sh;
842
ess-sas-submit-command and ess-sas-submit-command-options are
843
buffer-local so you can have local file variable sections at
844
the end of your .sas files to request different executables
845
or specify special options and the local file variables are
846
re-read at submit instead of only at file open so that if you
847
make a change it is picked up immediately;
848
849
* ESS[BUGS]: font-lock with `in' fixed.
850
851
* for STATA: font-lock bug fixed.
852
853
* for Rd mode: `C-c C-v' and `switch-process' in menu.
854
further, `C-c C-f' prefix (Rd-font) for inserting or
855
surrounding a word by things such as \code{.},
856
\code{\link{.}}, \emph{.} etc.
857
858
* new functions (ess-directory-function) and
859
(ess-narrow-to-defun) ess-directory <-> default-directory
860
logic (Jeff Mincy).
861
862
* Re-organized Makefile and fixed a few bugs.
863
864
Changes/New Features in 5.1.19:
865
* S+6 now supported (Tony Rossini (Unix) and Rich Heiberger
866
(Windows))
867
868
* New BUGS support through ESS[BUGS] mode (Rodney Sparapani)
869
Templates assist you in writing .bug and .cmd code (.cmd and
870
.log are replaced by .bmd and .bog to avoid emacs extension
871
collisions). Substitution" parameters facilitate "automagic"
872
generation of data...in" and "init...in" filenames, "const
873
N=" from your data file and "monitor()/stats()" commands.
874
Activated by pressing `F12'.
875
876
* Fixes for `ess-smart-underscore' SAS breakage (Rich Heiberger)
877
878
* You can change between PC and Unix, local and global SAS
879
function-key definitions interactively (Rich Heiberger)
880
881
* `C-Submit' a highlighted region to SAS batch (Rodney
882
Sparapani)
883
884
* New and improved SAS syntax highlighting (Rodney Sparapani)
885
To get the new functionality, set ess-sas-run-make-regexp to
886
nil. Also available in .log files via `F10'.
887
888
* Open a permanent SAS dataset for viewing via `F9' (Rodney
889
Sparapani) You must have the library defined in autoexec.sas
890
for it to work.
891
892
* User-friendly defaults for `sas-program',
893
`ess-sas-batch-pre-command' and `ess-sas-batch-post-command'
894
as well Customize support for these and other ESS[SAS]
895
variables (Rodney Sparapani)
896
897
* `ess-sas-suffix-2' now defaults to .dat via `F11' (Rodney
898
Sparapani)
899
900
* Emacs/XEmacs, Unix/Windows issues collectively handled in
901
ess-emcs.el
902
903
* defadvice solves problem of missing *ESS* (thanks to Jeff
904
Mincy)
905
906
* Improved manual a bit by including things that were only in
907
`README'.
908
909
Changes/New Features in 5.1.18:
910
* New `ess-smart-underscore' function, now assigned to "_" by
911
default. Inserts `ess-S-assign' (customizable " <- "),
912
unless inside string and comments where plain "_" is used
913
instead. (MM)
914
915
* Fixes for longstanding interactive SAS breakage (RMH)
916
917
Changes/New Features in 5.1.17:
918
* Documentation for Windows Installation (Rich Heiberger)
919
920
* removal of ess-vars, finalization of customize support (in the
921
sense that there is no more use of ess-vars, but that we need
922
to fix ess-cust) (AJ Rossini)
923
924
* Many small (and large) fixes/contributions (MMaechler)
925
926
* addition of the "S-equal" variable and provide `M-x
927
ess-add-MM-keys' a way to remap "_" to `ess-S-assign',
928
typically " <- ", but customizable. (MMaechler)
929
930
Changes/New Features in 5.1.16:
931
* BUG FIXES
932
933
* Better SAS support
934
935
Changes/New Features in 5.1.15:
936
* BUG FIXES
937
938
Changes/New Features in 5.1.14:
939
* Yet more fixes to SAS mode, (Rich Heiberger and Rodney
940
Sparapani)
941
942
* Customize support (for most Emacsen which support it)
943
(AJRossini)
944
945
* ARC and ViSta support out of the box, and fixes for XLispStat
946
(AJRossini)
947
948
Changes/New Features in 5.1.13:
949
* Version numbering finally all depending on the ./VERSION file,
950
thanks to Martin Maechler.
951
952
* Yet more fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rich Heiberger.
953
954
Changes/New Features in 5.1.12:
955
* Splus 5.1 stabilized, thanks to Martin Maechler, Bill
956
Venables, Chuck Taylor, and others.
957
958
* More fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rodney Sparapani and Rich
959
Heiberger.
960
961
Changes/New Features in 5.1.11:
962
* More fixes to Stata mode, thanks to Brendan Halpin
963
(mailto:brendan@essex.ac.uk).
964
965
* fixed bugs in ESS-elsewhere, thanks to many testers
966
967
* README.SPLUS4WIN has DETAILED instructions for S-PLUS 2000,
968
thanks to David Brahm (mailto:brahm@alum.mit.edu).
969
970
* Fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rodney Sparapani
971
972
Changes/New Features in 5.1.10:
973
* More fixes to Stata mode
974
975
* primitive generic version of ESS-elsewhere
976
977
* Small fixes to SAS/Stata.
978
979
Changes/New Features in 5.1.9:
980
* Stata mode works
981
982
* Literate Data Analysis using Noweb works
983
984
Changes/New Features in 5.1.8:
985
* Bug fixes
986
987
* R documentation mode defaults changed
988
989
Changes/New Features in 5.1.2:
990
* able to use inferior iESS mode to communicate directly with a
991
running S-Plus 4.x process using the Microsoft DDE protocol.
992
We use the familiar (from Unix ESS) `C-c C-n' and related key
993
sequences to send lines from the S-mode file to the inferior
994
S process. We continue to edit S input files in ESS[S] mode
995
and transcripts of previous S sessions in ESS Transcript
996
mode. All three modes know the S language, syntax, and
997
indentation patterns and provide the syntactic highlighting
998
that eases the programming tasks.
999
953
1000
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