1 ANNOUNCING ESS
****************
The ESS Developers proudly announce the release of ESS
5.3.11
Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) provides an intelligent, consistent
interface between the user and the software. ESS interfaces with
S-PLUS, R, SAS, BUGS and other statistical analysis packages under the
Unix, Microsoft Windows, and Apple Mac OS operating systems. ESS is a
package for the GNU Emacs and XEmacs text editors whose features ESS
uses to streamline the creation and use of statistical software. ESS
knows the syntax and grammar of statistical analysis packages and
provides consistent display and editing features based on that
knowledge. ESS assists in interactive and batch execution of
statements written in these statistical analysis languages.
ESS is freely available under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Please read the file COPYING which comes with the distribution, for
more information about the license. For more detailed information,
please read the README files that come with ESS.
1.1 Getting the Latest Version
==============================
The latest released version of ESS is always available on the web at:
ESS web page (http://ess.r-project.org) or StatLib
(http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/ESS/)
The latest development version of ESS is available via
`https://svn.R-project.org/ESS/', the ESS Subversion repository. If
you have a Subversion client (see `http://subversion.tigris.org/'), you
can download the sources using:
% svn checkout https://svn.r-project.org/ESS/trunk PATH
which will put the ESS files into directory PATH. Later, within
that directory, `svn update' will bring that directory up to date.
Windows-based tools such as TortoiseSVN are also available for
downloading the files. Alternatively, you can browse the sources with a
web browser at: ESS SVN site (https://svn.r-project.org/ESS/trunk).
However, please use a subversion client instead to minimize the load
when retrieving.
If you remove other versions of ESS from your emacs load-path, you
can then use the development version by adding the following to .emacs:
(load "/path/to/ess-svn/lisp/ess-site.el")
Note that https is required, and that the SSL certificate for the
Subversion server of the R project is
Certificate information:
- Hostname: svn.r-project.org
- Valid: from Jul 16 08:10:01 2004 GMT until Jul 14 08:10:01 2014 GMT
- Issuer: Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, CH
- Fingerprint: c9:5d:eb:f9:f2:56:d1:04:ba:44:61:f8:64:6b:d9:33:3f:93:6e:ad
(currently, there is no "trusted certificate"). You can accept this
certificate permanently and will not be asked about it anymore.
1.2 Current Features
====================
* Languages Supported:
* S family (S 3/4, S-PLUS 3.x/4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x, and R)
* SAS
* BUGS/JAGS
* Stata
* XLispStat including Arc and ViSta
* Editing source code (S family, SAS, BUGS/JAGS, XLispStat)
* Syntactic indentation and highlighting of source code
* Partial evaluation of code
* Loading and error-checking of code
* Source code revision maintenance
* Batch execution (SAS, BUGS/JAGS)
* Use of imenu to provide links to appropriate functions
* Interacting with the process (S family, SAS, XLispStat)
* Command-line editing
* Searchable Command history
* Command-line completion of S family object names and file
names
* Quick access to object lists and search lists
* Transcript recording
* Interface to the help system
* Transcript manipulation (S family, XLispStat)
* Recording and saving transcript files
* Manipulating and editing saved transcripts
* Re-evaluating commands from transcript files
* Help File Editing (R)
* Syntactic indentation and highlighting of source code.
* Sending Examples to running ESS process.
* Previewing
1.3 Requirements
================
ESS has been tested with
* R >=0.49
* S-PLUS 3.3-4, 4.5, 2000, 5.0-1, 6.0-2, 7.0, 8.0
* S4
* SAS >=6.12
* BUGS 0.5, 0.6
* JAGS 1.0
* Stata >=6.0 (command line only)
on the following platforms
* Linux/x86 (all)
* Solaris (all)
* MS Windows 98/NT/2000/XP (R, S-PLUS, SAS interactive only, and
BUGS)
* Apple Mac OS X 10.4-5 (R, JAGS, Stata)
with the following versions of emacs
* GNU Emacs 20.3-7, 21.1, 21.3-4, 22.1
* XEmacs 21.4.0-8, 21.4.9-13(1), 21.4.14-15, 21.4.17-21 (betas not
supported, but 21.5.23+ may work)
---------- Footnotes ----------
(1) require the files.el patch to revert-buffer for the Local
Variables updating problem
1.4 Stability
=============
Versions 5.3.x are meant to be release-quality versions. While some
new features are being introduced, we are cleaning up and improving the
interface. We know about some remaining documentation inconsistencies.
Patches or suggested fixes with bug reports are much appreciated!
1.5 Mailing List
================
There is a mailing list for discussions and announcements relating to
ESS. Join the list by sending an e-mail with "subscribe ess-help" (or
"help") in the body to <ess-help-request@stat.math.ethz.ch>;
contributions to the list may be mailed to
<ess-help@stat.math.ethz.ch>. Rest assured, this is a fairly
low-volume mailing list.
The purposes of the mailing list include
* helping users of ESS to get along with it.
* discussing aspects of using ESS on Emacs and XEmacs.
* suggestions for improvements.
* announcements of new releases of ESS.
* posting small patches to ESS.
1.6 Reporting Bugs
==================
Please send bug reports, suggestions etc. to
<ESS-bugs@stat.math.ethz.ch>
The easiest way to do this is within Emacs by typing
`M-x ess-submit-bug-report'
This also gives the maintainers valuable information about your
installation which may help us to identify or even fix the bug.
If Emacs reports an error, backtraces can help us debug the problem.
Type "M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET". Then run the
command that causes the error and you should see a *Backtrace* buffer
containing debug information; send us that buffer.
Note that comments, suggestions, words of praise and large cash
donations are also more than welcome.
1.7 Authors
===========
* A.J. Rossini (mailto:blindglobe@gmail.com)
* Richard M. Heiberger (mailto:rmh@temple.edu)
* Kurt Hornik (mailto:Kurt.Hornik@R-project.org)
* Martin Maechler (mailto:maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch)
* Rodney A. Sparapani (mailto:rsparapa@mcw.edu)
* Stephen Eglen (mailto:stephen@gnu.org)
1.8 License
===========
ESS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
version.
ESS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
in the file COPYING in the same directory as this file for more details.
1.9 New Features
================
Changes/New Features in 5.3.11:
* ESS[SAS]: work around buglet in Emacs 22.2 & 22.3 which fails
to set case-fold fontification automatically.
* Rd mode: support new keyword 'Rdversion'
* ESS[R]: now again works with Emacs 21.x
Changes/New Features in 5.3.10:
* Fixed noweb-mode bug accidentally introduced into 5.3.9
* In noweb-mode, e.g., Rnw-mode, electric "<" also inserts
closing "@". Further, the code chunk boundaries are better
kept up-to-date, such that code[R] <-> text[LaTeX] minor
mode switching should happen more reliably.
* In noweb-mode, fix a buglet in rare [Enter] or [Tab]
behavior; further, by default disable the former `[[' ..
`]]' code-protection-when-filling behavior which has been
found to be buggy.
Changes/New Features in 5.3.9:
* ESS[SAS]: evince PDF viewer now supported as well; search
order: evince, Xpdf, Adobe/Acrobat Reader
* ESS[R]: added support for Roxygen, potentially to be extended.
* ESS[S] (and R): inferior (`*R*') and transcript modes no
longer fontify language keywords (such as `for', `in', etc).
* iESS[Stata]: Customize the `ess-sta-delimiter-friendly'
setting to t to convert embedded semi-colons to newlines for
Stata processing.
* Sweave fix for embedded blanks in PDF reader and PDF files
* Several fixes for Major Mode Convention violations in
`ess-mode' and `noweb-mode'.
* ESS[JAGS]: `M-x comment-region' now available!
* ESS[S] The `ess-swv-*' commands (and keybindings) are now in
a submenu of the "Noweb" menu, when editing Sweave files.
Changes/New Features in 5.3.8:
* ESS[JAGS]: more separation from ESS[BUGS] (as much as is
currently planned); now `C-c C-c' on an empty `.jmd' creates
a template as it should; symbolic links are created for CODA
output so BOA is happy: from `index.txt' to `.ind' and
`chain#.txt' to `#.out'
* ESS[SAS]: buffer-local `ess-sas-submit-command' and
`ess-sas-submit-command-options' now recognized by
`ess-sas-submit-region'
* ESS[S]: When trying to evaluate code in an S language buffer
and there is no associated process, now start R
automatically instead of signalling an error. Also, restart
R if there is an associated process which is not running.
However, do not start R just via the "electric" `('
(`ess-r-args-auto-show').
* ESS[S]: For (one-line) functions withOUT '{ .. }' bodys, the
end of function is now correctly found more often. This
notably improves `C-c C-c'
(`ess-eval-function-or-paragraph-and-step').
* ESS[JAGS]: cleanup/re-organization of elisp code; symbolic
links for CODA output are now only created by the new JAGS
`system' command in version 1.0.3; specify whether this
command is available via `ess-jags-system'; if not present,
then no links are created so that the `*shell*' buffer does
not become unresponsive during the batch run
Changes/New Features in 5.3.7:
* ESS: `ess-default-style' now *is* customizable, i.e.,
changing its value in `~/.emacs' now does have the desired
effect.
* ESS: `ess-font-lock-mode' is a new variable (default: t)
which controls whether font-locking is enabled in ESS buffers.
* ESS[R]: for XEmacs on Windows; another tweak to find R
versions
* ESS[SAS]: font-locking updated for ODS and SAS Bayesian
Procedures; a more consistent handling of SAS options by
`ess-sas-submit-command-options' which is buffer-local;
portable snooze for MS Windows via customize-able
`ess-sleep-for' (floats welcome); Xpdf now supported as a PDF
viewer
* ESS[Rnw]: now also works with "emacs -nw" and Emacs 22.
* ESS[JAGS]: now requires JAGS 1.0 (see the new ESS for JAGS
help section for more information): both need work;
suggestions welcome
* ESS[R]: [TAB] completion now uses the R-internal completion
mechanism (for R >= 2.5.0).
* ESS[R] ([S]): interpretation of "_" as assignment has been
removed in `ess-continued-statement-p' for R and S.
* several internal code cleanups.
* ESS[R]: An experimental version of a new command `Rgui' on MS
Windows to send lines directly from emacs to `Rgui' is
available in file `lisp/essd-rgui.el'. Preliminary
documentation is in file `doc/rgui-doc.txt'.
Changes/New Features in 5.3.6:
* ESS: for XEmacs, using "gnuclient" (without a "-q") works for
things like fix() after M-x gnuserv-start has been done.
* ESS[R]: M-x R-newest should now work in more situations on MS
Windows, e.g., when R has been installed in a non-default
"ProgramFiles" directory tree. In these cases, there's no
need to specify the name (and full path) of the R program
anymore.
* ESS[R]: For XEmacs, startup (with new tooltip code) works
again.
Changes/New Features in 5.3.5:
* ESS[R] a new defun is available, `M-x R-newest', which will
start the newest version of R that it can find on your system.
* ESS[R] add Sven Hartenstein's "R function arguments tips"
functionality, via new file `../lisp/essd-r-args.el'. Note
that this includes an "electric "("" behavior inside `R-mode'
which is _active by default_ and can be customized via
`ess-r-args-electric-paren'; i.e., use `(setq
ess-r-args-electric-paren nil)' to turn it off. Further,
`ess-r-args-show-as' allows to switch to the "tooltip" mode.
* ESS: functions `ess-get-pdf-viewer' and *-ps-viewer; built on
new customizable variables `ess-pdf-viewer-pref' and
`ess-ps-viewer-pref'; currently used in `ess-swv-PDF' and
`*-PS'.
* ESS[R] Improved `ess-swv-PDF' to run pdf viewer only if
pdflatex was ok
* ESS[R] Improved `ess-swv-weave' to start R automatically if
none is running.
* ESS: Do no longer ask _which_ ESS process to use if there is
only one.
Changes/New Features in 5.3.4:
* ESS[R] now better work with options(error=recover); and the
new default of CHM help files on windows.
* ESS[R] some more cleanup in the "sweave" functions
* miscellaneous fixes
Changes/New Features in 5.3.3:
* ESS[S] fix buglet (5.3.2 only) which left command prompt in
"execute buffer" and hence help files.
* new customizable variable `ess-display-buffer-reuse-frames'
set to true (which changes default behavior) such that
execution or help *frames* are reused.
Changes/New Features in 5.3.2:
* Classic BUGS now supported by `(require 'essd-bugs)' with
ESS[BUGS] and JAGS by `(require 'essd-jags)' with
ESS[JAGS]. But, only one of them can be used at a time
since they don't play nice together. Also, `C-c C-c'
is now bound to the function `ess-bugs-next-action'
(`F12' has been retired). And finally, note that
`essl-bug.el' is deprecated and the replacement is
`essl-bugs.el'.
* ESS[R] Improved some of the "Sweave-make" functions (yet
scarcely documented) in `ess-swv.el'.
* ESS[S] No longer mess with .Last.value (nor in other
"languages").
Changes/New Features in 5.3.1:
* See the docs for 2 ways to install ESS for XEmacs
1. by uncommenting the XEmacs part of Section 1
of `Makeconf' and performing `make install'
2. by unpacking either `ess-5.3.1.tgz' or
`ess-5.3.1.zip' into
`PREFIX/lib/xemacs/site-packages' on unix or
`PREFIX\XEmacs\site-packages' on windows
* ESS[R]: fixed bugs so that Rterm.exe can be found by XEmacs
* ESS[S]: `ess-toggle-S-assign-key' is slightly changed; in
particular, the default `ess-assign-key' is now `C-x ='.
* ESS[R]: `M-x R-site-search' is a new (slightly experimental)
utility similar to R's `RSiteSearch(..)' but with the
advantage of using Emacs' preferred browser, see
`browse-url-browser-function'
Changes/New Features in 5.3.0:
* ESS[BUGS]: sanely re-format statistical output, `.bog', from
scientific notation to numbers rounded with 4 decimal places
with `M-x ess-bugs-sci-round-to-4-dp'.
* The keys for navigating among section headings in help buffers
worked, but only for one language per session; they should
now work for multiple languages. (They were also broken on
Windows machines.)
* ESS[S] long standing buglets in the internal logic for loading
lisp code on Windows. Particularly fixed behavior in help
mode with S-plus GUI.
* New variable, `ess-use-inferior-program-name-in-buffer-name',
which enables using the executable name instead of the
dialect name for R. Feature request.
* ESS[S] `ess-execute-screen-options' now also works correctly
when there is more than one window *side-by-side* in the same
frame and runs in the correct buffer also when there is more
than one S buffer.
* iESS[S] new functions `ess-eval-paragraph-and-step' and
`ess-eval-function-or-paragraph-and-step' are bound to keys
`C-c C-p' and `C-c C-c' respectively and to the menu in
ESS-mode; also bound in the help mode (for evaluating
examples).
* ESS[S] new function `ess-toggle-S-assign-key' allows to
assign the " <- " insertion to an arbitrary key.
Changes/New Features in 5.2.12:
* ESS[SAS]: `M-;' fixed, but the XEmacs function `comment-dwim'
may be broken, if so, use `M-x comment-region' and `M-x
uncomment-region' instead; only valid PROCs are fontified
which is very helpful finding syntax errors (currently
supported: BASE, ETS, FSP, GRAPH, IML, INSIGHT and STAT); the
"feature" where `F'-keys take you to an empty buffer when the
requested destination is a file that does not exist has been
fixed, now the request results in a no-op. Further, sas-mode
now also works in simple terminals.
* Rterm/Cygwin combination works under Microsoft Windows.
* ESS[R]: internal calls use baseenv() instead of NULL and
define 'baseenv' where needed.
* New experimental support for installing ESS. See the file
`lisp/ess-install.el'.
Changes/New Features in 5.2.11:
* ESS Info entry and `dir' handled more effectively for GNU
Emacs users
* ESS[SAS]: temporary files created for batch submission of a
region are now named based on the current file; see
`ess-sas-file-root' for details; all `lag' and `dif'
functions now fontified correctly
* iESS[SAS]: fixed a few nagging bugs, however, still does not
appear to work at this time; please let us know if you have
any ideas.
* ESS[S]: Support for running other versions of Splus has been
added for unix. Two new variables, `ess-s-versions' and
`ess-s-versions-list', are used to tell ESS what other
versions of Splus you would like to run.
Changes/New Features in 5.2.10:
* ESS[R]: ess-r-versions can no longer be customized (since the
customization was not taking effect unless customizations
were loaded before ESS). Its value has been changed so that
it will also find R executables beginning "R-devel" and
"R-patched". If you wish to change this variable, it must be
set in your `.emacs' before ESS is loaded.
* Installation with GNU Make enhanced: unix and unix-like
operating systems will now be able to install ESS for all
users in either a GNU Emacs site-lisp or an XEmacs package
configuration by editing `lisp/ess-site.el' and `Makeconf'
accordingly, then issuing `make install'
* ESS[S]: Filename completion (inside strings) now also works in
XEmacs for R and S-plus.
Changes/New Features in 5.2.9:
* ESS[R] for Windows: the \ directory character bug with
respect to ess-load-file has been eradicated.
* iESS[SAS]: `C-c C-r' and `C-c C-b' once again work as
intended and documented.
* ESS[S]: M-x ess-fix-EQ-assign is a bit more agressive.
* ESS[S]: Imenu now also shows setAs(), etc.
* ESS[R]: R function pattern enhanced with underlying code such
that `M-C-a' (`ess-beginning-of-function') etc now work for
many more cases, including S4 method definitions.
* iESS[R]: myOwnhelp(1) no longer wrongly triggers help(1).
* ESS[R]: Improved detection of bogus help buffers: valid help
buffers containing with the string "no documentation"(e.g.
contour) were being treated as bogus.
* ESS[R]: In R help buffers, if
`options("help.try.all.packages" = TRUE)' then `?rlm' will
list which packages rlm is defined in. This help buffer is
not bogus, but instead is now relabelled "*help[R](rlm in
packages)*".
* ESS[STA]: add "//" as comment starting character to
syntax-table.
Changes/New Features in 5.2.8:
* iESS: [Tab] completes *file* names "inside string" as in
earlier (<= 5.2.3) ESS versions.
Changes/New Features in 5.2.7:
* If you use Custom to change the variable ess-toolbar-items,
the new toolbar is used in all subsequent ESS buffers.
* ESS[SAS]: new feature: if ess-sas-log-max >0 and your .log
grows to more than ess-sas-log-max bytes, just the first
ess-sas-log-max bytes are refreshed; this is helpful when
your .sas program generates lots of error messages and gets
too big for emacs to display
* ESS[R/S]: `M-;' in R/S editing modes will now indent with
either one or two hashes depending on context.
* ESS[R]: David Whiting's Sweave extensions (to 'noweb') are
now available (from ess-swv.el loaded by default).
Changes/New Features in 5.2.6:
* Removed non-ASCII characters in a few files.
* ESS[R]: now works better when UTF-8 locale is active; in
particular, you get correct directional quotes in R's startup
message for R-devel (unstable development version of R
2.1.0) when using environment variables LANGUAGE=en@quot
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
* ESS[SAS]: toggling of .log mode improved (`F10'); toggling of
.lst mode now also available (`C-F10'); killing all buffers
associated with .sas program no longer bound to `C-F10' since
its a bit overzealous.
* S-Plus 7 for Windows is now recognized.
* ESS[S] (incl. R): in auto-fill mode, strings are not wrapped
anymore.
* ESS[S] (incl. R): font-lock now correctly differs between R
and S, e.g., for "_"; both now fontify warning(.) and S does
terminate() additionally.
* Support for `bell' aka `beep' aka `ding' aka `alarm' in all
inferior modes: When \a is output "to the the console" at the
beginning of a line, the bell is rung.
Changes/New Features in 5.2.5:
* ESS[R]: `C-c C-q' or `Quit S' from the menu now should work
(again and less klunkily) and do not append `-exited' to the
buffer name. Further, the behavior of `(ess-cleanup)',
called from ess-quit, now depends on the new customizable
variable `ess-S-quit-kill-buffers-p' which defaults to `nil'.
Consequently, the question _"Delete all buffers associated
with ..?"_ will not be asked anymore by default.
* ESS[SAS] - ess-ebcdic-to-ascii-search-and-replace will now
work with the `recode' application as well which is available
on many platforms
* ESS[S] (incl. R): Name completion for slots of S4 objects now
works!
Changes/New Features in 5.2.4:
* The documentation now includes an overview of how to use the
emacs TAGS facility for S functions. (The distribution also
used to contain a directory `etc/other/Tags' where a ~1990
version of `etags.c' was distributed; this is no longer
relevant and so has been deleted.)
* ESS[SAS] - When you are working with EBCDIC files on an ASCII
platform, .log NOTEs may display as gibberish since the EBCDIC
characters are not converted to ASCII prior to their display.
So, the function ess-ebcdic-to-ascii-search-and-replace is
provided for convenience and is bound to `C-F11'. This
function requires the `dd' command (only available on unix or
unix-like platforms).
* ESS: Completion of object names is now always done
dynamically rather than allowing the option of using a
pre-computed database (by `ess-create-object-name-db') since
modern computers seem fast enough for dynamic completion.
(We expect few users, if any, have been using the
pre-computed database method.)
* ESS: object completion in iESS buffers running on Windows was
very slow (for GNU Emacs, but not XEmacs) and has now been
fixed. Further, it was more or less broken for all versions
of S-plus 6.x, and has been fixed to work everywhere but with
the Windows' GUI of S-plus. The list of objects now shows
unique names also when an object appears more than once in
the search path.
* ESS[R]: Completion of object names now also includes those
starting with ".".
Changes/New Features in 5.2.3:
* ESS: When new inferior ESS processes are created, by default
they will replace the current buffer (this restores behavior
from pre 5.2.0). If you wish new ESS processes to start in
another window of the current frame, set
inferior-ess-same-window to nil.
* New variables inferior-Splus-args and inferior-R-args provide
a way to pass command line arguments to starting S and R
processes.
Changes/New Features in 5.2.2:
* bug-fixes for 5.2.1 (require 'executable), html docs, etc.
* ess-lisp-directory/../doc/info added to Info-directory-list
if ess-info not found by info
* ESS[R]: If you have other versions of R on your exec-path,
such as "R-1.8.1" with Unix or "rw1081" with Windows, ESS
will find them and create appropriate functions, such as `M-x
R-1.8.1' or `M-x rw1081', for calling them. By default only
Unix programs beginning "R-1" and "R-2" and Windows programs
parallel to the version of R in your exec-path will be found,
but see ess-r-versions and ess-rterm-versions for ways to
find other versions of R.
* ESS[R]: Other versions of R, such as "R-1.8.1" on Unix and
"rw1081" on Windows, are added to the "ESS / Start Process /
Other" menu.
* ESS[S]: If you have other versions of S-Plus on your Windows
computer, such as S-Plus 6.1 or S-Plus 4.5, ESS will find
them and create appropriate functions, such as `M-x splus61',
for calling the console version (Sqpe) inside an emacs
buffer. By default only programs installed in the default
location will be found, but see ess-SHOME-versions for ways
to find other versions of S-Plus.
* ESS[S]: Other versions of Sqpe on Windows, such as "splus61",
are added to the "ESS / Start Process / Other" menu.
* ESS[R]: (bug fix) ess-quit (bound to `C-c C-q') should now
quit the inferior R process, when issued from either the
inferior buffer, or from a .R buffer.
Changes/New Features in 5.2.1:
* ESS[S] (R and S-plus): now have toolbar support with icons to
evaluate code in the inferior process or to switch there.
This code is experimental and likely to change as XEmacs/Emacs
issues get resolved. The toolbar should be enabled if your
Emacs displays images, but can be disabled with the variable
ess-use-toolbar. Thanks to David Smith from Insightful for
the S-plus logo.
* ESS[SAS]: ess-sas-graph-view (`F12') enhanced; you can specify
external file viewers for each graphics file type via the
alist ess-sas-graph-view-viewer-alist; also .jpg/.gif are now
handled by image-mode on XEmacs, if available, otherwise by
graphics primitives as before
Changes/New Features in 5.2.0:
* ESS[BUGS]: new info documentation! now supports interactive
processing thanks to Aki Vehtari (mailto:Aki.Vehtari@hut.fi);
new architecture-independent unix support as well as support
for BUGS v. 0.5
* ESS[SAS]: convert .log to .sas with ess-sas-transcript; info
documentation improved; Local Variable bug fixes; SAS/IML
statements/functions now highlighted; files edited remotely
by ange-ftp/EFS/tramp are recognized and pressing SUBMIT
opens a buffer on the remote host via the local variable
ess-sas-shell-buffer-remote-init which defaults to "ssh";
changed the definition of the variable
ess-sas-edit-keys-toggle to boolean rather than 0/1; added
the function ess-electric-run-semicolon which automatically
reverse indents lines containing only "run;"; `C-F1' creates
MS RTF portrait from the current buffer; `C-F2' creates MS
RTF landscape from the current buffer; `C-F9' opens a SAS
DATASET with PROC INSIGHT rather than PROC FSVIEW; "inferior"
aliases for SAS batch: `C-c C-r' for submit region, `C-c
C-b' for submit buffer, `C-c C-x' for goto .log; `C-c C-y'
for goto .lst
* ESS[S]: Pressing underscore ("_") once inserts " <- " (as
before); pressing underscore twice inserts a literal
underscore. To stop this smart behaviour, add
"(ess-toggle-underscore nil)" to your .emacs after ess-site
has been loaded; ess-dump-filename-template-proto (new name!)
now can be customized successfully (for S language dialects);
Support for Imenu has been improved; set ess-imenu-use-S to
non-nil to get an "Imenu-S" item on your menubar; ess-help:
Now using nice underlines (instead of `nuke-* ^H_')
* ESS[R]: After (require 'essa-r), `M-x ess-r-var' allows to
load numbers from any Emacs buffer into an existing *R*
process; `M-x ess-rdired' gives a "directory editor" of R
objects; fixed ess-retr-lastvalue-command, i.e. .Last.value
bug (thanks to David Brahm)
* ESS: Support for creating new window frames has been added to
ESS. Inferior ESS processes can be created in dedicated
frames by setting inferior-ess-own-frame to t. ESS help
buffers can also open in new frames; see the documentation
for ess-help-own-frame for details. (Thanks to Kevin Rodgers
for contributing code.)
Changes/New Features in 5.1.24:
* The version number is now correct even inside ESS/Emacs
Changes/New Features in 5.1.23:
* Minor more Makefile clean up.
Changes/New Features in 5.1.22:
* Besides info documentation, PDF and HTML documentation are
also provided (instead of built using "make") and available
on the web as well; see ESS web page
(http://ess.r-project.org/) and StatLib
(http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/ESS/doc)
* Now that info documentation is available, the README.* files
are no longer supported. However, they are still distributed
for what it's worth.
* ESS is now an XEmacs package! See XEmacs Installation HOWTO
(http://www.xemacs.org/Install/index.html) for details
(specifically, items 10-15).
* ESS[SAS]: more user-friendly enhancements for remote SAS
batch jobs with Kermit file transfers (LOG and OUTPUT
function key features now supported). Multiple shells now
supported so you can run SAS on different computers from
different buffers by setting the buffer-local variable
ess-sas-shell-buffer to unique buffer names.
* Major re-vamping of Makefile/Makeconf.
Changes/New Features in 5.1.21:
* ESS[SAS]: info documentation now available!, see ESS->Help
for SAS; `F12' opens GSASFILE nearest point for viewing
either within emacs, when available, or via an external
viewer; more syntax highlighting keywords; more enhancements
for remote SAS batch jobs with Kermit; new framework for
remote SAS interactive jobs, see ess-remote
* ESS[S]: info documentation now available!, see ESS->Help for
the S family
* Makefile: tag now independent of rel; info files made by
doc/Makefile and installed in new info sub-directory
Changes/New Features in 5.1.20:
* New `options()$STERM' in the S dialects (S, S-Plus, R). The
S program can determine the environment in which it is
currently running. ESS sets the option to `iESS' or `ddeESS'
when it starts an S language process. We recommend other
specific values for S language processes that ESS does not
start.
* New `ess-mouse-me' function, assigned to S-mouse-3 by default.
User may click on a word or region and then choose from the
menu to display the item, or a summary, or a plot, etc. This
feature is still under development.
* GNU Emacs 21.1 is now supported (fixed for S dialects, SAS &
BUGS), (some from Stephen Eglen).
* XEmacs 21.x is now supported (fixed w32-using-nt bug)
* XEmacs on Win (NT) is better supported.
* Workaround for bug in Sqpe+6 (S-PLUS 6 for Win).
* should now work even when imenu is not available (for old
XEmacsen).
* ESS[SAS]: XEmacs-Imenu fix; `C-TAB' is globalized along with
your function-key definitions, if specified; you can specify
your SAS library definitions outside of autoexec.sas for
ess-sas-data-view with SAS code placed in the variable
ess-sas-data-view-libname, also the dataset name is defaulted
to the nearest permanent dataset to point; Speedbar support
now works for permanent datasets, please ignore first./last.;
new font-locking is now the default with more improvements
for font-locking PROCs, macro statements, * ; and %* ;
comments; you can toggle sas-log-mode with `F10' which will
font-lock your .log (if it isn't too big); submit remote .sas
files accessed with ange-ftp, EFS or Tramp (Kermit is
experimental) by setting ess-sas-submit-method to 'sh;
ess-sas-submit-command and ess-sas-submit-command-options are
buffer-local so you can have local file variable sections at
the end of your .sas files to request different executables
or specify special options and the local file variables are
re-read at submit instead of only at file open so that if you
make a change it is picked up immediately;
* ESS[BUGS]: font-lock with `in' fixed.
* for STATA: font-lock bug fixed.
* for Rd mode: `C-c C-v' and `switch-process' in menu.
further, `C-c C-f' prefix (Rd-font) for inserting or
surrounding a word by things such as \code{.},
\code{\link{.}}, \emph{.} etc.
* new functions (ess-directory-function) and
(ess-narrow-to-defun) ess-directory <-> default-directory
logic (Jeff Mincy).
* Re-organized Makefile and fixed a few bugs.
Changes/New Features in 5.1.19:
* S+6 now supported (Tony Rossini (Unix) and Rich Heiberger
(Windows))
* New BUGS support through ESS[BUGS] mode (Rodney Sparapani)
Templates assist you in writing .bug and .cmd code (.cmd and
.log are replaced by .bmd and .bog to avoid emacs extension
collisions). Substitution" parameters facilitate "automagic"
generation of data...in" and "init...in" filenames, "const
N=" from your data file and "monitor()/stats()" commands.
Activated by pressing `F12'.
* Fixes for `ess-smart-underscore' SAS breakage (Rich Heiberger)
* You can change between PC and Unix, local and global SAS
function-key definitions interactively (Rich Heiberger)
* `C-Submit' a highlighted region to SAS batch (Rodney
Sparapani)
* New and improved SAS syntax highlighting (Rodney Sparapani)
To get the new functionality, set ess-sas-run-make-regexp to
nil. Also available in .log files via `F10'.
* Open a permanent SAS dataset for viewing via `F9' (Rodney
Sparapani) You must have the library defined in autoexec.sas
for it to work.
* User-friendly defaults for `sas-program',
`ess-sas-batch-pre-command' and `ess-sas-batch-post-command'
as well Customize support for these and other ESS[SAS]
variables (Rodney Sparapani)
* `ess-sas-suffix-2' now defaults to .dat via `F11' (Rodney
Sparapani)
* Emacs/XEmacs, Unix/Windows issues collectively handled in
ess-emcs.el
* defadvice solves problem of missing *ESS* (thanks to Jeff
Mincy)
* Improved manual a bit by including things that were only in
`README'.
Changes/New Features in 5.1.18:
* New `ess-smart-underscore' function, now assigned to "_" by
default. Inserts `ess-S-assign' (customizable " <- "),
unless inside string and comments where plain "_" is used
instead. (MM)
* Fixes for longstanding interactive SAS breakage (RMH)
Changes/New Features in 5.1.17:
* Documentation for Windows Installation (Rich Heiberger)
* removal of ess-vars, finalization of customize support (in the
sense that there is no more use of ess-vars, but that we need
to fix ess-cust) (AJ Rossini)
* Many small (and large) fixes/contributions (MMaechler)
* addition of the "S-equal" variable and provide `M-x
ess-add-MM-keys' a way to remap "_" to `ess-S-assign',
typically " <- ", but customizable. (MMaechler)
Changes/New Features in 5.1.16:
* BUG FIXES
* Better SAS support
Changes/New Features in 5.1.15:
* BUG FIXES
Changes/New Features in 5.1.14:
* Yet more fixes to SAS mode, (Rich Heiberger and Rodney
Sparapani)
* Customize support (for most Emacsen which support it)
(AJRossini)
* ARC and ViSta support out of the box, and fixes for XLispStat
(AJRossini)
Changes/New Features in 5.1.13:
* Version numbering finally all depending on the ./VERSION file,
thanks to Martin Maechler.
* Yet more fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rich Heiberger.
Changes/New Features in 5.1.12:
* Splus 5.1 stabilized, thanks to Martin Maechler, Bill
Venables, Chuck Taylor, and others.
* More fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rodney Sparapani and Rich
Heiberger.
Changes/New Features in 5.1.11:
* More fixes to Stata mode, thanks to Brendan Halpin
(mailto:brendan@essex.ac.uk).
* fixed bugs in ESS-elsewhere, thanks to many testers
* README.SPLUS4WIN has DETAILED instructions for S-PLUS 2000,
thanks to David Brahm (mailto:brahm@alum.mit.edu).
* Fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rodney Sparapani
Changes/New Features in 5.1.10:
* More fixes to Stata mode
* primitive generic version of ESS-elsewhere
* Small fixes to SAS/Stata.
Changes/New Features in 5.1.9:
* Stata mode works
* Literate Data Analysis using Noweb works
Changes/New Features in 5.1.8:
* Bug fixes
* R documentation mode defaults changed
Changes/New Features in 5.1.2:
* able to use inferior iESS mode to communicate directly with a
running S-Plus 4.x process using the Microsoft DDE protocol.
We use the familiar (from Unix ESS) `C-c C-n' and related key
sequences to send lines from the S-mode file to the inferior
S process. We continue to edit S input files in ESS[S] mode
and transcripts of previous S sessions in ESS Transcript
mode. All three modes know the S language, syntax, and
indentation patterns and provide the syntactic highlighting
that eases the programming tasks.