Changes/New Features in 5.14:
* ESS[BUGS/JAGS]: Batch BUGS is back! For recent OpenBUGS versions,
3.0.8+, a batch BUGS script is once again available, but for Linux
only. Therefore, since it seems that BUGS and JAGS must co-exist
(rather than a transition from BUGS to JAGS), .bug files are now in
ESS[BUGS] mode and .jag files are in ESS[JAGS] mode. ESS[BUGS] now
works like ESS[JAGS] rather than the original mode ESS[BUGS] mode
which was difficult to maintain. Although, ESS[BUGS] appears to
work, there still may be some features missing as well as bugs.
* ESS[R]: New customizable variable 'ess-swv-plug-into-AUCTeX-p'
Commands to Sweave current file and LaTeX the result are now
available to AUCTeX users, if this variable is set to 't'.
* ESS[S]: 'C-c C-c' ('ess-eval-function-or-paragraph-and-step') is
now skipping over comments as the other paragraph functions do. It
(and similar functions) should no longer wrongly find 'function()'
beginnings inside comments or strings.
* ESS[SAS]: improved by better support for GNU Emacs
Changes/New Features in 5.13:
* ESS[R]: On Windows, for R 2.12.0 and later, the Rterm executables
(in subdirectories i386 / x64) now are found as well as for earlier
R versions.
* ESS[S+]: on Windows, both 32- and 64-bit versions of S+ ("S-PLUS")
are found now and made available on the menu.
* ESS[R]: When prompting for a starting directory, the R version is
(always?) correct now.
* ESS[R]: on non-Windows platforms, the 'use-dialog-box' variable is
no longer temporarily changed (to 'nil' for R-x.y.z version
functions and to 't' for 'R' itself), but rather the user
customization is obeyed.
* ESS[R]: more Roxygen improvements.
* 'Rd-preview-help' now generates preview buffers with navigation
facilities the same as regular help buffers.
* ESS: New functions and keys C-c [up] / [down] for evaluating the
buffer "from beginning till here".
Changes/New Features in 5.12:
* ESS[SAS] Font-locking: update of PROCs keywords (up to SAS 9.22);
error/warnings.
* ESS[R]: Roxygen improvements: S4 classes; also optionally keep
spaces when filling arguments
* ESS[Rd]: support new keywords: section-name \subsection plus a
dozen "new" keywords; should match R 2.12.x now.
* 'ess-display-help-on-object' ('C-c C-v') now _caches_ the list of
topics, thus speeding up the improvement feature introduced in 5.9.
Changes/New Features in 5.11:
* Filename completion within buffers now adds only trailing
characters to complete the filename, rather than expanding to an
absolute file path. This filename completion is bound to the TAB
key.
* 'M-n P' in Sweave buffers now prompts for the command to run
instead of using 'pdflatex' unconditionally, offering completion
from customizable collection 'ess-swv-pdflatex-commands', the first
of which is taken as default and that defaults to 'texi2pdf'.
* 'M-RET' is now also bound in S language (R and S+) buffers to
'ess-use-this-dir'. It sends 'setwd(..)' to the S process to set
the working directory to the one of the source file.
Changes/New Features in 5.10:
* 'M-RET' in *S* buffers is now bound to 'ess-dirs'. This function
will set Emacs's current directory to be the same as the *S*
process. This is useful if you use 'setwd()' within a *S* process.
Changes/New Features in 5.9:
* Toolbar: The toolbar now has an icon for starting Splus.
* Indentation: New documentation and code has been added to make it
easier to change how ESS indents code. In particular, see
'ess-default-style', 'ess-own-style-list' and the documention
subsection "Changing indentation styles".
* 'ess-display-help-on-object' ('C-c C-v') now offers completion
candidates for help file aliases, in addition to object names.
* Font locking: is now turned on even without 'window-system' is
'nil', whenever ESS-FONT-LOCK-MODE is non-nil, i.e., by default.
* ESS script editing: ess-eval-deactivate-mark default is now t, as
suggested by Leo Alekseyev and subsequent "unanimous" ESS-help
discussion.
* ESS[R]: Editing support for "#!" (Rscript / littler) editing,
thanks to Jeffrey Arnold.
* ESS[R]: Now finds all R versions, both 64-bit and 32-bit, on some
64-bit Windows machines. Please report back to ess-core success or
failure on your 64-bit Windows machine.
* ESS Manual now more visually pleasing;
<http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html>
* ESS[R]: Roxygen on XEmacs no longer font locks for now (as it
required missing features and hence broke ESS startup, there).
* ESS[R]: Roxygen has a sub-menu on the [ESS] menu.
* ESS[R]: Function 'ess-rutils-htmldocs' in 'ess-rutils.el' offers an
alternative to 'help.start()' for navigating R documentation, using
the 'browse-url' Emacs function.
Changes/New Features in 5.8:
* ESS[R]: New 'ess-rutils.el' with utilities for listing, loading,
installing, and updating packages, as well as object manipulation
(listing, viewing, and deleting). It also provides an alternative
to 'RSiteSearch()' that uses the 'browse-url' function, so results
can be viewed in an Emacs web browser.
* ESS[R]: much more extensive Roxygen interface, via ess-roxy.el from
Henning Redestig. Ess-roxy supports filling of roxygen fields,
generation and updating roxygen templates, completion of roxygen
tags, basic navigation (marking and moving between entries),
folding using hs-minor-mode and preview of the Rd file.
* Emacs lisp files have got better names (partly, for now).
Changes/New Features in 5.7:
* ESS[R]: loading a source file ('C-c C-l') now works in Windows,
similarly to other platforms; (further; it had accidentally been
broken in ESS 5.6 on all platforms)
Changes/New Features in 5.6:
* ESS[R]: help() calls have to differ from old default, with newer
versions of R; currently via .help.ESS <- function(...) hack.
Changes/New Features in 5.4:
* ESS[SAS]: The long overdue change from 'make-regexp' to
'regexp-opt' for font-locking is complete. The new 'regexp-opt' is
now the default since it is better than the old code in many ways
(and especially more maintainable). However, there are certainly
some special cases missed (bug reports and patches welcome!).
Setting 'ess-sas-run-regexp-opt' to 'nil' will result in the old
code being used.
* ESS[BUGS] and ESS[JAGS]: typing '=' now results in '<-'.
* ESS[R] function arguments "show" '(ess-r-args-show)' now uses the
new '(tooltip-show-at-point)' contributed by Erik Iverson.
* Toolbar icons now also work in (beta) Emacs 23.
* ESS[S]: New function 'ess-change-directory' for setting both emacs'
current directory and the directory of an *R* or *S* buffer.
* ESS[S] when transient-mark-mode is true, the mark is now kept,
rather than deactivated, thanks to a patch from David Reitter.
Changes/New Features in 5.3.11:
* ESS[SAS]: work around bug 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:[email protected]); 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:[email protected]).
* fixed bugs in ESS-elsewhere, thanks to many testers
* README.SPLUS4WIN has DETAILED instructions for S-PLUS 2000, thanks
to David Brahm (mailto:[email protected]).
* 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.
