User manual
Chapter 1: Introduction to ESS 4
• ESS[R]: Detect library and require calls for better completion caching.
• Buffer display is now customizable (ess-show-buffer-action).
• Use y-or-n-p instead of yes-or-no-p throughout.
• More support for ODS in ess-sas-graph-view.
• Makefiles are now both UNIX and GNU friendly.
• ESS[R]: Simplify directory lookup in ess-developer (#137).
• Make closed paren indentation consistent
Bug Fixes in 15.03:
• Fix open brace indentation bug (#27 in ess/R-ESS-bugs.R).
• Fix git version lookup
• Don’t check directory modtime in R dialect.
• Declare all ess macros for edebug.
• Add ess-smart-comma to eldoc message functions.
• Inform users when retrieving RDA aliases.
• Line ending in ’~’ is also a continuation line.
• Filing roxy paragraphs works as expected now.
• In ess-developer-add-package, remove incorrect ‘wait‘ argument from ess-get-
words-from-vector call.
• Fix #96, #117, #120, #125, #134, #137.
• Fix ess-quit-r. Call base::q() even if it is masked.
• Fix ‘ess-show-buffer‘ to always display the buffer in another window.
• Makefile: Fix cd bug for directories with spaces in them
• ess-kill-buffer-and-go modified to not restart R
Changes / Selected Bug Fixes in 14.09:
• ESS[Julia]: Executable is changed to julia.
• ESS[Julia]: Completion and help system was adjusted to Julia v.0.3.0. Julia v.0.2.x is
no more supported.
• ESS[R]: Running R with gdb debugger now works as expected
• iESS: Inferior ESS buffers are now derived from comint-mode
• ESS[R]: ess-execute-screen-options uses correct screen width in terminal sessions
• ESS: ess-build-tags-for-directory works when no TAGS file name was provided
• ESS: ess-continued-statement-offset is now respected everywhere except inside of
the if test condition.
• ESS: New variable ess-first-continued-statement-offset for indentation of the
first line in multiline statements.
• ESSR: Starting , in multiline statements indentation is now ignored to achieve a more
pleasant alignment.
• ESSR: Improved behavior of RET in roxygen blocks.
• ESS[R]: command cleaning with C-u C-u C-y was broken with lines containing " + "










