User manual

Chapter 1: Introduction to ESS 5

• ESS[R]: ﬁxed "empty watch window bug"

• ESS[R]: don’t ask for help location on ac-quick-help (request of github #81)

• ESS[R]: "importClassesFrom" and "importMethodsFrom" were added to the list of

two-parameter roxygen commands

• ESS[R]: ﬁx vignetes display and hyperlinks (were broken in 13.09-1)

• ESS[Julia]: recognize function names ending with !

• ESS[Julia]: ﬁx indentation of "for" comprehension syntax within brackets.

Changes / Selected Bug Fixes in 13.09-1:

• ess-remote and TRAMP: R support code is now downloaded in binary form instead of

being injected from local machine. The R code is stored in ~/.config/ESSR/ directory

on the remote machine

• TRAMP: PAGER environment variable is now correctly set to inferior-ess-pager

• retrieval of help topics on remote machines is ﬁxed

• org-babel: source references of R code executed from org ﬁles correctly point to source

references in original org ﬁles (version 8.2.1 or higher of org-mode is required for this

feature)

• ess-execute is now bound to C-c C-e C-e in ess-extra-map.

• completion works again in ess-execute

• ESS[R]: head and tail methods were replaced by htsummary in ess-R-describe-

object-at-point-commands

• ESS[roxygen]: evaluation commands now work in roxygen blocks. Leading comments

are automatically removed before the evaluation

• ESS[transcript]: ’Clean Region’ now works with multiline statements; ess-transcript-

clean-region etc. correctly treat multiline statements, i.e., no longer forgets the lines

typically preceded by ’+’

• ESS[SAS]: Three features/ﬁxes with special thanks to Matthew Fidler

https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/pulls/mlf176f2. Turn on SAS log mode when

appropriate. Indent comments and CARDS statement more appropriately.

• ESS[SAS]: ess-sas-edit-keys-toggle default returns to nil

• ESS[R]: support for prettify-symbols-mode: contribution from Rudiger Sonderfeld

https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/pull/65

• ESS[SWV]: knitr now evaluates in the current frame

• ESS[developer]: ess-developer doesn’t kill open DESCRIPTION ﬁles anymore

• ESS[roxygen]: ess-roxy-preview-HTML is now on C-c C-o C-w and ess-roxy-

preview-text is now on C-c C-o C-t

• ESS: installation with make install was simpliﬁed and should work out of the box on

most *nix systems

• ESS installation instructions simpliﬁed

• ﬁxed font-lock bug introduced in 13.09 that was causing very slow process output

Changes/New Features in 13.09: