4 The ESS Developers proudly announce the release of ESS
8 Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) provides an intelligent, consistent
9 interface between the user and the software. ESS interfaces with
10 S-PLUS, R, SAS, BUGS and other statistical analysis packages under the
11 Unix, Microsoft Windows, and Apple Mac OS operating systems. ESS is a
12 package for the GNU Emacs and XEmacs text editors whose features ESS
13 uses to streamline the creation and use of statistical software. ESS
14 knows the syntax and grammar of statistical analysis packages and
15 provides consistent display and editing features based on that
16 knowledge. ESS assists in interactive and batch execution of
17 statements written in these statistical analysis languages.
19 ESS is freely available under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
20 Please read the file COPYING which comes with the distribution, for
21 more information about the license. For more detailed information,
22 please read the README files that come with ESS.
24 1.1 Getting the Latest Version
25 ==============================
27 The latest released version of ESS is always available on the web at:
28 ESS web page (http://ess.r-project.org) or StatLib
29 (http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/ESS/)
31 The latest development version of ESS is available via
32 `https://svn.R-project.org/ESS/', the ESS Subversion repository. If
33 you have a Subversion client (see `http://subversion.tigris.org/'), you
34 can download the sources using:
35 % svn checkout https://svn.r-project.org/ESS/trunk PATH
36 which will put the ESS files into directory PATH. Later, within
37 that directory, `svn update' will bring that directory up to date.
38 Windows-based tools such as TortoiseSVN are also available for
39 downloading the files. Alternatively, you can browse the sources with a
40 web browser at: ESS SVN site (https://svn.r-project.org/ESS/trunk).
41 However, please use a subversion client instead to minimize the load
44 If you remove other versions of ESS from your emacs load-path, you
45 can then use the development version by adding the following to .emacs:
47 (load "/path/to/ess-svn/lisp/ess-site.el")
49 Note that https is required, and that the SSL certificate for the
50 Subversion server of the R project is
52 Certificate information:
53 - Hostname: svn.r-project.org
54 - Valid: from Jul 16 08:10:01 2004 GMT until Jul 14 08:10:01 2014 GMT
55 - Issuer: Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, CH
56 - Fingerprint: c9:5d:eb:f9:f2:56:d1:04:ba:44:61:f8:64:6b:d9:33:3f:93:6e:ad
58 (currently, there is no "trusted certificate"). You can accept this
59 certificate permanently and will not be asked about it anymore.
64 * Languages Supported:
65 * S family (S 3/4, S-PLUS 3.x/4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x, and R)
73 * XLispStat including Arc and ViSta
75 * Editing source code (S family, SAS, BUGS/JAGS, XLispStat)
76 * Syntactic indentation and highlighting of source code
78 * Partial evaluation of code
80 * Loading and error-checking of code
82 * Source code revision maintenance
84 * Batch execution (SAS, BUGS/JAGS)
86 * Use of imenu to provide links to appropriate functions
88 * Interacting with the process (S family, SAS, XLispStat)
89 * Command-line editing
91 * Searchable Command history
93 * Command-line completion of S family object names and file
96 * Quick access to object lists and search lists
98 * Transcript recording
100 * Interface to the help system
102 * Transcript manipulation (S family, XLispStat)
103 * Recording and saving transcript files
105 * Manipulating and editing saved transcripts
107 * Re-evaluating commands from transcript files
109 * Help File Editing (R)
110 * Syntactic indentation and highlighting of source code.
112 * Sending Examples to running ESS process.
119 ESS has been tested with
123 * S-PLUS 3.3-4, 4.5, 2000, 5.0-1, 6.0-2, 7.0, 8.0
137 on the following platforms
143 * Microsoft Windows 98/NT/2000/XP (R, SPLUS 4.5/2000/6.0-2/7.0/8.0,
146 * Apple Mac OS X 10.3-4 (R, JAGS)
148 with the following versions of emacs
150 * GNU Emacs 20.3-7, 21.1, 21.3-4, 22.0.50-pretesting
152 * XEmacs 21.4.0-8, 21.4.9-13(1), 21.4.14-15, 21.4.17-19, 21.5.23
154 ---------- Footnotes ----------
156 (1) require the files.el patch to revert-buffer for the Local
157 Variables updating problem
162 Versions 5.3.x are meant to be release-quality versions. While some
163 new features are being introduced, we are cleaning up and improving the
164 interface. We know about some remaining documentation inconsistencies.
165 Patches or suggested fixes with bug reports are much appreciated!
170 There is a mailing list for discussions and announcements relating to
171 ESS. Join the list by sending an e-mail with "subscribe ess-help" (or
172 "help") in the body to <ess-help-request@stat.math.ethz.ch>;
173 contributions to the list may be mailed to
174 <ess-help@stat.math.ethz.ch>. Rest assured, this is a fairly
175 low-volume mailing list.
177 The purposes of the mailing list include
179 * helping users of ESS to get along with it.
181 * discussing aspects of using ESS on Emacs and XEmacs.
183 * suggestions for improvements.
185 * announcements of new releases of ESS.
187 * posting small patches to ESS.
192 Please send bug reports, suggestions etc. to
193 <ESS-bugs@stat.math.ethz.ch>
195 The easiest way to do this is within Emacs by typing
197 `M-x ess-submit-bug-report'
199 This also gives the maintainers valuable information about your
200 installation which may help us to identify or even fix the bug.
202 If Emacs reports an error, backtraces can help us debug the problem.
203 Type "M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET". Then run the
204 command that causes the error and you should see a *Backtrace* buffer
205 containing debug information; send us that buffer.
207 Note that comments, suggestions, words of praise and large cash
208 donations are also more than welcome.
213 * A.J. Rossini (mailto:blindglobe@gmail.com)
215 * Richard M. Heiberger (mailto:rmh@temple.edu)
217 * Kurt Hornik (mailto:Kurt.Hornik@R-project.org)
219 * Martin Maechler (mailto:maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch)
221 * Rodney A. Sparapani (mailto:rsparapa@mcw.edu)
223 * Stephen Eglen (mailto:stephen@gnu.org)
228 ESS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
229 the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
230 Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
233 ESS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
234 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
235 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
236 in the file COPYING in the same directory as this file for more details.
241 Changes/New Features in 5.3.3:
242 * ESS[S] fix buglet (5.3.2 only) which left command prompt in
243 "execute buffer" and hence help files.
245 * new customizable variable `ess-display-buffer-reuse-frames' set to
246 true (which changes default behavior) such that execution or help
249 Changes/New Features in 5.3.2:
250 * Classic BUGS now supported by `(require 'essd-bugs)' with ESS[BUGS]
251 and JAGS by `(require 'essd-jags)' with ESS[JAGS]. But,
252 only one of them can be used at a time since they don't play
253 nice together. Also, `C-c C-c' is now bound to the function
254 `ess-bugs-next-action' (`F12' has been retired). And
255 finally, note that `essl-bug.el' is deprecated and the
256 replacement is `essl-bugs.el'.
258 * ESS[R] Improved some of the "Sweave-make" functions (yet scarcely
259 documented) in `ess-swv.el'.
261 * ESS[S] No longer mess with .Last.value (nor in other "languages").
263 Changes/New Features in 5.3.1:
264 * See the docs for 2 ways to install ESS for XEmacs
265 1. by uncommenting the XEmacs part of Section 1 of
266 `Makeconf' and performing `make install'
268 2. by unpacking either `ess-5.3.1.tgz' or
270 `PREFIX/lib/xemacs/site-packages' on unix or
271 `PREFIX\XEmacs\site-packages' on windows
273 * ESS[R]: fixed bugs so that Rterm.exe can be found by XEmacs
275 * ESS[S]: `ess-toggle-S-assign-key' is slightly changed; in
276 particular, the default `ess-assign-key' is now `C-x ='.
278 * ESS[R]: `M-x R-site-search' is a new (slightly experimental)
279 utility similar to R's `RSiteSearch(..)' but with the advantage of
280 using Emacs' preferred browser, see `browse-url-browser-function'
282 Changes/New Features in 5.3.0:
283 * ESS[BUGS]: sanely re-format statistical output, `.bog', from
284 scientific notation to numbers rounded with 4 decimal places with
285 `M-x ess-bugs-sci-round-to-4-dp'.
287 * The keys for navigating among section headings in help buffers
288 worked, but only for one language per session; they should now
289 work for multiple languages. (They were also broken on Windows
292 * ESS[S] long standing buglets in the internal logic for loading
293 lisp code on Windows. Particularly fixed behavior in help mode
296 * New variable, `ess-use-inferior-program-name-in-buffer-name',
297 which enables using the executable name instead of the dialect
298 name for R. Feature request.
300 * ESS[S] `ess-execute-screen-options' now also works correctly when
301 there is more than one window *side-by-side* in the same frame and
302 runs in the correct buffer also when there is more than one S
305 * iESS[S] new functions `ess-eval-paragraph-and-step' and
306 `ess-eval-function-or-paragraph-and-step' are bound to keys `C-c
307 C-p' and `C-c C-c' respectively and to the menu in ESS-mode; also
308 bound in the help mode (for evaluating examples).
310 * ESS[S] new function `ess-toggle-S-assign-key' allows to assign the
311 " <- " insertion to an arbitrary key.
313 Changes/New Features in 5.2.12:
314 * ESS[SAS]: `M-;' fixed, but the XEmacs function `comment-dwim' may
315 be broken, if so, use `M-x comment-region' and `M-x
316 uncomment-region' instead; only valid PROCs are fontified which is
317 very helpful finding syntax errors (currently supported: BASE,
318 ETS, FSP, GRAPH, IML, INSIGHT and STAT); the "feature" where
319 `F'-keys take you to an empty buffer when the requested
320 destination is a file that does not exist has been fixed, now the
321 request results in a no-op. Further, sas-mode now also works in
324 * Rterm/Cygwin combination works under Microsoft Windows.
326 * ESS[R]: internal calls use baseenv() instead of NULL and define
327 'baseenv' where needed.
329 * New experimental support for installing ESS. See the file
330 `lisp/ess-install.el'.
332 Changes/New Features in 5.2.11:
333 * ESS Info entry and `dir' handled more effectively for GNU Emacs
336 * ESS[SAS]: temporary files created for batch submission of a region
337 are now named based on the current file; see `ess-sas-file-root'
338 for details; all `lag' and `dif' functions now fontified correctly
340 * iESS[SAS]: fixed a few nagging bugs, however, still does not
341 appear to work at this time; please let us know if you have any
344 * ESS[S]: Support for running other versions of Splus has been added
345 for unix. Two new variables, `ess-s-versions' and
346 `ess-s-versions-list', are used to tell ESS what other versions of
347 Splus you would like to run.
349 Changes/New Features in 5.2.10:
350 * ESS[R]: ess-r-versions can no longer be customized (since the
351 customization was not taking effect unless customizations were
352 loaded before ESS). Its value has been changed so that it will
353 also find R executables beginning "R-devel" and "R-patched". If
354 you wish to change this variable, it must be set in your `.emacs'
355 before ESS is loaded.
357 * Installation with GNU Make enhanced: unix and unix-like operating
358 systems will now be able to install ESS for all users in either a
359 GNU Emacs site-lisp or an XEmacs package configuration by editing
360 `lisp/ess-site.el' and `Makeconf' accordingly, then issuing `make
363 * ESS[S]: Filename completion (inside strings) now also works in
364 XEmacs for R and S-plus.
366 Changes/New Features in 5.2.9:
367 * ESS[R] for Windows: the \ directory character bug with respect to
368 ess-load-file has been eradicated.
370 * iESS[SAS]: `C-c C-r' and `C-c C-b' once again work as intended and
373 * ESS[S]: M-x ess-fix-EQ-assign is a bit more agressive.
375 * ESS[S]: Imenu now also shows setAs(), etc.
377 * ESS[R]: R function pattern enhanced with underlying code such that
378 `M-C-a' (`ess-beginning-of-function') etc now work for many more
379 cases, including S4 method definitions.
381 * iESS[R]: myOwnhelp(1) no longer wrongly triggers help(1).
383 * ESS[R]: Improved detection of bogus help buffers: valid help
384 buffers containing with the string "no documentation"(e.g. contour)
385 were being treated as bogus.
387 * ESS[R]: In R help buffers, if `options("help.try.all.packages" =
388 TRUE)' then `?rlm' will list which packages rlm is defined in.
389 This help buffer is not bogus, but instead is now relabelled
390 "*help[R](rlm in packages)*".
392 * ESS[STA]: add "//" as comment starting character to syntax-table.
394 Changes/New Features in 5.2.8:
395 * iESS: [Tab] completes *file* names "inside string" as in earlier
396 (<= 5.2.3) ESS versions.
398 Changes/New Features in 5.2.7:
399 * If you use Custom to change the variable ess-toolbar-items, the
400 new toolbar is used in all subsequent ESS buffers.
402 * ESS[SAS]: new feature: if ess-sas-log-max >0 and your .log grows
403 to more than ess-sas-log-max bytes, just the first ess-sas-log-max
404 bytes are refreshed; this is helpful when your .sas program
405 generates lots of error messages and gets too big for emacs to
408 * ESS[R/S]: `M-;' in R/S editing modes will now indent with either
409 one or two hashes depending on context.
411 * ESS[R]: David Whiting's Sweave extensions (to 'noweb') are now
412 available (from ess-swv.el loaded by default).
414 Changes/New Features in 5.2.6:
415 * Removed non-ASCII characters in a few files.
417 * ESS[R]: now works better when UTF-8 locale is active; in
418 particular, you get correct directional quotes in R's startup
419 message for R-devel (unstable development version of R 2.1.0)
420 when using environment variables LANGUAGE=en@quot
423 * ESS[SAS]: toggling of .log mode improved (`F10'); toggling of .lst
424 mode now also available (`C-F10'); killing all buffers associated
425 with .sas program no longer bound to `C-F10' since its a bit
428 * S-Plus 7 for Windows is now recognized.
430 * ESS[S] (incl. R): in auto-fill mode, strings are not wrapped
433 * ESS[S] (incl. R): font-lock now correctly differs between R and S,
434 e.g., for "_"; both now fontify warning(.) and S does terminate()
437 * Support for `bell' aka `beep' aka `ding' aka `alarm' in all
438 inferior modes: When \a is output "to the the console" at the
439 beginning of a line, the bell is rung.
441 Changes/New Features in 5.2.5:
442 * ESS[R]: `C-c C-q' or `Quit S' from the menu now should work (again
443 and less klunkily) and do not append `-exited' to the buffer name.
444 Further, the behavior of `(ess-cleanup)', called from ess-quit,
445 now depends on the new customizable variable
446 `ess-S-quit-kill-buffers-p' which defaults to `nil'.
447 Consequently, the question _"Delete all buffers associated with
448 ..?"_ will not be asked anymore by default.
450 * ESS[SAS] - ess-ebcdic-to-ascii-search-and-replace will now work
451 with the `recode' application as well which is available on many
454 * ESS[S] (incl. R): Name completion for slots of S4 objects now
457 Changes/New Features in 5.2.4:
458 * The documentation now includes an overview of how to use the emacs
459 TAGS facility for S functions. (The distribution also used to
460 contain a directory `etc/other/Tags' where a ~1990 version of
461 `etags.c' was distributed; this is no longer relevant and so has
464 * ESS[SAS] - When you are working with EBCDIC files on an ASCII
465 platform, .log NOTEs may display as gibberish since the EBCDIC
466 characters are not converted to ASCII prior to their display. So,
467 the function ess-ebcdic-to-ascii-search-and-replace is provided for
468 convenience and is bound to `C-F11'. This function requires the
469 `dd' command (only available on unix or unix-like platforms).
471 * ESS: Completion of object names is now always done dynamically
472 rather than allowing the option of using a pre-computed database
473 (by `ess-create-object-name-db') since modern computers seem fast
474 enough for dynamic completion. (We expect few users, if any, have
475 been using the pre-computed database method.)
477 * ESS: object completion in iESS buffers running on Windows was very
478 slow (for GNU Emacs, but not XEmacs) and has now been fixed.
479 Further, it was more or less broken for all versions of S-plus 6.x,
480 and has been fixed to work everywhere but with the Windows' GUI of
481 S-plus. The list of objects now shows unique names also when an
482 object appears more than once in the search path.
484 * ESS[R]: Completion of object names now also includes those
487 Changes/New Features in 5.2.3:
488 * ESS: When new inferior ESS processes are created, by default they
489 will replace the current buffer (this restores behavior from pre
490 5.2.0). If you wish new ESS processes to start in another window
491 of the current frame, set inferior-ess-same-window to nil.
493 * New variables inferior-Splus-args and inferior-R-args provide a
494 way to pass command line arguments to starting S and R processes.
496 Changes/New Features in 5.2.2:
497 * bug-fixes for 5.2.1 (require 'executable), html docs, etc.
499 * ess-lisp-directory/../doc/info added to Info-directory-list if
500 ess-info not found by info
502 * ESS[R]: If you have other versions of R on your exec-path, such as
503 "R-1.8.1" with Unix or "rw1081" with Windows, ESS will find them
504 and create appropriate functions, such as `M-x R-1.8.1' or `M-x
505 rw1081', for calling them. By default only Unix programs
506 beginning "R-1" and "R-2" and Windows programs parallel to the
507 version of R in your exec-path will be found, but see
508 ess-r-versions and ess-rterm-versions for ways to find other
511 * ESS[R]: Other versions of R, such as "R-1.8.1" on Unix and
512 "rw1081" on Windows, are added to the "ESS / Start Process /
515 * ESS[S]: If you have other versions of S-Plus on your Windows
516 computer, such as S-Plus 6.1 or S-Plus 4.5, ESS will find them and
517 create appropriate functions, such as `M-x splus61', for calling
518 the console version (Sqpe) inside an emacs buffer. By default only
519 programs installed in the default location will be found, but see
520 ess-SHOME-versions for ways to find other versions of S-Plus.
522 * ESS[S]: Other versions of Sqpe on Windows, such as "splus61", are
523 added to the "ESS / Start Process / Other" menu.
525 * ESS[R]: (bug fix) ess-quit (bound to `C-c C-q') should now quit the
526 inferior R process, when issued from either the inferior buffer,
529 Changes/New Features in 5.2.1:
530 * ESS[S] (R and S-plus): now have toolbar support with icons to
531 evaluate code in the inferior process or to switch there. This
532 code is experimental and likely to change as XEmacs/Emacs issues
533 get resolved. The toolbar should be enabled if your Emacs displays
534 images, but can be disabled with the variable ess-use-toolbar.
535 Thanks to David Smith from Insightful for the S-plus logo.
537 * ESS[SAS]: ess-sas-graph-view (`F12') enhanced; you can specify
538 external file viewers for each graphics file type via the alist
539 ess-sas-graph-view-viewer-alist; also .jpg/.gif are now handled by
540 image-mode on XEmacs, if available, otherwise by graphics
543 Changes/New Features in 5.2.0:
544 * ESS[BUGS]: new info documentation! now supports interactive
545 processing thanks to Aki Vehtari (mailto:Aki.Vehtari@hut.fi); new
546 architecture-independent unix support as well as support for BUGS
549 * ESS[SAS]: convert .log to .sas with ess-sas-transcript; info
550 documentation improved; Local Variable bug fixes; SAS/IML
551 statements/functions now highlighted; files edited remotely by
552 ange-ftp/EFS/tramp are recognized and pressing SUBMIT opens a
553 buffer on the remote host via the local variable
554 ess-sas-shell-buffer-remote-init which defaults to "ssh"; changed
555 the definition of the variable ess-sas-edit-keys-toggle to boolean
556 rather than 0/1; added the function ess-electric-run-semicolon
557 which automatically reverse indents lines containing only "run;";
558 `C-F1' creates MS RTF portrait from the current buffer; `C-F2'
559 creates MS RTF landscape from the current buffer; `C-F9' opens a
560 SAS DATASET with PROC INSIGHT rather than PROC FSVIEW; "inferior"
561 aliases for SAS batch: `C-c C-r' for submit region, `C-c C-b' for
562 submit buffer, `C-c C-x' for goto .log; `C-c C-y' for goto .lst
564 * ESS[S]: Pressing underscore ("_") once inserts " <- " (as before);
565 pressing underscore twice inserts a literal underscore. To stop
566 this smart behaviour, add "(ess-toggle-underscore nil)" to your
567 .emacs after ess-site has been loaded;
568 ess-dump-filename-template-proto (new name!) now can be customized
569 successfully (for S language dialects); Support for Imenu has been
570 improved; set ess-imenu-use-S to non-nil to get an "Imenu-S" item
571 on your menubar; ess-help: Now using nice underlines (instead of
574 * ESS[R]: After (require 'essa-r), `M-x ess-r-var' allows to load
575 numbers from any Emacs buffer into an existing *R* process; `M-x
576 ess-rdired' gives a "directory editor" of R objects; fixed
577 ess-retr-lastvalue-command, i.e. .Last.value bug (thanks to David
580 * ESS: Support for creating new window frames has been added to ESS.
581 Inferior ESS processes can be created in dedicated frames by
582 setting inferior-ess-own-frame to t. ESS help buffers can also
583 open in new frames; see the documentation for ess-help-own-frame
584 for details. (Thanks to Kevin Rodgers for contributing code.)
586 Changes/New Features in 5.1.24:
587 * The version number is now correct even inside ESS/Emacs
589 Changes/New Features in 5.1.23:
590 * Minor more Makefile clean up.
592 Changes/New Features in 5.1.22:
593 * Besides info documentation, PDF and HTML documentation are also
594 provided (instead of built using "make") and available on the web
595 as well; see ESS web page (http://ess.r-project.org/) and StatLib
596 (http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/ESS/doc)
598 * Now that info documentation is available, the README.* files are
599 no longer supported. However, they are still distributed for what
602 * ESS is now an XEmacs package! See XEmacs Installation HOWTO
603 (http://www.xemacs.org/Install/index.html) for details
604 (specifically, items 10-15).
606 * ESS[SAS]: more user-friendly enhancements for remote SAS batch
607 jobs with Kermit file transfers (LOG and OUTPUT function key
608 features now supported). Multiple shells now supported so you can
609 run SAS on different computers from different buffers by setting
610 the buffer-local variable ess-sas-shell-buffer to unique buffer
613 * Major re-vamping of Makefile/Makeconf.
615 Changes/New Features in 5.1.21:
616 * ESS[SAS]: info documentation now available!, see ESS->Help for
617 SAS; `F12' opens GSASFILE nearest point for viewing either within
618 emacs, when available, or via an external viewer; more syntax
619 highlighting keywords; more enhancements for remote SAS batch jobs
620 with Kermit; new framework for remote SAS interactive jobs, see
623 * ESS[S]: info documentation now available!, see ESS->Help for the S
626 * Makefile: tag now independent of rel; info files made by
627 doc/Makefile and installed in new info sub-directory
629 Changes/New Features in 5.1.20:
630 * New `options()$STERM' in the S dialects (S, S-Plus, R). The S
631 program can determine the environment in which it is currently
632 running. ESS sets the option to `iESS' or `ddeESS' when it starts
633 an S language process. We recommend other specific values for S
634 language processes that ESS does not start.
636 * New `ess-mouse-me' function, assigned to S-mouse-3 by default.
637 User may click on a word or region and then choose from the menu
638 to display the item, or a summary, or a plot, etc. This feature
639 is still under development.
641 * GNU Emacs 21.1 is now supported (fixed for S dialects, SAS & BUGS),
642 (some from Stephen Eglen).
644 * XEmacs 21.x is now supported (fixed w32-using-nt bug)
646 * XEmacs on Win (NT) is better supported.
648 * Workaround for bug in Sqpe+6 (S-PLUS 6 for Win).
650 * should now work even when imenu is not available (for old
653 * ESS[SAS]: XEmacs-Imenu fix; `C-TAB' is globalized along with your
654 function-key definitions, if specified; you can specify your SAS
655 library definitions outside of autoexec.sas for ess-sas-data-view
656 with SAS code placed in the variable ess-sas-data-view-libname,
657 also the dataset name is defaulted to the nearest permanent dataset
658 to point; Speedbar support now works for permanent datasets, please
659 ignore first./last.; new font-locking is now the default with more
660 improvements for font-locking PROCs, macro statements, * ; and %* ;
661 comments; you can toggle sas-log-mode with `F10' which will
662 font-lock your .log (if it isn't too big); submit remote .sas
663 files accessed with ange-ftp, EFS or Tramp (Kermit is
664 experimental) by setting ess-sas-submit-method to 'sh;
665 ess-sas-submit-command and ess-sas-submit-command-options are
666 buffer-local so you can have local file variable sections at the
667 end of your .sas files to request different executables or specify
668 special options and the local file variables are re-read at submit
669 instead of only at file open so that if you make a change it is
670 picked up immediately;
672 * ESS[BUGS]: font-lock with `in' fixed.
674 * for STATA: font-lock bug fixed.
676 * for Rd mode: `C-c C-v' and `switch-process' in menu. further,
677 `C-c C-f' prefix (Rd-font) for inserting or surrounding a word by
678 things such as \code{.}, \code{\link{.}}, \emph{.} etc.
680 * new functions (ess-directory-function) and (ess-narrow-to-defun)
681 ess-directory <-> default-directory logic (Jeff Mincy).
683 * Re-organized Makefile and fixed a few bugs.
685 Changes/New Features in 5.1.19:
686 * S+6 now supported (Tony Rossini (Unix) and Rich Heiberger
689 * New BUGS support through ESS[BUGS] mode (Rodney Sparapani)
690 Templates assist you in writing .bug and .cmd code (.cmd and .log
691 are replaced by .bmd and .bog to avoid emacs extension collisions).
692 Substitution" parameters facilitate "automagic" generation of
693 data...in" and "init...in" filenames, "const N=" from your data
694 file and "monitor()/stats()" commands. Activated by pressing
697 * Fixes for `ess-smart-underscore' SAS breakage (Rich Heiberger)
699 * You can change between PC and Unix, local and global SAS
700 function-key definitions interactively (Rich Heiberger)
702 * `C-Submit' a highlighted region to SAS batch (Rodney Sparapani)
704 * New and improved SAS syntax highlighting (Rodney Sparapani) To get
705 the new functionality, set ess-sas-run-make-regexp to nil. Also
706 available in .log files via `F10'.
708 * Open a permanent SAS dataset for viewing via `F9' (Rodney
709 Sparapani) You must have the library defined in autoexec.sas for
712 * User-friendly defaults for `sas-program',
713 `ess-sas-batch-pre-command' and `ess-sas-batch-post-command' as
714 well Customize support for these and other ESS[SAS] variables
717 * `ess-sas-suffix-2' now defaults to .dat via `F11' (Rodney
720 * Emacs/XEmacs, Unix/Windows issues collectively handled in
723 * defadvice solves problem of missing *ESS* (thanks to Jeff Mincy)
725 * Improved manual a bit by including things that were only in
728 Changes/New Features in 5.1.18:
729 * New `ess-smart-underscore' function, now assigned to "_" by
730 default. Inserts `ess-S-assign' (customizable " <- "), unless
731 inside string and comments where plain "_" is used instead. (MM)
733 * Fixes for longstanding interactive SAS breakage (RMH)
735 Changes/New Features in 5.1.17:
736 * Documentation for Windows Installation (Rich Heiberger)
738 * removal of ess-vars, finalization of customize support (in the
739 sense that there is no more use of ess-vars, but that we need to
740 fix ess-cust) (AJ Rossini)
742 * Many small (and large) fixes/contributions (MMaechler)
744 * addition of the "S-equal" variable and provide `M-x
745 ess-add-MM-keys' a way to remap "_" to `ess-S-assign', typically "
746 <- ", but customizable. (MMaechler)
748 Changes/New Features in 5.1.16:
753 Changes/New Features in 5.1.15:
756 Changes/New Features in 5.1.14:
757 * Yet more fixes to SAS mode, (Rich Heiberger and Rodney Sparapani)
759 * Customize support (for most Emacsen which support it) (AJRossini)
761 * ARC and ViSta support out of the box, and fixes for XLispStat
764 Changes/New Features in 5.1.13:
765 * Version numbering finally all depending on the ./VERSION file,
766 thanks to Martin Maechler.
768 * Yet more fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rich Heiberger.
770 Changes/New Features in 5.1.12:
771 * Splus 5.1 stabilized, thanks to Martin Maechler, Bill Venables,
772 Chuck Taylor, and others.
774 * More fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rodney Sparapani and Rich
777 Changes/New Features in 5.1.11:
778 * More fixes to Stata mode, thanks to Brendan Halpin
779 (mailto:brendan@essex.ac.uk).
781 * fixed bugs in ESS-elsewhere, thanks to many testers
783 * README.SPLUS4WIN has DETAILED instructions for S-PLUS 2000, thanks
784 to David Brahm (mailto:brahm@alum.mit.edu).
786 * Fixes to SAS mode, thanks to Rodney Sparapani
788 Changes/New Features in 5.1.10:
789 * More fixes to Stata mode
791 * primitive generic version of ESS-elsewhere
793 * Small fixes to SAS/Stata.
795 Changes/New Features in 5.1.9:
798 * Literate Data Analysis using Noweb works
800 Changes/New Features in 5.1.8:
803 * R documentation mode defaults changed
805 Changes/New Features in 5.1.2:
806 * able to use inferior iESS mode to communicate directly with a
807 running S-Plus 4.x process using the Microsoft DDE protocol. We
808 use the familiar (from Unix ESS) `C-c C-n' and related key
809 sequences to send lines from the S-mode file to the inferior S
810 process. We continue to edit S input files in ESS[S] mode and
811 transcripts of previous S sessions in ESS Transcript mode. All
812 three modes know the S language, syntax, and indentation patterns
813 and provide the syntactic highlighting that eases the programming