ESS 5.5 released

[Martin Maechler-4]

Dear ESS users,

I have released ESS 5.5, a few minutes ago,
and you can get it as usual from the 'Downloads' tab at
http://ESS.r-project.org/

It does not contain new features, but fixes some buglets,
including the recent issue
that enabling (non-emacs) HTML help for R
now does work by customizing the
inferior-ess-help-command variable to
    "help(\"%s\", htmlhelp=TRUE)\n"

either by explicitly ("old-fashioned") adding
    (setq inferior-ess-help-command   "help(\"%s\", htmlhelp=TRUE)\n")
to your ~/.emacs
or by going through emacs menus
    Options -> Customize -> "Specific Option.."

Please send feedback to all of ESS-help@.. (or to ESS-core@...),
as I won't be online for a while from tomorrow night.

Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich

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[Stephen Eglen]

Dear all,

> It does not contain new features, but fixes some buglets,
> including the recent issue
> that enabling (non-emacs) HTML help for R
> now does work by customizing the
> inferior-ess-help-command variable to
>     "help(\"%s\", htmlhelp=TRUE)\n"
>
> either by explicitly ("old-fashioned") adding
>     (setq inferior-ess-help-command   "help(\"%s\", htmlhelp=TRUE)\n")
> to your ~/.emacs
> or by going through emacs menus
>     Options -> Customize -> "Specific Option.."

Small correction, I think you need to add the following to .emacs (note
different variable name):

(setq inferior-ess-r-help-command "help(\"%s\", htmlhelp=TRUE)\n")

Customize should work too.

Stephen

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[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 7 October 2009 at 12:45, Stephen Eglen wrote:
| Dear all,
|
| > It does not contain new features, but fixes some buglets,
| > including the recent issue
| > that enabling (non-emacs) HTML help for R
| > now does work by customizing the
| > inferior-ess-help-command variable to
| >     "help(\"%s\", htmlhelp=TRUE)\n"
| >
| > either by explicitly ("old-fashioned") adding
| >     (setq inferior-ess-help-command   "help(\"%s\", htmlhelp=TRUE)\n")
| > to your ~/.emacs
| > or by going through emacs menus
| >     Options -> Customize -> "Specific Option.."
|
| Small correction, I think you need to add the following to .emacs (note
| different variable name):
|
| (setq inferior-ess-r-help-command "help(\"%s\", htmlhelp=TRUE)\n")
|
| Customize should work too.

Can I use this new feature to close the open bug report we had for now 3+
years in Debian

        http://bugs.debian.org/371058

where someone desired to get help via

        help(foo, package=bar)

from within ESS?

Dirk

--
Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.

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[Stephen Eglen]

> | (setq inferior-ess-r-help-command "help(\"%s\", htmlhelp=TRUE)\n")
> |
> | Customize should work too.
>
> Can I use this new feature to close the open bug report we had for now 3+
> years in Debian
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/371058

sorry, no, I just checked:

  help(gpar, package=grid)

still produces output in the *R* buffer; I will take a look sometime.

Stephen

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