[R] Re: ESS for R

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Subject: [R] Re: ESS for R
From: A.J. Rossini (rossini@blindglobe.net)
Date: Wed 20 Dec 2000 - 02:33:48 EST 

Message-ID: <87zohsbcb7.fsf@jeeves.blindglobe.net>

>>>>> "BR" == B Rowlingson <B.Rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk> writes:

>> Could you check and see if the variable is global or
>> buffer-local? ("C-h v ess-dump-filename-template" should do
>> it).

BR> ess-dump-filename-template's value is "rowlings.%s.S" Local in
BR> buffer *S+5*; global value is "rowlings.%s.S" [+ docs] Defined
BR> in `ess-cust'.

BR> whereas ess-source-directory is:

BR> ess-source-directory's value is "./Src99/" [+ docs] Defined in
BR> `ess-cust'.

BR> Such scoping concepts are beyond my meagre elisp
BR> knowledge. There's a whole bunch of
BR> 'make-variable-buffer-local' calls in ess-cust.el but neither
BR> of the two variables are mentioned...

The problem is this:
   buffer-local variables accomodate any value which might vary
   between buffers. So, the "right" place to define this will be in a
   hook that gets called when R-mode gets called, since for example,
   we'd like to dump SAS code in rowlings.%s.sas, etc.

   I think that ess-dump-filename-template needs to be redefined in
   essd-sp5.el , or essd-r.el, if you want your site-configs to persist
   across users (and actually work).

HOWEVER, you mentioned that what you wanted was the "default" function
thing, i.e.
        dumped <- function { }
placed into a non-existant buffer. This is a difference as far as how
S-PLUS and R dump objects, I think. Your point, which I recall (I've
not used S-PLUS for actual data analysis in a long time) is that this
gets set for non-existant objects when using ESS for S-PLUS, and not
for R, sounds familiar.

I've CC'd ESS-help and R-help; can anyone verify this discrepancy
(with ESS under S-PLUS and R)?

best,
-tony 

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