Package: elpa-ess
Version: 17.11-5
Severity: normal
When you start an R process from inside ESS, it's supposed to load a
file ".load.R" that, among other things, sets it up so C-c C-v works.
R-initialize-on-start is looking for this file in the wrong place.
I get these error messages in *Messages*:
Type C-h m for help on ESS version 17.11
Cannot read history file /home/zack/.Rhistory
ess-tracebug mode enabled
load ESSR: + + + Error in file(filename, "r", encoding = encoding) :
cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In file(filename, "r", encoding = encoding) :
cannot open file ’/usr/share/ess/etc/ESSR/R/.load.R’: No such file or
directory
The directory /usr/share/ess does not exist.
The package has actually installed .load.R in
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa-src/ess-17.11/etc/ESSR/R/.load.R
If I manually do
source("/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa-src/ess-17.11/etc/ESSR/R/.load.R")
load.ESSR("/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa-src/ess-17.11/etc/ESSR/R")
then C-c C-v starts working again.
The bad path is coming from the 'ess-etc-directory' variable. C-h v says:
ess-etc-directory is a variable defined in ‘ess-site.el’.
Its value is "/usr/share/ess/etc/"
However, the string 'ess-etc-directory' does not appear anywhere in
ess-site.el. It appears actually to be defined in ess-utils.el, but
if I try to re-execute the code in ess-utils.el that sets its value,
that doesn't work either:
ERROR:ess-site.el:ess-etc-directory
Relative to ess-lisp-directory, one of the following must exist:
../etc/ess, ../etc, ../../etc/ess or ./etc
C-h v ess-lisp-directory says:
ess-lisp-directory is a variable defined in ‘ess-site.el’.
Its value is "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess"
That directory does exist, but it's not part of the package and I
don't know how to debug this any further. In case it helps:
$ ls -l /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess
total 1224
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1670 Aug 18 11:30 ess-arc-d.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6913 Aug 18 11:30 ess-bugs-d.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7732 Aug 18 11:30 ess-bugs-l.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1275 Aug 18 11:30 ess-compat.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1022 Aug 18 11:30 ess-comp.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92727 Aug 18 11:30 ess-custom.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5008 Aug 18 11:30 ess-dde.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1483 Aug 18 11:30 ess-debug.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6471 Aug 18 11:30 essd-els.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2658 Aug 18 11:30 ess.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 551 Aug 18 11:30 ess-eldoc.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4222 Aug 18 11:30 ess-font-lock.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3457 Aug 18 11:30 ess-generics.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17029 Aug 18 11:30 ess-gretl.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30779 Aug 18 11:30 ess-help.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 95795 Aug 18 11:30 ess-inf.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3242 Aug 18 11:30 ess-install.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6140 Aug 18 11:30 ess-jags-d.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15544 Aug 18 11:30 ess-julia.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1282 Aug 18 11:30 ess-lsp-l.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28374 Aug 18 11:30 ess-mode.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6168 Aug 18 11:30 ess-mouse.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2436 Aug 18 11:30 ess-noweb.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7374 Aug 18 11:30 ess-noweb-font-lock-mode.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46287 Aug 18 11:30 ess-noweb-mode.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2527 Aug 18 11:30 ess-omg-d.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2880 Aug 18 11:30 ess-omg-l.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 526 Aug 18 11:30 ess-pkg.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2792 Aug 18 11:30 ess-r-a.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2901 Aug 18 11:30 ess-r-args.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15170 Aug 18 11:30 ess-r-completion.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14133 Aug 18 11:30 ess-rd.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10279 Aug 18 11:30 ess-rdired.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6136 Aug 18 11:30 ess-r-gui.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63776 Aug 18 11:30 ess-r-mode.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30334 Aug 18 11:30 ess-roxy.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16162 Aug 18 11:30 ess-r-package.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40232 Aug 18 11:30 ess-r-syntax.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11715 Aug 18 11:30 ess-rutils.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1785 Aug 18 11:30 ess-s3-d.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1914 Aug 18 11:30 ess-s4-d.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38396 Aug 18 11:30 ess-sas-a.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6830 Aug 18 11:30 ess-sas-d.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41313 Aug 18 11:30 ess-sas-l.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1283 Aug 18 11:30 ess-send2.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1121 Aug 18 11:30 ess-send.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3821 Aug 18 11:30 ess-site.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19292 Aug 18 11:30 ess-s-lang.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2001 Aug 18 11:30 ess-sp3-d.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11131 Aug 18 11:30 ess-sp4-d.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2024 Aug 18 11:30 ess-sp5-d.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7989 Aug 18 11:30 ess-sp6-d.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17563 Aug 18 11:30 ess-sp6w-d.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22380 Aug 18 11:30 ess-stata-lang.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4736 Aug 18 11:30 ess-stata-mode.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10785 Aug 18 11:30 ess-swv.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4368 Aug 18 11:30 ess-toolbar.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 86358 Aug 18 11:30 ess-tracebug.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8708 Aug 18 11:30 ess-trns.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40543 Aug 18 11:30 ess-utils.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1612 Aug 18 11:30 ess-vst-d.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2173 Aug 18 11:30 ess-xls-d.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 469 Aug 18 11:30 Install.log.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142835 Aug 18 11:30 julia-mode.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3253 Aug 18 11:30 make-regexp.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9262 Aug 18 11:30 mouseme.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4210 Aug 18 11:30 msdos.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64 Aug 18 11:30 path.el
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (501, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500,
'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental'), (1,
'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages elpa-ess depends on:
ii dpkg 1.19.0.5+b1
ii emacsen-common 3.0.2
ii install-info 6.5.0.dfsg.1-4
Versions of packages elpa-ess recommends:
ii r-base-core 3.5.1-1+b1
Versions of packages elpa-ess suggests:
pn jags <none>
pn julia <none>
pn pspp <none>
pn xlispstat <none>
-- no debconf information
