Re: R source block :session errors, perhaps due to recent ESS change

[John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:55 PM, William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> wrote:
> I updated my packages today and now Org documents with R source blocks are
> failing when I try to use a running R session.
>
> If you start R and leave that session open, then run this in an Org doc, it
> will fail (though it will success without the :session parameter):
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC R :session :results values
> 1
> #+END_SRC
>
> The error I get (which includes a lot of junk I can't paste; why, I don't
> know) is
>
> ess-eval-buffer: Wrong number of arguments: #[(start end toggle &optional
> message) ... junk ... [ess-local-customize-alist toggle ess-eval-visibly
> message proc visibly ess-force-buffer-current "Process to use: " "Starting
> evaluation..." ess-setq-vars-local ...] 6
> ("/home/wdenton/.emacs.d/elpa/ess-20160502.557/lisp/ess-inf.elc" . 48726) "r
> P"], 5

Looks like I get the same after upgrading ess.

#+begin_quote (Messages buffer)

Type C-h m for help on ESS version 16.04
Cannot read history file /home/jwhendy/Desktop/.Rhistory
ess-tracebug mode enabled
ess-eval-buffer: Wrong number of arguments: #[(start end toggle
&optional message) "ÆÇ!ˆÃÈ!ˆ\b„\x13ÉÊÀ!J!ˆË ˆ ƒ\x1f
?‚
\v†%ÌÍ \x1c^[\x1dŠÎ \x0e\x10\x0e\x11
\v%ˆ,\x0e\x12ƒ>Ï ˆ\x0e\x10\x0e\x11D‡" [ess-local-customize-alist toggle ess-eval-visibly
message proc visibly ess-force-buffer-current "Process to use: "
"Starting evaluation..." ess-setq-vars-local ...] 6
("/home/jwhendy/.elisp/ess/lisp/ess-inf.elc" . 49640) "r
P"], 5

#+end_quote

ess-version: 16.04 [git: e5bd50a490da8715efed7addf05da05127fa6732]
(loaded from /home/jwhendy/.elisp/ess/)

That's odd to me, though,  as you show 15.09... I ran fine before
doing a make clean, ESS git pull, and make. I didn't touch Org. So I
suspect it's an ESS thing?

Org-mode version 8.3.4 (release_8.3.4-753-gda4db33 @
/home/jwhendy/.elisp/org/lisp/)


John

>
> Now, the most recent commit to lisp/ess-inf.el had the comment "Get rid of
> needless `inject` argument:"
>
> https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/commit/6b89391a13322ff2297fb3895ed665ff2048fc10#diff-724cde45c58d919c6bb8e85b26faf792
>
> Perhaps that is the cause?  I suspect it's Org talking to ESS, but if it's a
> problem in ESS I can take it to that mailing list.
>
>
> Emacs  : GNU Emacs 25.1.50.29 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
> 3.16.7)
>  of 2016-05-03
>
> Org-mode version 8.3.4 (release_8.3.4-771-g36dbdb @
> /usr/local/src/org-mode/lisp/)
>
> ess-version: 15.09-2 patched [elpa: 20160502.557] (loaded from
> /home/wdenton/.emacs.d/elpa/ess-20160502.557/)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
> --
> William Denton ↔  Toronto, Canada ↔  https://www.miskatonic.org/