ESS & XLispStat?

[Steven Núñez]

Gents,

 

I hope you’ll all forgive me for not asking a strictly CL-stat program, but I figure that we have the right people on this list, there’s no other place to ask, and it might be a bit of a trip down memory lane.

 

I couldn’t stand it any longer with R, so compiled xlisp-stat on MacOS X. It wasn’t all that difficult. Yes, it’s primitive, but it works, and as long as people don’t care about the path to results, it might be worth a try.

 

The problem is with ESS. Grepping through the code I see a number of references to XLS mode, but I can’t seem to find any way to invoke it on a lisp file. I’m using emacs 24, and using the customisations pane I can see the value for inferior-xls-program-name, and it’s set correctly, but M-x XLS gives me ‘no match’. There’s still a documentation page on the github repository on ESS and XLisp-stat, though not updated since 1997.

 

Any idea how to get the most recent ESS working with xlisp-stat?

 

Regards,

-          SteveN

[A.J. Rossini]

Since I wrote that part, I guess this is as appropriate a place as any (though the ESS list is also appropriate).  

However, since I haven't looked at that emacs lisp code in a long time (2001,  amd last used in 2005) AND there have been some incredibly changes to the COMINT layer that is used for process interaction, I would not be surprised that it is dead.  

The last user inquiry that I recall for that bit of code was around 2001....

With respect to xlispstat, as long as you aren't using the pRNG for long streams, and not torturing the numerics with edge cases, you should be fine. 

It would also be a help for me if you could make a patch that I could pull with example of (unimplemented ) code so that I could move in the direction of what you want to see.  The higher numbered examples section have a number of sketches which describe the thinking I am looking for, BUT use the syntax and notation that you would prefer, no need to start from my (personal and flawed)

Examples. 

Best,

-tony

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[Steven Núñez]

Hi Tony,

 

Thanks. Should I take this to mean that ESS isn’t likely to work with xlispstat? If not, any modes that you’d suggest?

 

Cheers,

-          Steve Nunez

[A.J. Rossini]

Hi Steve - it did, but depends on whether the config file for the XLS specific stuff was fixed.  Unfortunately the XLS REPL us primitive, no real good way to manage a SLIME interface.

However, the other inferior lisp mode (can't recall name) could be configured to work with xlisp.  So should be modifiable to work with xlispstat.

I would ask in the ESS list, I stopped actively working on ESS IN 2004, and gave up active tracking around 2005.  Someone might have done something since.