[ESS] Emacs, ESS and Rmarkdown: Is this the way compile, is supposed to work?

[Kevin Zembower]

Hi, Manuel, thanks, again for your patience and help.

I made the changes that you suggested, but it generated an error. This 
appeared in the Backtrace window when I tried to create a non-existant 
(new) markdown file called test.md as soon as I started Emacs:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-slot-name "#<pm-polymode 
latex-root>" :lighter)
   signal(invalid-slot-name ("#<pm-polymode latex-root>" :lighter))
   slot-missing(#<pm-polymode latex-root> :lighter oref)
   eieio-oref(#<pm-polymode latex-root> :lighter)
 
byte-code("\302\303!\210\304\305\306\1J\307\"\304\310\4!\204X\0\3\262\1\2J\304\211\2\203V\0\311\3\312\"\205(\0\306\3\312\"\262\2\19\203@\0\310\2J..." 
[polymode-mode-map poly-noweb-mode-map make-variable-buffer-local 
poly-noweb-mode nil poly-latex-root-polymode eieio-oref :lighter keymapp 
slot-boundp :map :parent-instance append (lambda (def-tmp-var) (defvar 
poly-noweb-mode-map def-tmp-var "Keymap for noweb polymode.")) 
easy-mmode-define-keymap :inherit defalias #f(compiled-function 
(&optional arg) "noweb polymode.\n\n\\{poly-noweb-mode-map}" 
(interactive nil) #<bytecode 0x157a7241f2b5>) add-minor-mode] 11)
   require(poly-noweb)
 
byte-code("\300\301!\210\300\302!\210\300\303\304\305#\210\306\307\304\310\311\301%\210\312\313\314\315\316DD\317\311\307\320\321&\7\210\300\322!\210\323\324\325\304#\210\326\211\203..." 
[require polymode ess-mode ess-r-mode nil t custom-declare-group poly-R 
"Settings for poly-R polymodes" :group custom-declare-variable 
poly-r-root-polymode funcall function #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 
0x157a72385f7d>) "Root polymode with R host intended to be inherited..." 
:type object poly-noweb defvaralias pm-inner/noweb-R 
poly-r-noweb-innermode (saved-value saved-variable-comment) put 
make-obsolete-variable "v0.2" makunbound] 8)
   require(poly-R)
   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/kevin/.emacs.d/init.el" nil 
t)  ; Reading at buffer position 3377
   load-with-code-conversion("/home/kevin/.emacs.d/init.el" 
"/home/kevin/.emacs.d/init.el" t t)
   load("/home/kevin/.emacs.d/init" noerror nomessage)
   startup--load-user-init-file(#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 
0x157a7235af89>) #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x157a7235afa1>) t)
   command-line()
   normal-top-level()

Thanks for your advice with this. No worries about timely replies; I'm 
juggling a part-time retirement job with family activities, so I don't 
get a chance to play frequently with R.

-Kevin

On 5/6/23 06:00, ess-help-request using r-project.org wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 16:50:07 +0200
> From: Manuel Teodoro<teoten using gmail.com>
> To: Kevin Zembower<kevin using zembower.org>
> Cc:"ess-help using r-project.org"  <ess-help using r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [ESS] Emacs, ESS and Rmarkdown: Is this the way compile
> 	is supposed to work?
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> 
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> First of all, sorry for the late reply, I was OOO for a couple of weeks and
> I didn't have my laptop with me.
> 
> Anyway, I was trying to follow up with your init file but it has a couple
> of things that, in my opinion, might be redundant or not necessary, and I
> am not sure if silly mistakes there could not be conflicting with the
> proper function of poly-R and markdown.
> 
> For starters, could you comment all the part of the init file that relates
> to RMarkdown (what you shared above) and add instead the following few
> lines:
> 
> ===
> (require 'polymode)
>   (require 'poly-R)
>   (require 'poly-markdown)
> 
>   ;; MARKDOWN
>   (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.md" . poly-markdown-mode))
> 
>    ;; R modes
>   (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.Rnw" . poly-noweb+r-mode))
>   (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.Rmd" . poly-markdown+r-mode))
> ===
> 
> Then, try opening and working with an ".Rmd" file but please, also test
> with an ".md" file, plain markdown. If both work, congratulations.
> Otherwise, let me know what kind of errors you get with each type of file.
> We want to identify first if the problem is Rmd or markdown as a whole.
> Long time ago I got the problem that one of my Linux systems did not have
> any markdown parser installed and that was giving me problems, of course
> external to emacs but hard to identify.
> 
> Let me know and, since I'm back in the office, I'll try to reply faster
> this time.
> 
> All the best
> Manuel