spacemacs/layers/+lang/ess

ESS (R) layer

• Description
  • Features:
• Install
  • Layer
  • Linting
  • LSP
• Options
• Key bindings
  • Inferior REPL process
  • Help
  • More interaction with the REPL
  • R devtools
  • Debugging

Description

This layer adds support for statistical programming languages to Spacemacs.

Features:

• Syntax highlighting
• Auto-completion
• Syntax-checking via lintr
• Additional data viewer for R via ess-R-data-view
• Support for Org-Babel
• Showing of inline help for R constructs
• Repl support via R terminal
• Support for S, SAS and R
• Much more via the ESS Project

Install

Layer

To use this configuration layer, add it to your ~/.spacemacs. You will need to add ess to the existing dotspacemacs-configuration-layers list in this file.

Linting

Install lintr library via the R terminal to enable syntax checking. To do so start the R terminal and type below code.

  install.packages("lintr")

LSP

This backend uses an external server to provide the various IDE integrations and a more modern UI integration in spacemacs.

It requires installing the external server via:

  install.packages('languageserver')

Enable the lsp layer to activate this backend as well as setting the layer variable ess-r-backend:

  (ess :variables ess-r-backend 'lsp)

Options

Use a key binding to insert <-:

  (setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '((ess :variables
                                                         ess-assign-key "\M--")))

Key bindings

Inferior REPL process

Send code to inferior process with these commands:

Key binding	Description
SPC m '​	start REPL
SPC m ,​	send region, current function, or paragraph and step
SPC m s i	start REPL
SPC m s s	switch between file and REPL
SPC m s S	switch the process associate with file
SPC m s b	send buffer and keep code buffer focused
SPC m s B	send buffer and switch to REPL in insert mode
SPC m s d	send region or line and step
SPC m s D	send function or paragraph and step
SPC m s f	send function and keep code buffer focused
SPC m s F	send function and focus REPL
SPC m s l	send line and keep code buffer focused
SPC m s L	send line and focus REPL
SPC m s r	send region and keep code buffer focused
SPC m s R	send region and focus REPL

Help

Get help and helpers for inspecting objects at point are available in R buffers only.

Key binding	Description
SPC m h a	help apropos
SPC m h d	display help on object
SPC m h e	describe object
SPC m h h	display help on object
SPC m h i	display index for package
SPC m h m	manual lookup
SPC m h o	display demos
SPC m h p	view data under point using [ess-R-data-view][ess-R-data-view]
SPC m h r	lookup reference
SPC m h t	view table using [ess-R-data-view][ess-R-data-view]
SPC m h v	display vignettes
SPC m h w	help web search
C-j	next item in REPL history
C-k	previous item in REPL history

More interaction with the REPL

Helpers that provide further interaction with the REPL.

Key binding	Description
SPC m E /	set working directory
SPC m E TAB	install package
SPC m E d	edit object source or dump() object into a new buffer
SPC m E e	execute a command in the ESS process
SPC m E i	install package
SPC m E l	load installed package
SPC m E r	reload ESS process
SPC m E s	set source style
SPC m E t	build tags for directory
SPC m E w	set "width" option

R devtools

Interaction with the R devtools package.

Key binding	Description
SPC m D TAB	interface for devtools::install()
SPC m D a	ask for a devtools command and runs it
SPC m D c	interface for devtools::check()
SPC m D d	interface for devtools::document()
SPC m D i	interface for devtools::install()
SPC m D l	interface for devtools::load_all()
SPC m D r	interface for devtools::revdep_check()
SPC m D s	set a package for ESS r-package commands
SPC m D t	interface for devtools::tests()
SPC m D u	interface for devtools::unload()

Debugging

Tools for debugging

Key binding	Description
SPC m d ?	ess-tracebug-show-help
SPC m d `	show traceback and last error message
SPC m d \~	display call current call stack
SPC m d b	set breakpoint
SPC m d B	set conditional breakpoint
SPC m d d	set debugging flag for function
SPC m d e	toggle the on-error action
SPC m d i	jump to point where the last debugger or traceback event occurred
SPC m d k	kill breakpoint
SPC m d K	kill all breakpoints in buffer
SPC m d l	Set breakpoint logger
SPC m d n	go to next breakpoint
SPC m d N	go to previous breakpoint
SPC m d p	go to previous breakpoint
SPC m d o	toggle breakpoint state
SPC m d s	set environment for evaluation
SPC m d t	toggle tracebug
SPC m d u	unflag function for debug
SPC m d w	trigger ESS watch mode