spacemacs/layers/+lang/ess/README.org

ESS (R) layer

• Description
  • Features:
• Install
• Options
• Key bindings
  • Inferior REPL process
  • Help
  • More interaction with the REPL
  • R devtools
  • Debugging
  • Editing Markdown

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

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.

Also 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")

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

R devtools

Interaction with the R devtools package.

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

Editing Markdown

Edit Markdown files

Key binding	Description
SPC m c C	send knitr/sweave chunk and switch to REPL in insert mode
SPC m c c	send knitr/sweave chunk and keep buffer focused
SPC m c d	send knitr/sweave chunk and step to next chunk
SPC m c m	mark knitr/sweave chunk around point
SPC m c n	next knitr/sweave chunk
SPC m c N	previous knitr/sweave chunk