Automatically open .R files in R-mode about ess HOT 5 CLOSED

It is registered in ess-site.el. The standard way to load ess is with
(load 'ess-site.el'). If you play with autoloads yourself then you
obviously have to register it yourself, because ess-site.el is not
loaded.

Is this MELPA install that you are talking about? If so, then
auto-mode-alist could be populated in ess-autoloads.el file. Improving
package autoloads has been on my todo list for quite a while already.

Andrew Pennebaker [email protected]
on Wed, 29 May 2013 17:38:26 -0700 wrote:

Currently, you have to insert the following into .emacs in order for .R files to open in R-mode:
(autoload 'R-mode "ess-site.el" "" t)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '(".R'" . R-mode))

Could we please register .R file extensions with R-mode as part of ess installation?

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The standard way to load ess is with (load 'ess-site.el').

Yes, (load "ess-site.el") would do the trick. However, I've got quite a lot of loads in my .emacs, and they slow down Emacs. I try my best to delay them when possible. For example, I installed go-mode for editing Go code, and it doesn't require (load "go"), nor does it require inserting autoloads into my .emacs.

Is this MELPA install that you are talking about?

Yes. By the way, MELPA lists no description for ess.

Improving package autoloads has been on my todo list for quite a while already.

Glad to hear it! I'm trying to get in touch with a number of package authors, as I use a lot of languages, and my .emacs is filling up with manual autoload insertions that should be done by the packages themselves.

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Any plans to fix this?

If not maybe you could add something to the README to describe what users need to do in order to start using R-mode:

Setup for package.el users
===============

To automatically enable `R-mode` in `.R` files add the following to your init.el file:

    (autoload 'R-mode "ess-site.el" "" t)
    (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.R\\'" . R-mode))

Otherwise people (like me) will assume that it should "just work" and be confused when it doesn't.

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Any plans to fix this?

Yes. I hope to fix this by the next release. Haven't had much time so far.

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Great :)

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