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Previously when I used the underscore key in my keyboard ESS replaced it for the assigment keys <-. In emacs25 that no longer happens.

I have installed the ESS package from MELPA, as well as, it's dependencies. I have the line 

;; initialize all packages at startup
(package-initialize)

at the top of my .emacs file.

How can I replace the _ with the <- when I am trying to assign a variable in R.

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  • Inasmuch as the current stable release is Emacs 26.1, does the feature you seek work correctly with a current version of Emacs?
    – lawlist
    Mar 2, 2019 at 17:05

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I think it is related to recent changes in ESS. Quote from here: https://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html

The variable ess-smart-S-assign-key is now deprecated and will be removed in the next release. If you would like to continue using ‘_‘ for insterting assign in future releases, please bind ess-insert-assign in ess-mode-map the normal way.

I have the following in my config to achieve exactly what you are asking 

(define-key ess-r-mode-map "_" #'ess-insert-assign)
(define-key inferior-ess-r-mode-map "_" #'ess-insert-assign)
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  • Thanks, that did the trick. I needed to add (require 'ess-site) to the top of the .emacs file too. I thought (package-initialize) took care of that, but nope.
    – Usobi
    Mar 3, 2019 at 16:00

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