Tim Howes via Guix-patches via <guix-patches@gnu.org> writes:

> * gnu/packages/statistics.scm (emacs-ess): Update to 18.10.2.
> [source]: Use git-fetch and git-file-name.  Fix snippets for removing
> julia-mode and removing extra documentation formats.  Add snippets for
> installing elisp files and stopping installation of info directory.
> Remove snippet for old failing test.  Add snippet for new failing test.
> [arguments]: Remove extra "/".
> [native-inputs]: Add r-roxygen2.
> ---
> Hello,
> I have a patch for emacs-ess that upgrades the version to 18.10.2.
> I switched the download mechanism to git-fetch since there was a
> warning about using Github's automatically generated release files.
> Additionally, there are a couple fixes applied to the Makefiles and
> one of the tests.

Applied, thanks!  This was not an easy patch, so kudos.  :-)