Configuration help for R with ESS+XEmacs under windows xp with John Fox's instructions

[zhu wang]

Dear John,

Thanks for your reply. Can you kindly forward the newer instructions to
me? I could not find them somehow.

I have put icon files in the toolbar directory as suggested. I am
confused since there are two init.el, one is in c\.xemacs C:\Documents
and another one is in Settings\Default\.xemacs.

Sorry for the typo in my last email.

Zhu Wang
 
Statistical Science Department
Southern Methodist University
3225 Daniel Avenue, Heroy 123
Dallas, TX 75275 
Tel:  (214)768-2453
Fax: (214)768-4035
 

-----Original Message-----
From: John Fox [mailto:jfox at mcmaster.ca] 
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 7:49 PM
To: zhuw at post.cis.smu.edu
Cc: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: Configuration help for R with ESS+XEmacs under windows xp
with John Fox's instructions

Dear Zhu Wang,

At 06:32 PM 12/16/2002 -0600, zhu wang wrote:


>Dear ESS list members,
>
>I think I have followed John Fox's instructions for configuration. But
I
>still have a problem. If I follow the step 5 to "specify a Start in
>directory for XEmacs on the Shortcut tab", say, c:\temp, then I have
the
>following result:

In the most recent instructions that I posted, this is step 7. Maybe the

newer instructions will prove clearer.

>(1) (initialization/error) An error has occurred while loading
>c:\Documents and Settings\Default\.xemacs\init.el:
>

I guess that HOMEDRIVE, HOMEPATH are pointing to c:\Documents and 
Settings\Default\. Is that right? Did you put init.el there?

>If I don't specify a Start in directory for XEmacs, it seems OK except
>for that there are no clear indications for the six icons rather that
>six icons showing "open" if I open XEmacs from "Start-Program-XEmacs".
>If I double click the XEmacs icon from the desktop, I will have error

This implies that the icon files weren't found. Did you put them in the 
toolbar directory as suggested?

>(1) (initialization/error) An error has occurred while loading
>c:\Documents and Settings\Default\.xemacs\init.el:
>
>Timeout waiting for prompt. Check inferior-ess-prompt or
>ess-loop-timeout.

See section 3.1 on trouble-shooting; you can also try adjusting the 
configuration settings near the beginning of the init.el file
(instructions 
are in the file).

>No help would be appreciated.

I hope that this helps,
  John
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Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4
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