ESS on Panther

[Rodney Sparapani]

> Hi -
>
> I upgraded to OS X 10.3 (Panther) and installed the carbon build of GNU
> Emacs 21.3.50.1 from http://mindlube.com/products/emacs/index.html.
>
> When I load it, attempting to initialize ESS in the normal way in my 
> .emacs
> -- (load "~/elisp/ess-5.1.24/lisp/ess-site") -- gives the following 
> error:
>
> An error has occurred while loading `/Users/kjhealy/.emacs':
>
> Invalid read syntax: ?
>
> Which is sadly not very informative to me :(
>
> Is this a known problem? Any ideas how to fix it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kieran
>

Kieran:

Not a known problem.  I'm using Jaguar, but I haven't heard of any 
problems with respect to Panther.  Two things to try besides Tony's 
advice.  The version of GNU Emacs that you are using is an older beta.  
A more recent beta version is 21.3.50.5.  See 
http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/ for details.  Also, your version 
of ESS is a little dated.  We haven't released a gamma since then, but 
there is a more recent beta, 5.2.0beta3, at StatLib and the ESS web 
page at
http://www.analytics.washington.edu/Zope/wikis/ess/FrontPage

Rodney