ESS on Panther

[Kieran Healy]

On 12/16/03 8:25 AM, "John Maindonald" <john.maindonald at anu.edu.au> wrote:

> You create a file ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist which has an dictionary
> of environment variables in it, then you must log in again for it to
> take effect. Then Emacs will see those environment variables. In this
> manner you could make Emacs.app see, for example, a different PATH
> variable.
> "

I created this file (it's an XML file) but it doesn't seem to help with the
ESS issue, unfortunately. I will see if I can compile my own Emacs and use
the beta version of ESS that Rodney suggested.

Thanks for the help on this,

Kieran

> On 16/12/2003, at 2:47 AM, Rodney Sparapani wrote:
> 
>>> 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
>> 
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>> 
>> 
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Kieran Healy, http://www.u.arizona.edu/~kjhealy
Assistant Professor, Sociology Dept, University of Arizona.
Research Fellow, SPT, RSSS, Australian National University.