[ESS] installation/ ess 5.2.3/ R 2.0.0/ mandrake

[Stephen Eglen]

Dear Sam,
the error suggests you are trying to load "menu.elc" which it cannot
find.  A quick look on XEmacs 21.4 and Emacs 21 shows me that too I
cannot find menu.elc; yet ESS works fine for me too, so I don't think
ESS loads menu.elc - maybe something else in your init files or system
is trying to load it.

Do you get the same error if you remove the line to load ess-site?

If you still believe it is an error with ESS, please follow the
guideline in the info file for reporting bugs:

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   If Emacs reports an error, backtraces can help us debug the problem.
Type "M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET".  Then run the
command that causes the error and you should see a *Backtrace* buffer
containing debug information; send us that buffer.
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The *Backtrace* buffer should help us narrow this down.

Stephen

McClatchie, Sam (PIRSA-SARDI) writes:
 > Colleagues
 > 
 > I have recently upgraded to Mandrake 10.1 and am having trouble getting ess
 > 5.2.3 (or ver. 5.2.2) running with R 2.0.0 under Xemacs 21.4.
 > 
 > I have made no other modifications to the ~/.xemacs.init.el file other than
 > to add the line 
 > (load "/usr/lib/ess-5.2.2/lisp/ess-site")
 > just below the 
 > ;; {{{ Configuration varaible functions statement
 > 
 > I have not edited the ess.site.el file.
 > 
 > When Xemacs starts it returns an error:
 > error in init file - cannot open load file: menu.elc
 > 
 > Any suggestions to resolve these problems?
 > 
 > Best fishes 
 > 
 > Sam
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