ess on mac os 10.3.2

[Rodney Sparapani]

> hi,
>
> my setup is
>
> RAqua 1.8.1
> Emacs 21.3.50.1 (binary from http://www.mindlube.com/products/emacs/)
> ESS 5.1.24
> OS X 10.3.2
>
> all freshly installed.
>
> i can run R successfully from a shell (Terminal), just by typing "R",
> and i have set the PATH correctly in Emacs using an environment.plist.
>
> at first, ESS failed to load successfully when i started emacs. i
> tracked this down to the file essl-omg.el: trying to M-x load-file
> it gives the error
>
> Invalid read syntax: "?"
>
> since i don't need omegahat, i commented out the line
>
> (require 'essd-omg)
>
> in ess-site.el. now ESS loads successfully.
>
> but when i hit M-x R, i get the error message
>
> if: Process R is not running.
>
> as an aside, i noticed that if i run a shell inside emacs,
> and just type R at the shell prompt, i get the error
>
> Fatal error: you must specify `--save', `--no-save' or `--vanilla'
>
> is this related?
>
> jon.

Jon:

I have a very similar setup, except that I'm running 5.2.0-beta3.  
However, I'm getting
the same error message so that's not helping.  You can install R from 
fink (1.6.1 I think)
and that does work.  But, something appears to be wrong with 1.8.1

Rodney