[ESS] [R] ESS and Emacs

Sat Dec 31 00:41:26 CET 2005

I found a sample.init.el file
that I renamed as Rinit.el and put in my 
.emacs directory but I STILL get that "xargs" error
after a little loading.

Would someone that use ESS and Emacs
Together on windows mind sending me their init.el file 
And, if that doesn't work, I'll give up
and just tell myself that
I gave it my best shot.

                  Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Leeds 
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 5:31 PM
To: A.J. Rossini
Cc: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [ESS] [R] ESS and Emacs

Hi Mr. Rossini : I took
the liberties of putting
the load command inside
my Rinit.el file  and have Rinit.el as
the target of my Xemacs icon ( see John
Fox directions for how to do that ).

Things definitely happen which is
a good sign that I never had before but they go
so fast on the bottom of the emacs page
( I think one of them is "loading cus-face"
but I can't be sure. I've
tried running it atleast 20 times to
see if I can see what it says but I can't ) 
but then , after about a second or
two of loading stuff, it gives an error :

"Searching for program : No such file
or directory, xargs".

Given that I don't know Lisp, maybe
I should give up unless this error
means anything to you or anyone else.
Basically, I can't tell where
it's bombing because I have no clue about
Lisp. Thanks.

                    Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: A.J. Rossini [mailto:blindglobe at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 11:37 AM
To: John Fox
Cc: R-Stat Help; Mark Leeds; ESS-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] [ESS] ESS and Emacs

Whoops, sorry John.  In the last few months, we took off the XEmacs
packaged ESS since it wasn't keeping up very well with the tarball,
due to complications, mis-matched release schedules/requirements, and
the like.

It now needs to be installed from tarball, though there is some help
for that, I believe.  (someone remind me what it is!).

On 12/30/05, John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> Dear Paul and Mark,
>
> I've just taken a look at the current XEmacs setup program for
Windows, and
> it has changed significantly since the document to which you referred
was
> last updated (about a year ago). In particular, the XEmacs setup no
longer
> gives you the option to install all packages, as I recommended. Among
these
> is ess, which is not in the small set of packages that XEmacs
currently
> installs, nor does ess seem to be available via the packages tool in
XEmacs.
>
>
> I'm copying this response to the ESS help list, and will remove the
> XEmacs/ESS document on my web site so that people aren't further
misled.
>
> Sorry for the problem,
>  John
>
> --------------------------------
> John Fox
> Department of Sociology
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario
> Canada L8S 4M4
> 905-525-9140x23604
> http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
> --------------------------------
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of paul sorenson
> > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 11:51 PM
> > To: Mark Leeds
> > Cc: R-Stat Help
> > Subject: Re: [R] ESS and Emacs
> >
> > I tried it with XEmacs on Win XP and I had to install ESS
separately.
> >
> > Mark Leeds wrote:
> > > I have been using the document written by John Fox titled Sn
> > > Introduction to ESS + XEmacs for Windows Users of R.
> > >
> > > It's a very nice document and
> > > I went through it carefully but I got
> > > an error when I finished it and launched XEmacs.
> > >
> > > The error is "cannot open load file : ess-site".
> > >
> > > So, I did more investigation
> > > and it seems like there is a folder
> > >
> > > Program Files/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/etc/ess
> > >
> > > that should have been created when
> > > I downloaded XEmacs but it doesn't exist.
> > > There is a folder called efs ( rather than ess ) but I don't think
> > > that's it.
> > >
> > > I tried installing XEmacs again but the same thing happened.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know anything about this ?
> > > I am using Windows NT.
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >                                      Mark
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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--
best,
-tony

blindglobe at gmail.com
Muttenz, Switzerland.
"Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can
easily
roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).

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