[ESS] New User Getting Error loading init.el

[Rodney Sparapani]

From: "Richard Reed" <richardwreed at gmail.com>

>There must be another problem. I made the changes suggested and I continue
>to get an error message.
>
>I changed the back slashes to forward slashes as below:
>
>(load "G:/Applications/XEmacs/XEmacs-21.4.19/ess-5.2.12/lisp/ess-site")
>
>I get the following error message when XEmacs starts up:
>
>(1) (initialization/error) An error has occurred while loading
>g:\.xemacs\init.el:
>Searching for program: No such file or directory, xargs
>
>init.el is in the above folder.
>
>  
>
It looks like the recent bug in xemacs-base, but I don't see how since 
you are using 21.4.19.
Try putting this (setq grep-find-use-xargs nil)
before your (load ...) statement in init.el

Rodney