[ESS] New User Getting Error loading init.el

[John Fox]

Dear Richard and Rodney,

I don't understand this either, since this problem went away (at least for
me) with version 21.4.19 of XEmacs.

BTW, in the most recent version of my instructions, I recommend unzipping
ESS into c:\Program Files\XEmacs\site-packages\. That might explain why
XEmacs couldn't find ess-site without the explicit path.

Regards,
 John

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John Fox
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4M4
905-525-9140x23604
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of 
> Rodney Sparapani
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 8:18 PM
> To: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [ESS] New User Getting Error loading init.el
> 
> 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
> 
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