[ESS] New User Getting Error loading init.el

[John Fox]

Dear Richard,

Did you try the suggestion that Rodney gave you yesterday, to insert

  (setq grep-find-use-xargs nil) 

in the init file before loading ess-site?

I'm still surprised by the errors, especially the second one, since that
problem was supposed to be fixed in the current Xemacs.

I hope this helps,
 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 Richard Reed
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 4:21 AM
> To: John Fox
> Cc: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch; Rodney Sparapani
> Subject: Re: [ESS] New User Getting Error loading init.el
> 
> I appreciate John Fox's help. I made a change he suggested as follows.
> 
> I reinstalled XEmacs in the Program Files with with a new 
> copy of John Fox's init.el file in G:\.xemacs. I got the 
> following error message when I started
> XEmacs:
> 
> (1) (initialization/error) An error has occurred while loading
> g:\.xemacs\init.el:
> Cannot open load file: ess-site
> 
> Then I made the following change in init.el:
> ;;;    (load "ess-site")
> (load "G:/Program 
> Files/XEmacs/site-packages/ess-5.2.11/lisp/ess-site")
> 
> Then I got the following error when I started XEmacs:
> 
> (1) (initialization/error) An error has occurred while loading
> g:\.xemacs\init.el:
> Searching for program: No such file or directory, xargs
> 
> The command "set HOME" on DOS command line returns "HOME=G:\ 
> HOMEDRIVE=G:
> HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\Richard Reed ".
> The folder .xemacs exists and contains a copy of "init.el".
> 
> Does anyone else have any other suggestions?
> 
> Thanks Richard
> 
> On 3/2/06, John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
> > --------------------------------
> > John Fox
> > Department of Sociology
> > McMaster University
> > Hamilton, Ontario
> > Canada L8S 4M4
> > 905-525-9140x23604
> > http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
> > --------------------------------
> >
> > > -----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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