[ESS] Lisp nesting exceeds 'max-lisp-eval-depth'

[Rodney Sparapani]

john.gavin at ubs.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently encountered the error 
> 'Lisp nesting exceeds 'max-lisp-eval-depth'
> when trying to start R (2.3.0) within XEmacs (21.4) on Windows NT
> with ESS (5.3) and I am unable to find its cause.
> 
> I have stripped my init.el file down to the line
> '(require 'ess-site)' so Xemacs starts without a problem.
> When I open a .Rnw file, Xemacs recognises it and the ESS menu appears.
> But when I try 'M-x R', to start R, I get the error message
> 'Lisp nesting exceeds 'max-lisp-eval-depth'.
> 
> I have tried reinstalling Xemacs and ESS and 
> rolling ESS back to 5.2.12 without success.
> 
> R is in my path (C:/etc/R/R-2.3.0/bin) and I can start R from a shell
> within Xemacs (rterm --no-save) but I can not send code to that process
> as Xemacs says 'No ESS processes running'.
> If I use the menu (ESS-Start process-R) I get the same error
> 'Lisp nesting exceeds 'max-lisp-eval-depth'.
> 
> More output from 'ESS-Send bug report' is included below, in case that
> might help.
> 
> As suggestions would be very welcome. Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John.

Hi John:

What do you have max-lisp-eval-depth set to now?

Rodney