[ESS] ess, Xemacs, and Rterm crash

[John Fox]

Dear Michael,

I'm coincidentally out of town, using a computer that didn't have
XEmacs/ESS on it. Following the directions at
<http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Books/Companion/ESS/ess-xemacs.pdf>,
I downloaded and installed the latest versions of XEmacs for Windows
(2.4.19) and ESS (5.2.12); I already had R 2.3.0 patched on the
machine. Everything appears to work fine, so there's probably something
peculiar about your set up. My machine is running Windows XP SP 2.

I hope this helps,
 John

On Wed, 24 May 2006 18:34:20 -0400
 Michael Wolosin <msw10 at duke.edu> wrote:
> At 06:08 PM 5/24/2006 -0400, Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
> >My first suggestion is to remove the init.el entirely.
> When I do this, Xemacs starts correctly as expected.
> 
> >Then manually load the ess/.../lisp/ess-site.el
> >and see what happens.
> I open ess-site.el in a buffer, and evaluate the whole buffer.  It
> gives me 
> the following error in the mini-buffer:
> "ERROR:ess-site.el:ess-etc-directory"
> then "loading regexp-opt" or something like that, and then "enabling 
> speedbar support"
> 
> The ess-etc-directory on my installation is at one of the expected 
> locations (a subdirectory called /etc from the same parent as the
> lisp 
> directory in which ess-site.el resides.)
> 
> >If that is ok, then you will need to make further
> >adjustments to the init.el.
> >
> >If not, then send those error messages to ess-bugs at stat.math.ethz.ch
> 
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John Fox
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/