[ESS] Aquamacs cannot find file at startup

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Christian  <christian using echoffmann.ch>
>>>>>     on Mon, 18 Sep 2017 18:34:19 +0200 writes:

    > Hi,
    > Starting Aquamacs 3.3 on MacbookPro MacOS 10.12.6, I get an error
    > --------
    > Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading 
    > ‘/Users/hoffmannc/.emacs’:

    > File error: Cannot open load file, No such file or directory, 
    > ~/elisp/vendor/ess/lisp/ess-site.el
    > -------

    > My /Users/hoffmannc/.emacs looks like this
    > _________________
    > ;; ESS: Emacs Speaks Statistics
    > (load "~/elisp/vendor/ess/lisp/ess-site.el")

as nobody else mentioned the obvious:
You explicitly load a file above, "~/elisp/...../ess-site.el",
and the emacs error message says
    'No such file or directory'

I cannot imagine that such an error message would not be
correct.

==> Please do load a version of 'ess-site.el' that exists  ...

Mit herzlichem Gruess uf Huusen am Albis,
Martin

    > ;; Use shift-enter to split window & launch R (if not running), execute 
    > highlighted
    > ;; region (if R running & area highlighted), or execute current line
    > ;; (and move to next line, skipping comments). Nice.
    > ;; See http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsSpeaksStatistics,
    > ;; FelipeCsaszar. Adapted to split vertically instead of
    > ;; horizontally.

    > (setq ess-ask-for-ess-directory nil)
    > (setq ess-local-process-name "R")
    > (setq ansi-color-for-comint-mode 'filter)
    > (setq comint-prompt-read-only t)
    > (setq comint-scroll-to-bottom-on-input t)
    > (setq comint-scroll-to-bottom-on-output t)
    > (setq comint-move-point-for-output t)
    > (defun my-ess-start-R ()
    > (interactive)
    > (if (not (member "*R*" (mapcar (function buffer-name) (buffer-list))))
    > (progn
    > (delete-other-windows)
    > (setq w1 (selected-window))
    > (setq w1name (buffer-name))
    > (setq w2 (split-window w1 nil t))
    > (R)
    > (set-window-buffer w2 "*R*")
    > (set-window-buffer w1 w1name))))
    > (defun my-ess-eval ()
    > (interactive)
    > (my-ess-start-R)
    > (if (and transient-mark-mode mark-active)
    > (call-interactively 'ess-eval-region)
    > (call-interactively 'ess-eval-line-and-step)))
    > (add-hook 'ess-mode-hook
    > '(lambda()
    > (local-set-key [(shift return)] 'my-ess-eval)))
    > (add-hook 'inferior-ess-mode-hook
    > '(lambda()
    > (local-set-key [C-up] 
    > 'comint-previous-matching-input-from-input)
    > (local-set-key [C-down] 'comint-next-input)))
    > (require 'ess-site)
    > _________________
    > ..and the last line seems to cause the error, as can be seen by C-x C-e.
    > How can I correct this error?

    > Thanks for any hints.
    > Christian
    > -- 
    > Christian Hoffmann
    > Rigiblickstrasse 15b
    > CH-8915 Hausen am Albis
    > Switzerland
    > Telefon +41-(0)44-7640853

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