[ESS-bugs] gnuclientw error

[Richard M. Heiberger]

What is ESS 2.10?  The current version is ESS 5.3.0.  Check your version
with C-h v ess-version

2.10 might be the Xemacs package number, in which case it is obsolete.
We are no longer distributing ESS through the Xemacs distribution method.

S-Plus 6.2 is also obsolescent.  The current version from the S-Plus command
version is 
Enterprise Developer Version 7.0.6  for Microsoft Windows : 2005 


Now to the specifics of your quesitions.

the message "(The system cannot find the file specified.  Full path needed?)"
suggests that the PATH environment variable isn't set up correctly.
You need "c:/emacs/gnuserv" (or equivalent if you put it somewhere else)
in your PATH environment variable.

I am much more worried about the message "browsing file pa00B918.txt ...".
rnorm is a standard S-Plus function and shouldn't be showing up in a temporary
*.txt file.  Please start a new Sqpe and issue the search() command.
Then send the first few lines of the *S+6* buffer to the Ess-bugs list.
Here are mine

options(interactive=T)
S-PLUS : Copyright (c) 1988, 2005 Insightful Corp.
S : Copyright Insightful Corp.
Enterprise Developer Version 7.0.6  for Microsoft Windows : 2005 
Working data will be in c:/HOME/tmp 
options(STERM='iESS', editor='gnuclient.exe', pager='gnuclientw.exe', help.pager='gnuclientw.exe')
> > > search()
[1] "c:/HOME/tmp" "splus"       "stat"        "data"        "trellis"    
[6] "nlme3"       "main"       


As a workaround, you can use Windows Explorer to go to
c:/progra~1/insightful/splus70/cmd
and then double-click on splus.chm.


Rich