Richard, Vitalie,

Thanks for the responses, and sorry it took so long to get back to you.  I
ended up deciding the problem had to be with my ancient and very crufty
emacs init files, since I was getting other strange errors with other
packages.  So I started over with a clean .emacs, used the package manager
to install ESS, and it works just fine.

Thanks,

Gregg


On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh@temple.edu> wrote:

> try
> (load-file "/path/to/ESS/lisp/ess-site.el"
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Gregg Reynolds <gar@mobileink.com> wrote:
> > Followed the installation instructions exactly (I think) but cannot load
> > ess.  Same thing happens with both installation techniques
> >
> > (require 'ess-site)
> >
> > and
> >
> >  (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/ESS/lisp/")
> >
> >         (load "ess-site")
> >
> > OS X 10.8.5
> >
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp (getenv
> "PATH"))
> >   file-accessible-directory-p((getenv "PATH"))
> >   ess-find-exec-completions("Splus")
> >   mapcar(ess-find-exec-completions ("Splus"))
> >   ess-s-versions-create()
> >   ess-r-s-versions-creation()
> >
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > This bug report will be sent to the ESS bugs email list
> > Press C-c C-c when you are ready to send your message.
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > [ess-site.el]: ess-customize-alist=nil
> > [ess-site.el _2_]: ess-customize-alist=nil
> >
> >
> > Emacs  : GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36)
> >  of 2013-03-12 on bob.porkrind.org
> > Package: ess-mode 13.09-1 [<unknown>]
> >
> >
> > current state:
> > ==============
> > (setq
> >  ess-language nil
> >  ess-dialect nil
> >  ess-ask-for-ess-directory t
> >  ess-ask-about-transfile nil
> >  ess-directory nil
> >  ess-keep-dump-files 'ask
> >  ess-source-directory "/var/folders/4m/gtyyqsjs7mz2gqzvj7zfdpqm0000gn/T/"
> >  ess-use-ido t
> >  ess-use-eldoc t
> >  ess-use-tracebug t
> >  ess-use-auto-complete t
> >  ess-eval-visibly-p t
> >  ess-can-eval-in-background nil
> >  ess-local-process-name nil
> >  )
> >
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> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-bugs
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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>

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