[ESS] New User Getting Error loading init.el

[John Fox]

Dear Stephen and Richard,

That's right -- you need forward slashes (/) not back-slashes (\). (I think
that double-back-slashes \\ might work too.)

Regards,
 John

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John Fox
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4M4
905-525-9140x23604
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Stephen Eglen
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 12:18 PM
> To: Richard Reed
> Cc: ESS
> Subject: [ESS] New User Getting Error loading init.el
> 
>  >
>  > **When I use John Fox's init.el file (5 February 06) with 
> the following  > changes to that file  >  > **;;; (load 
> "ess-site")  > (load  > 
> "G:\Applications\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.19\ess-5.2.12\lisp\ess-site")
> 
> Try changing each \ to / -- I think emacs on windows requires 
> / as the path separator.
> 
> Stephen
> 
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