[ESS] ESS on CentOS 5 throwing errors

[Brian]

Hi Emmanuel,

yup, same question here....

The solution below would work unless you don't have the proper 
compilers, which would really amaze me.

In org-babel notation:

#+begin_src sh
#!/bin/bash -x

## To be run from ~ i.e. home/USER/
cd ~

# make your own personal bin
mkdir bin

# Download
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/emacs-24.1.tar.gz

# Decompress
tar xzf emacs-24.1.tar.gz

# Move into the directory
cd emacs-24.1/

# Configure
./configure --prefix=$HOME/bin

# Compile
make

# I would use 'checkinstall -y' here but the following would also 
(hopefully) work
make install

# Now proceed with install ESS!
#+end_src

You can take the bash code in between the two *_src lines, paste it into 
a file (properly named), make that file executable and let her rip.

If that doesn't work, then I would first have the head of the IT person 
checked, then the OS checked/replaced...

HTH,
Brian

On 08/21/2012 02:49 PM, Vitalie Spinu wrote:
>
 > What is the version of emacs? I don't see you having mentioned this
 > before. My last guess it that it is just an utterly outdated one.
 >
 > >> Emmanuel Levy <emmanuel.levy at gmail.com>
 > >> on Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:51:09 +0300 wrote:
 >
 > > Hi Brian and Vitalie,
 > > I uninstalled both emacs and xemacs with YUM, and reinstalled both of
 > > them. Re-did the ess install, but I still got the same error messages.
 > > I also try to install all possible emacs add-ons (yum install emacs*)
 > > and this did not improve things.
 >
 > >> emacs -Q
 >
 > > xemacs opens a new file called -Q and emacs tells me ¨unknown 
option -Q ¨
 >
 > >>
 > >> How does that look?
 > >>
 > >> What about commenting out the '(require 'ess-site)'
 > >> and then evaluating it when emacs is open:
 > >>
 > >> M-: (require 'ess-site)
 > >> ; or
 > >> M-: (load "~/.emacs.d/ess-12.04-4/lisp/ess-site.el")
 >
 > > It gives me the same error ¨cannot find executable¨
 >
 > > I know things work well with Ubuntu, this is a desktop machine and not
 > > a server so Iĺl just convince the IT person that I cannot allow myself
 > > to loose days of work because of the OS. If ESS is trouble I cannot
 > > even imagine what its going to be with packages that depend on many
 > > uncommon libraries.
 >
 > > Thanks for your help,
 >
 > > Emmanuel
 >
 > >>
 > >>
 > >> The degugging info may be more informative. If that doesn't help, I am
 > >> guessing that compiling emacs on the certain OS will give you a 
solution. I
 > >> base this on only good experience on multiple platforms when getting a
 > >> working version of emacs and putting the ESS lisp code where emacs 
can find
 > >> it, and firing it up, that is, merely following the instructions at
 > >> ess.r-project.org. This has worked for me on Windows, 
(X,L,K)Ubuntu, and
 > >> Mac OSX. I am hard pressed to believe that it is a problem with 
ESS (or
 > >> Emacs).
 > >>
 > >> Try that please.
 > >>
 > >> Best,
 > >> Brian
 > >>
 >
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