[ESS] New version of GNU Emacs Modified

Erich Neuwirth erich.neuwirth at univie.ac.at
Mon Feb 27 23:51:39 CET 2012


I have to report the same error on Windows 7 / 32bit.

On Feb 27, 2012, at 7:24 PM, Brian Diggs wrote:

> 
> I installed this version for Windows (Windows 7 - 64 bit if it matters), but I get an error on startup:
> 
> In Messages:
> 
> ERROR:ess-site.el:ess-etc-directory
> Relative to ess-lisp-directory, one of the following must exist:
> ../etc/ess, ../etc, ../../etc/ess or ./etc
> 
> In Warnings:
> 
> Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading `~/.emacs':
> 
> Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
> 
> To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
> cause of the error in your initialization file.  Start Emacs with
> the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace.
> 
> 
> Thinking it was something in my .emacs, I first commented everything out, and then renamed the file entirely. But I'm getting the same error. So it might not be just me. Is anyone else seeing this? If it is just me, where do I need to look to track this down, or what information can I provide so that someone can help me track this down? I'm not proficient in emacs-lisp.
> 
> -- 
> Brian S. Diggs, PhD
> Senior Research Associate, Department of Surgery
> Oregon Health & Science University
> 
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