Hi Rodney : I am a novice and
I appreciate your response but
what does RSN mean ? Is
there a way around this xargs problem.
 
Kapser Daniel was also kind enough
to write me a long explanation
on how to install ESS and Emacs but
I haven't looked at it carefully yet ( it
takes me a while to get going
on Saturday ) so I am not sure
if he addresses this problem but
I'll let you know.
 
It's so appreciated that experts like yourselves respond
like this. I am very bad with this installation stuff
and had to work up the courage to even attempt it.
Now that I have, I don't want to give up.
Thanks a lot.
 
                             Mark
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Rodney Sparapani [mailto:rsparapa@hpi.mcw.edu] 
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 12:23 AM
To: Mark Leeds; A.J. Rossini
Cc: ess-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: RE: [ESS] [R] ESS and Emacs
 
The xargs problem was a recent addition to XEmacs.  XEmacs version
21.4.19
fixes this problem and should be released RSN, so check it out.

Happy Holidays,

Rodney

-----Original Message-----
From: ess-help-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch on behalf of Mark Leeds
Sent: Fri 12/30/2005 4:31 PM
To: A.J. Rossini
Cc: ess-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [ESS] [R]   ESS and Emacs

Hi Mr. Rossini : I took
the liberties of putting
the load command inside
my Rinit.el file  and have Rinit.el as
the target of my Xemacs icon ( see John
Fox directions for how to do that ).

Things definitely happen which is
a good sign that I never had before but they go
so fast on the bottom of the emacs page
( I think one of them is "loading cus-face"
but I can't be sure. I've
tried running it atleast 20 times to
see if I can see what it says but I can't )
but then , after about a second or
two of loading stuff, it gives an error :

"Searching for program : No such file
or directory, xargs".

Given that I don't know Lisp, maybe
I should give up unless this error
means anything to you or anyone else.
Basically, I can't tell where
it's bombing because I have no clue about
Lisp. Thanks.

                    Mark







-----Original Message-----
From: A.J. Rossini [mailto:blindglobe@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 11:37 AM
To: John Fox
Cc: R-Stat Help; Mark Leeds; ESS-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] [ESS] ESS and Emacs

Whoops, sorry John.  In the last few months, we took off the XEmacs
packaged ESS since it wasn't keeping up very well with the tarball,
due to complications, mis-matched release schedules/requirements, and
the like.

It now needs to be installed from tarball, though there is some help
for that, I believe.  (someone remind me what it is!).

On 12/30/05, John Fox <jfox@mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> Dear Paul and Mark,
>
> I've just taken a look at the current XEmacs setup program for
Windows, and
> it has changed significantly since the document to which you referred
was
> last updated (about a year ago). In particular, the XEmacs setup no
longer
> gives you the option to install all packages, as I recommended. Among
these
> is ess, which is not in the small set of packages that XEmacs
currently
> installs, nor does ess seem to be available via the packages tool in
XEmacs.
>
>
> I'm copying this response to the ESS help list, and will remove the
> XEmacs/ESS document on my web site so that people aren't further
misled.
>
> Sorry for the problem,
>  John
>
> --------------------------------
> John Fox
> Department of Sociology
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario
> Canada L8S 4M4
> 905-525-9140x23604
> http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
> --------------------------------
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch
> > [mailto:r-help-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of paul sorenson
> > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 11:51 PM
> > To: Mark Leeds
> > Cc: R-Stat Help
> > Subject: Re: [R] ESS and Emacs
> >
> > I tried it with XEmacs on Win XP and I had to install ESS
separately.
> >
> > Mark Leeds wrote:
> > > I have been using the document written by John Fox titled Sn
> > > Introduction to ESS + XEmacs for Windows Users of R.
> > >
> > > It's a very nice document and
> > > I went through it carefully but I got
> > > an error when I finished it and launched XEmacs.
> > >
> > > The error is "cannot open load file : ess-site".
> > >
> > > So, I did more investigation
> > > and it seems like there is a folder
> > >
> > > Program Files/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/etc/ess
> > >
> > > that should have been created when
> > > I downloaded XEmacs but it doesn't exist.
> > > There is a folder called efs ( rather than ess ) but I don't think
> > > that's it.
> > >
> > > I tried installing XEmacs again but the same thing happened.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know anything about this ?
> > > I am using Windows NT.
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >                                      Mark
> > >
> > >
> > >
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--
best,
-tony

blindglobe@gmail.com
Muttenz, Switzerland.
"Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can
easily
roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).

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