There must be another problem. I made the changes suggested and I continue
to get an error message.

I changed the back slashes to forward slashes as below:

(load "G:/Applications/XEmacs/XEmacs-21.4.19/ess-5.2.12/lisp/ess-site")

I get the following error message when XEmacs starts up:

(1) (initialization/error) An error has occurred while loading
g:\.xemacs\init.el:
Searching for program: No such file or directory, xargs

init.el is in the above folder.

On 3/2/06, John Fox <jfox@mcmaster.ca> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --------------------------------
> John Fox
> Department of Sociology
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario
> Canada L8S 4M4
> 905-525-9140x23604
> http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
> --------------------------------
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ess-help-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch
> > [mailto:ess-help-bounces@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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