Thanks, John. No. I missed Rodney's suggestion yesterday. I just inserted
"(setq grep-find-use-xargs nil)" and every appears to work!!

Thank you John and Rodney.

On 3/3/06, John Fox <jfox@mcmaster.ca> wrote:
>
> Dear Richard,
>
> Did you try the suggestion that Rodney gave you yesterday, to insert
>
>   (setq grep-find-use-xargs nil)
>
> in the init file before loading ess-site?
>
> I'm still surprised by the errors, especially the second one, since that
> problem was supposed to be fixed in the current Xemacs.
>
> I hope this helps,
> 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 Richard Reed
> > Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 4:21 AM
> > To: John Fox
> > Cc: ess-help@stat.math.ethz.ch; Rodney Sparapani
> > Subject: Re: [ESS] New User Getting Error loading init.el
> >
> > I appreciate John Fox's help. I made a change he suggested as follows.
> >
> > I reinstalled XEmacs in the Program Files with with a new
> > copy of John Fox's init.el file in G:\.xemacs. I got the
> > following error message when I started
> > XEmacs:
> >
> > (1) (initialization/error) An error has occurred while loading
> > g:\.xemacs\init.el:
> > Cannot open load file: ess-site
> >
> > Then I made the following change in init.el:
> > ;;;    (load "ess-site")
> > (load "G:/Program
> > Files/XEmacs/site-packages/ess-5.2.11/lisp/ess-site")
> >
> > Then I got the following error when I started XEmacs:
> >
> > (1) (initialization/error) An error has occurred while loading
> > g:\.xemacs\init.el:
> > Searching for program: No such file or directory, xargs
> >
> > The command "set HOME" on DOS command line returns "HOME=G:\
> > HOMEDRIVE=G:
> > HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\Richard Reed ".
> > The folder .xemacs exists and contains a copy of "init.el".
> >
> > Does anyone else have any other suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks Richard
> >
> > On 3/2/06, John Fox <jfox@mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear Richard and Rodney,
> > >
> > > I don't understand this either, since this problem went
> > away (at least
> > > for
> > > me) with version 21.4.19 of XEmacs.
> > >
> > > BTW, in the most recent version of my instructions, I recommend
> > > unzipping ESS into c:\Program Files\XEmacs\site-packages\.
> > That might
> > > explain why XEmacs couldn't find ess-site without the explicit path.
> > >
> > > 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 Rodney
> > > > Sparapani
> > > > Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 8:18 PM
> > > > To: ess-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
> > > > Subject: Re: [ESS] New User Getting Error loading init.el
> > > >
> > > > From: "Richard Reed" <richardwreed@gmail.com>
> > > >
> > > > >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.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > It looks like the recent bug in xemacs-base, but I don't see how
> > > > since you are using 21.4.19.
> > > > Try putting this (setq grep-find-use-xargs nil) before your (load
> > > > ...) statement in init.el
> > > >
> > > > Rodney
> > > >
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