Nope, ls -la shows no .etc files. 

Am 27.06.2014 um 15:21 schrieb Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>:

> Lucas Holland <hollandlucas@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Hello Rainer,
>> 
>> thanks for your reply. I don’t see how that could be the problem in my case as I 
>> 
>> i) edited the Makeconf file to explicitly use the Emacs version
>> installed in /Applications (it’s a binary I downloaded, not installed
>> with homebrew)
>> ii) have also tried loading ess from source (as explained by Vitalie)
> 
> OK - makes sense. Must have overlooked something in your posts.
> 
>> 
>> and yet I’m still getting the same error message. 
>> 
>> If all else fails I might have to try to install emacs via homebrew
>> and use your instructions but I’d really rather avoid doing that as
>> I’m quite happy with my emacs installation otherwise.
> 
> Just to make sure - there are no .elc files in the ESS directory (leftovers)?


> 
> Rainer
> 
>> 
>> Am 27.06.2014 um 14:21 schrieb Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>:
>> 
>>> Lucas Holland <hollandlucas@gmail.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> I’ve added 
>>>> 
>>>> (add-to-list 'load-path "/Users/lucas/.emacs.d/ess-dev/lisp")
>>>> (load "ess-site.el“)
>>>> 
>>>> to my init.el. I still get the same error when trying to load R-mode though. 
>>>> 
>>>> Am 27.06.2014 um 13:40 schrieb Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit@gmail.com>:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Just do
>>>>> 
>>>>> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/path/to/ESS/lisp/")
>>>>> (load "ess-site.el")
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Vitalie
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Lucas Holland on Fri, 27 Jun 2014 13:22:44 +0200 wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hello Vitalie,
>>>>>> thanks for your reply. I’m not aware of the emacs version I used to compile
>>>>>> it. I simply followed the instructions, adjusting the Makeconf so it points to
>>>>>> the emacs I use (i. e. the one in the /Applications) directory.
>>> 
>>> The give away (you are working on a Mac): I had exactly the same problem
>>> and it s=was caused by the fact that OSX was using the built in version
>>> of emacs for compilation (22.1.1 in my case on Maverick) and I was using
>>> the one installed via homebrew.
>>> 
>>> Solution: This depends how you installed emacs, but you effectively have
>>> to make surte, that make is using the new emacs. Easiest probably:
>>> rename the original emacs in /usr/bin to e.g. emacs.org and the
>>> emacsclient to emacsclient.org.
>>> 
>>> Now, itf your (assuming) homebrew installed emacs is in your path, it
>>> will be used for compilation.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Rainer
>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> How do I go about loading ESS from source directly (sorry, I’m quite new to the world of emacs)?
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks again!
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Lucas
>>>>>> Am 27.06.2014 um 13:16 schrieb Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit@gmail.com>:
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> This is one of those gost errors that people report
>>>>>>> sometimes. with-silent-modifications is there but the errors says it is
>>>>>>> not. It is usually caused by some sort of mismatch of emacs version
>>>>>>> during compilations. Have you compiled your ess with an older version of
>>>>>>> emacs? Try loading ESS from sourse directly.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Vitalie
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Lucas Holland on Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:34:13 +0200 wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I’ve just installed the latest version of ESS from github (14.05, the
>>>>>>>> same problem occurs with the version currently available for download
>>>>>>>> on the website).
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> However when I try to switch into R mode via M-x R-mode I get an
>>>>>>>> arrow and it seems to go into S mode instead. Here’s the error I get:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> ess-bp-recreate-all: Invalid function: with-silent-modifications
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> C-h f with-silent-modifications gives me
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> with-silent-modifications is a Lisp macro in `subr.el'.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> and some description text. 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I’m running the following Emacs version:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36) of 2013-03-13 on bob.porkrind.org
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I’ve seen this error being asked about before but in that case using
>>>>>>>> the latest ess version seems to have fixed it whereas that’s not the
>>>>>>>> case for me.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>> 
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>>> 
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