emacs not loading package via load-path

emacs not loading package via load-path

[Ferdinand]

Hi,

I would like to use ESS (emacs speaks statistics).
Therefore I put the ess-site.el in a directory that I added to the load-path variable in my .emacs file:

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/documents/emacs/load on startup/ess/lisp/")
(require ’ess-site)


This doesn't work. I get an error on startup (Symbol's value as variable is void: ’ess-site)
and I can't open an R session which tells me that the crucial .el file was not loaded.

When I load the ess-site.el manually or add this to .emacs:
(load "~/documents/sonstiges/emacs/load on startup/ess/lisp/ess-site.el")
it all works fine.

I don't have any other load-path things in my .emacs file.


So what am I doing wrong?

(I am using emacs 24.1 on mac OS X)


thanks for any help!

Re: emacs not loading package via load-path

[Jack Kelly]

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Ferdinand <Ferdinand.Gruebler@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to use ESS (emacs speaks statistics).
> Therefore I put the ess-site.el in a directory that I added to the load-path variable in my .emacs file:
>
> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/documents/emacs/load on startup/ess/lisp/")
> (require ’ess-site)
>
>
> This doesn't work. I get an error on startup (Symbol's value as variable is void: ’ess-site)
> and I can't open an R session which tells me that the crucial .el file was not loaded.
>
> When I load the ess-site.el manually or add this to .emacs:
> (load "~/documents/sonstiges/emacs/load on startup/ess/lisp/ess-site.el")
> it all works fine.

These paths are not the same, and I don't know if that's an error in
your email or in your .emacs. (The second has "sonstiges" between
"documents" and "emacs".)

-- Jack

Re: emacs not loading package via load-path

[Ferdinand]

> These paths are not the same, and I don't know if that's an error in
> your email or in your .emacs. 

sorry, that was a typo.

I meant to write:

>> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/documents/emacs/load on startup/ess/lisp/")
                                       
and 

>> (load "~/documents/emacs/load on startup/ess/lisp/ess-site.el")





On Aug 8, 2012, at 11:34 PM, Jack Kelly <jack@jackkelly.name> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Ferdinand <Ferdinand.Gruebler@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I would like to use ESS (emacs speaks statistics).
>> Therefore I put the ess-site.el in a directory that I added to the load-path variable in my .emacs file:
>> 
>> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/documents/emacs/load on startup/ess/lisp/")
>> (require ’ess-site)
>> 
>> 
>> This doesn't work. I get an error on startup (Symbol's value as variable is void: ’ess-site)
>> and I can't open an R session which tells me that the crucial .el file was not loaded.
>> 
>> When I load the ess-site.el manually or add this to .emacs:
>> (load "~/documents/sonstiges/emacs/load on startup/ess/lisp/ess-site.el")
>> it all works fine.
> 
> These paths are not the same, and I don't know if that's an error in
> your email or in your .emacs. (The second has "sonstiges" between
> "documents" and "emacs".)
> 
> -- Jack

Re: emacs not loading package via load-path

[Suvayu Ali]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 10:04:02PM +0200, Ferdinand wrote:
> 
> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/documents/emacs/load on startup/ess/lisp/")
> (require ’ess-site)

[...]

> 
> When I load the ess-site.el manually or add this to .emacs:
> (load "~/documents/sonstiges/emacs/load on startup/ess/lisp/ess-site.el")
> it all works fine.

Stupid question: the two paths above are different, is that a typo?

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Re: emacs not loading package via load-path

[Ferdinand]

> Stupid question: the two paths above are different, is that a typo?

yes, sorry for that…

The path is actually the same in my .emacs …

still not working :(

On Aug 8, 2012, at 11:47 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 10:04:02PM +0200, Ferdinand wrote:
>> 
>> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/documents/emacs/load on startup/ess/lisp/")
>> (require ’ess-site)
> 
> [...]
> 
>> 
>> When I load the ess-site.el manually or add this to .emacs:
>> (load "~/documents/sonstiges/emacs/load on startup/ess/lisp/ess-site.el")
>> it all works fine.
> 
> Stupid question: the two paths above are different, is that a typo?
> 
> -- 
> Suvayu
> 
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
> 

Re: emacs not loading package via load-path

[Barry Margolin]

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In article <mailman.6594.1344456250.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Ferdinand <Ferdinand.Gruebler@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to use ESS (emacs speaks statistics).
> Therefore I put the ess-site.el in a directory that I added to the load-path 
> variable in my .emacs file:
> 
> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/documents/emacs/load on startup/ess/lisp/")
> (require ¹ess-site)
> 
> 
> This doesn't work. I get an error on startup (Symbol's value as variable is 
> void: ¹ess-site)

The problem is that you've entered a "smart quote" before ess-site, 
instead of a regular apostrophe. Notice that the quote before ess-site 
is different from the one before load-path.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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