> From: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
> 
> Hey Mike,
> 
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Michael Hannon <jm_hannon@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> but Emacs complains about an "org-mode fontification error" and doesn't give
>> me an executable R source-code block.  I've tried numerous minor variations
>> on this theme, but I don't think it's worth wasting your time by listing all
>> of the thrashing I've done.  The solution is probably obvious to people with
>> a decent understanding of elisp.
>>
>
> Do you have org-src-fontify-natively set to t? If so I am taking a
> shot in the dark here, emacs probably doesn't know how to fontify R
> source. Do you have emacs-ess installed? I would expect an error like
> this if its not.
> 
> But I could be wrong here as I don't use either of emacs-ess or R.

Hi, Suvayu.  The variable org-src-fontify-natively was set to nil, but I get
the same result with it set to 't'.

I do have Emacs-ess installed.

I've been assuming that I was just messing up the syntax, but maybe there's
something deeper involved.

Thanks for your note.

-- Mike