Emacs cannot find flyspell/ispell

Question

On my Mac (Snow Leopard, 10.6.8), I\'m using a modified version of Emacs 24.2 provided here to utilize Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) from the downloads page. Emacs works, but I

Answer 1

Please, please read the documentation provided by Emacs itself before trying arbitrary instructions from random websites.

Emacs 24.2 includes Flyspell. You must not explicitly install it. If you do so, undo this, that is, delete flyspell.el from /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-lisp. At best, delete /Applications/Emacs.app completely, and re-install it, to start from scratch.

However, Flyspell needs a spell checking tool, which is not included in Emacs. The error message tells you that you have no such tool installed.

You need to install the ASpell spell checker. You can install it with homebrew with brew install aspell.