Aspell error: no suitable spell-checker program found

Question

Although the function aspell comes standard with the utils package, it doesn\'t seem to work for me. I keep on getting the same error:

Answer 1

Did you read the aspell help page ?

If you read it, you will discover the program argument :

program a character string giving the name (if on the system path) or full path of the spell check program to be used, or NULL (default). By default, the system path is searched for aspell, hunspell and ispell (in that order), and the first one found is used.

And you will also read the following in the Details section :

The spell check programs employed must support the so-called Ispell pipe interface activated via command line option -a. In addition to the programs, suitable dictionaries need to be available. See http://aspell.net, http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/ and http://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html, respectively, for obtaining the Aspell, Hunspell and (International) Ispell programs and dictionaries.