[ESS] Cannot open load file: ess-emcs

[Kevin Murphy]

Ahh, I got it to work. The problem was not to do with using 5.2.0, but
because I loaded the wrong version of ess-site.el.

Specifically, following the instuctions in
   http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Books/Companion/ESS/
I downloaded his ess-site.el and put it in 
   C:\Program Files\XEmacs\xemacs-packages\lisp\ess
and then added this line to my ~/.xemacs/init.el
  (load "C:/Program Files/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/ess/ess-site")
This failed as I explained in my last email.

However, I eventually discovered in comment 4 of the README file this remark:

"Windows users will usually be able to use the `lisp/ess-site.el'
     as distributed.  Only rarely will changes be needed"

This told me where the original ess-site.el file was.
So I changed my init.el file to read
   (load "C:/Program
Files/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/ess/ess-5.2.9/lisp/ess-site")
and it started working.


I have to say that I found the installation instructions amazingly opaque.
So I will  put my own insturcitons for my students at
  http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Software/ESS.html

Kevin






On 8/29/05, A.J. Rossini <blindglobe at gmail.com> wrote:
> You definitely want to use ESS-5.2.8 or 5.2.9 if it's released.  5.2.0 is
> almost a year old and buggy. 
>   
> best, 
> -tony 
> 
> 
>   
> On 8/30/05, Kevin Murphy <murphyk at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I want to use ESS inside Xemacs on WinXP.
> > 
> > I followed the instructions at
> > ESS and XEmacs for Windows Users of R (by John Fox) 
> > http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Books/Companion/ESS/
> > which is linked to by
> >   http://stat.ethz.ch/ESS/
> > 
> > I added the following file to my .xemacs/init.el file
> > 
> > (load "C:/Program
> Files/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/ess/ess-site")
> > 
> > However, this command causes an error, because ess-site.el has the line
> > (require 'ess-emcs)
> > which does not seem to exist. (I downloaded ess-5.2.0.)
> > 
> > This issue does not seem to have come up in any of the previous threads...
> > 
> > Please help
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Kevin
> > 
> > ______________________________________________ 
> > ESS-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
> > 
>  
> 
> 
> -- 
> best,
> -tony
> 
> "Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can
> easily
> roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).
> 
> A.J. Rossini
>  blindglobe at gmail.com