[ESS] need first aid starting with ess on redhat linux

[Stephen Eglen]

Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen writes:
 > Hola!
 > 
 > I read most of the documentation I found, but still I cant get my xemacs 
 > 21.4
 > on redhat 9 with ess (preinstalled) version 5.1.21
 > I can't get it into R mode, when typing M-x R it gets into Rd mode!
 > 
 > (Yes, I know that redhat 9 is old, but that the only linux I got to work 
 > on my
 > hardware so fare. Suse 9.1 definitely does'nt like the hardware).

Have you got

(require 'ess-site)

in your .emacs file?