[ESS] problems trying to install ESS package

[Gustavo Lacerda]

There is only one .emacs file.

The "~" refers to your home directory, and emacs understands this.
To satisfy your curiosity, If you want to know the absolute path to
your home directory, open up a shell and type:  echo $HOME  (if you
use Windows, it's:  echo %HOME%)

But if you use emacs to modify the .emacs, you don't need to worry
about the absolute path. Simply open "~/.emacs", and you will see your
.emacs (if you have one).


FWIW, I don't use (require 'ess-site).  On my .emacs, I only have
(load-file "C:\\progra~1\\emacs\\emacs-22.3\\site-lisp\\ess-5.4\\lisp\\ess-site.el")


Gustavo




On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:03 AM, marlene marchena
<marchena_marlene at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi I started to use Emacs recently (today) and I was trying to install the ESS package without success.
>
> I think I don't understand very well the instructions to install.
>
> First I have to places related to emacs in:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\.emacs.d\auto-save-list
>
> and
>
> C:\Program Files\GNU Emacs\emacs-23.1\site-lisp
>
> Following the instruction (that I understood) I extract the ess.zip in the second file so I have C:\Program Files\GNU Emacs\emacs-23.1\site-lisp\ess-5.5
>
> The step 2 I don't understand.
>         Add the line
>               (require 'ess-site)  Where????
>
>     to ~/.emacs and restart Emacs.
>
>
>
> Do I need to create other file (.emacs) where I will put  (require 'ess-site) inside?
> So I should have C:\Program Files\GNU Emacs\emacs-23.1\site-lisp ~/.emacs
>
> I'm really lost about that, please help me!
>
> Marlene
>
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