[ESS] help with ESS

[Gustavo Lacerda]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 7:54 PM, sfu012 sfu012 <sfu012 at aucklanduni.ac.nz> wrote:
> HI
> I am just wondering what it means by
>  "Add the line
>
>          (require 'ess-site)
>
>
> to ~/.emacs and restart Emacs"
>
> I dont know what ~/.emacs is when I install ESS
> can you help me out .
> Thanks
> Jason

.emacs is like a configuration file for Emacs. If you have one, it
should contain some code, which is run as soon as Emacs starts (like
AUTOEXEC.BAT in DOS machines).

See the following thread.

Gustavo

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Hi Gustavo,

Finally I installed the ESS package. Thank you very much for your
suggestions that helped me to get there.

Cheers,

Marlene.

> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:41:58 -0800
> Subject: Re: [ESS] problems trying to install ESS package
> From: guse at optimizelife.com
> To: marchena_marlene at hotmail.com
> CC: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
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>
> 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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