[ESS] how to override site install of ESS?

[Rmh]

copy the system site-start.el to your .emacs and change the
ess line.  that way you gdt the other stuff

rich

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On Feb 14, 2011, at 12:57, Scott Otterson <scotto at sharpleaf.org> wrote:

> Yup, running
> 
>   emacs --no-site-file
> 
> does fix the ESS problem -- thanks!
> 
> Unfortunately, this causes other problems because stuff the sysadmins expect
> us to load is missing.  Is there another workaround?
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Scott
> 
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Erik Iverson <eriki at ccbr.umn.edu> wrote:
> 
>> <snip>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>>       However, this procedure doesn't work on my Ubuntu machine at
>>>       work, which has
>>>       ESS 5.7.1 loaded by sysadmin control -- at startup, emacs always
>>>       loads the
>>>       5.7.1 version of ess-site stored in /etc/emacs/site-start.d.
>>>        This appears
>>>       to mean that my .emacs file settings have no effect, and that
>>>       5.7.1 is
>>>       always run instead of, say 5.13.
>>> 
>> 
>> Did you try Rodney's suggestion of not loading the admin's emacs site
>> file?
>> 
>> It seems to me that loading an ancient version of ESS is not something
>> that belongs in the the site-wide Emacs init file...
>> 
>> But sure enough, looking at the line that starts emacs in my openbox
>> config script, I have:
>> 
>> emacs --no-site-file
>> 
>> because of the exact same reason you describe above, I merely
>> forgot I had to do that.  Otherwise, a ~4 year old version of ESS
>> would be loaded for me...
>> 
>> The upshot: Rodney's suggestion should work.
>> 
>> --Erik
>> 
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