[ESS] Problem installing ess-12.04

[Dylan Canfield]

Thank you everyone for you help. I got this working by building the
latest version of emacs into /usr/local.

Please consider this case closed.

Regards,
Dylan

> try the full file pathname (with the extension .el)
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>     (load "/usr/local/ess/lisp/ess-site.el")
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Apr 13, 2012, at 17:41, Martin Maechler <[1]maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
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>     On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 23:28, Dylan Canfield
>     <[2]dylan.canfield at colorado.edu> wrote:
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>         After adding the quotes, I get the following error:
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>         Error in init file: Symbol's function definition is void: locate-file
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> 
>     Yes,  and above you mention that your emacs version is 21.4.1
>     Yes, I believe that this is the officially supported  emacs version on the
>     super stable and hence professionally used RHEL5 (Redhat Linux
>     Enterprise version 5).
> 
>     Still, we have been somewhat more reluctant than in the past to support
>     "very old" (I know, this is debatable!) versions of emacs.
> 
>     If I had a bit more time, I would indeed try to help keeping ESS
>     running, at least with all the "old functionality" (i.e. possibly not
>     supporting new stuff such as 'eldoc ...),
>     but I really don't have the time, currently...
> 
>     But I would accept patches .. if you find someone else to do the work,
>     and I could even test them on one of our important servers which runs RHEL5.
> 
>     Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
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>         Thanks for your help,
> 
>         Dylan
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> 
>             you need quotes around the file name
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>             (load "/usr/local/ess/lisp/ess-site")
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>             On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Dylan Canfield <[1][3]dylan.canfield at colorado.edu> wrote:
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>                 ess-help,
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>                 I am having trouble getting ess-12.04 to work on my RHEL5 system. Here
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>                 is some information about my setup:
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>                 Linux 2.6.18-308.1.1.el5 #1 SMP x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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>                 GNU Emacs 21.4.1
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>                 I have added the following to my ~/.emacs file:
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>                 (load /usr/local/ess/lisp/ess-site)
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>                 However when I start emacs, I get the following message:
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>                 Error in init file: Symbol's value as variable is void: /usr/local/ess/lisp/ess\
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>                 -site
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>                 Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
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>                 Regards,
> 
>                 Dylan Canfield
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>                 [2][4][5]dylan.canfield at colorado.edu
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