[ESS] Error: could not find function ".ess.help"

[Vitalie Spinu]

No no, ESSR is not a package anymore. It was only for a short period of
time. Now it is a bunch of code which we are attaching at runtime. After
long trial and deliberation we decided that the current state is an
optimal solution.

[...]

 > I think the problem is with make install because when I look in *ESS*
 > buffer I see the following but there is no ESSR directory installed in
 > ess directory

 > load-ESSR cmd:
 > local({
 > source('/usr/local/share/emacs/etc/ess/ESSR/R/.load.R', local=TRUE) #define
 > load.ESSR('/usr/local/share/emacs/etc/ess/ESSR/R')})

This is clearly wrong. What is the value of ess-etc-directory for you?

 > So I simply fixed this with a hack by linking the missing ESSR
 > directory and everything works fine

There is something wrong with make install indeed. 

Thanks for figuring this out.

    Vitalie