[ESS] help: how to set up R mode in emacs via ESS

[Stephen Eglen]

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> I am new to ESS and learnt that ESS is the way to go about editing R file with highlighting, coloring in Emacs. Below is the line I put in my .emacs file:
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> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.R$" . ess-mode))

Did you also put something like:

(require 'ess-site)

in your .emacs?