[ESS] ESS failing to load from a directory outside the FHS

[Sparapani, Rodney]

In *scratch*, you can type load-path and C-j.
Or F1 v load-path return to see its contents.
But, it sounds like you might just want a fresh install
via MELPA or in your HOME directory 

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Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Chair ISBA Section on Biostatistics and Pharmaceutical Statistics 
Institute for Health and Equity, Division of Biostatistics
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus
 

On 3/17/21, 12:16 PM, "Steve Gutreuter" <sgutreuter using gmail.com> wrote:

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    Thanks Rodney,

    Sysadmins did the installation, which is when I presume everything was
    byte-compiled.

    At any rate, setting ess-etc-directory did not result in ESS loading.  I
    still get the message "Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or
    directory, ess.rd.el".  Yet, ess.rd.el is present. Naively, it looks to
    me as if (add-to-list 'load-path "/apps/x86_64/emacs/ess-18.10.2/") is
    not being executed.


    On 3/17/21 11:36 AM, Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help wrote:
    > Hi Steve:
    >
    > Well, maybe you didn’t see my earlier post.  But, you
    > should not need to byte-compile ESS to make it work.
    > This error has to do with the anticipated directory
    > structure that is being violated: “ERROR:ess-etc-directory”
    > You can probably work-around that by something like…
    > (setq ess-etc-directory “FILL THIS IN ACCORDINGLY”)
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    > Chair ISBA Section on Biostatistics and Pharmaceutical Statistics
    > Institute for Health and Equity, Division of Biostatistics
    > Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus
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