Bug#507510: Bug report 'ess: fails setting up'

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Christian,

It looks like that there is a delay with the bug reporting system -- I still
have not received your initial bug report as an email (but noticed it via the
web aggregation).

I have a few questions about the bug report. On two different systems, ess
5.3.10 installed just fine for me. This covered emacs21, emacs22 and
emacs-snapshot.  Plus, given the moderately large user base, I would have
heard from others if there were systematic / reproducible issues.

So I suspect that it may be something local to your machine.  Could you see
if modifying your ~/.emacs or site-wide installation has any effect?  You can
try the installtion on its own via

    /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install ess

It may be a side-effect with some emacs / elisp code I do not have installed
at which point we could sort out with upstream whether it is a bug in ess or
the other package.

I hope we can sort this out in no time.

Cheers, Dirk

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