[ESS] .help.ESS gets appears only in certain directories

[Rodney Sparapani]

Vitalie Spinu wrote:

> Here are very simple instructions to use SVN:
> 
> -----
> 1: At command prompt, switch to the directory where you would like to
> keep your svn (for example "~/VC/" for Version Control)
> 
>   cd ~/VC
> 
> 2: checkout ESS:
> 
>   svn checkout https://svn.r-project.org/ESS/trunk ESS
> 
> 3: in your .emacs make sure emacs loads SVN version and not the
> installed one. Put this before (load "ess-site.el"):
> 
>   (setq load-path (cons "~/VC/ESS/lisp/" load-path))
>   
> -----
> 
> Next time you would like to update to the newest version, just do
> 
>   svn update
> 
> from the ESS directory.
> 
> 
> How about placing these (or similar) instructions on the ESS web site? 
> 
> Vitalie.
> 

It's there (sort of):

http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/readme.html#Latest-Version

We assume that if you are comfortable with SVN, then you already know 
what you are doing and the peril!

Rodney