Hello
 
I have sent this query twice to 'ess-help-request@stat.math.ethz.ch', as
recommended in the ESS documentation, and each time it has been bounced. I
don't know whether this is the right place for it; if not, could someone
please tell me where to ask.
 
I am a complete beginner with Emacs and ESS - I am installing it just
because it is recommended in the R help files. I have just installed GNU
Emacs version 23.1 today, and I am trying to install ESS 5.4 on top of it.
Emacs seems to start OK, but I get lost trying to follow the installation
for ESS.

My operating system is MS Windows XP with SP2. I have downloaded the ESS zip
file ess-5.4.zip and unpacked it into the directory c:\Program
files\Emacs\emacs\emacs-23.1\site-lisp. The next step of the instructions
for Windows installation reads:

2. Add the line

(require 'ess-site)

to `~/.emacs' and restart Emacs.

My problem is that I don't know what `~/.emacs' refers to. I have searched
the whole of my hard disk for a file with the extension .emacs, or for any
file containing the text 'emacs', without success. The fact that `~/.emacs'
includes the slash, rather than the backslash, makes me wonder whether this
instruction belongs in the Unix installation instructions (where exactly the
same words are found) and there should be something different for Windows.

Could you please tell me where to find `~/.emacs' on my system?

Many thanks

Peter Kenny


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