Hi

I have a new computer operating under Windows 7 and am again facing the
trials of getting Emacs, ESS, R and LateX to work. This time the problem
seems to be around ESS and R (the rest, including spell checking, seems
fine, and R works on its own, but not in ess/macs).

I've been following the instructions on the sites aimed at the less
competent, and have put ess here:

 c:/devel/emacs/site-lisp/ess:

and R here:

c:/devel/R/R-2.10.1/bin:

Running addpm.exe also didn't seem to work quite as I remembered it, and I
had to go and make a short-cut to runemacs.exe. However, Emacs works, I get
a LaTeX environment, and I can check spelling.

I've used the pattern of my previous .emacs files, with modifications
suggested for the newer releases.
In particular, I've tried both versions of the first of the following
sections (unsuccessfully)
==================================
;; ESS

;;(load "C:/devel/emacs/site-lisp/ess/lisp/ess-site")
(require 'ess-site)

;; R
(setq inferior-R-program-name "C:/devel/R/R-2.10.1/bin/Rterm.exe")
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex)
====================================

I tried editing the ess-site.el file (I remember having to do that in
earlier versions), and leaving it as it was (equally unsuccessful).

I then tried deleting the whole lot and downloading the GNU Emacs and ESS -
All-in-one installation file for MS Windows, by Vincent Goulet, but for some
reason, after downloading for several minutes, it went all shy and refused
to save the file (more than once - I did try again). I put a copy of his
site-start.el into the emacs/site-lisp directory and that also didn't
perform magic.

My PATH is:

C:\devel\MiKTeX
2.8\miktex\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\C:\tools\bin;C:\devel\emacs\bin;C:\devel\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\devel\ghostgum\ghostview\gsview\;c:\usr\local\bin;C:\devel\ghostgum\gs\gs8.51\lib;C:\devel\ghostgum\gs\gs8.51\bin;C:\devel\MinGW\bin;c:\devel\Aspell\bin;C:\devel\R\R-2.10.1\bin

I've double, triple, and quadruple-checked spelling everywhere (which means
I've probably overlooked something), and have searched on the Internet for
clues. I saw one other query about Windows 7, but that resolved itself, so
my guess is that it *should* work.

In Emacs, M-x R causes the message: [No match]

and there is no *ESS* buffer.

Any assistance will be extremely gratefully received.

Edith

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