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>  I'v installed latest version Emacs - 23.1 (9.0) and downloaded ess-5.8.
>> Then I dragged ess-5.8 in the folder Applications/ESSDIR and created a
>> .emacs file with a line "(load "/ESSDIR/ess-5.8/lisp/ess-site")" using
>> TextWrangler.
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Give the full path and end with .el

(load "/full/path/to/Applications/ESSDIR/ess-5.8/lisp/ess-site.el")

If you are on windows, then the path will also need the drive letter.

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