Thank you for your quick reply.  I verified that I do have 2 levels of
ess-5.13 and as such I created ~/.emacs and in there put:
(load "~/ess/ess-5.13/ess-5.13/lisp/ess-site")
 
but afterwards I fired up GNU emacs again but still no *ESS* recognition

________________________________

From: Richard M. Heiberger [mailto:rmh@temple.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 4:05 PM
To: Li, Preston
Cc: ess-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [ESS] ESS installation (Windows) problem


Windows itself won't create names beginning with ".".  If you create
that file name
inside emacs, it will exist.  The "~" is the convention for your home
directory.
Open the file 
C-x C-f ~/.emacs <RET>
Emacs will create the file if it isn't already there.
Add the correct load statement for your machine and then save it with
C-x C-s
Are you sure that you have two levels of ess-5.13?  Usually only one
level
is in the path.

The ESS instructions for Windows are correct.  You must follow them
absolutely
literally.



On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Li, Preston <Preston.Li@blackrock.com>
wrote:


	Hi,
	
	I am on Windows XP and have both GNU Emacs 21.3.1 installed as
well as
	the latest ESS 5.13 unpacked as follow:
	
	C:/ess/ess-5.13/ess-5.13/
	C:/Program Files/GNU EMACS/site-lisp/
	
	The installation instructions at
	http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/readme.html suggests adding
(load
	"C:/ess/ess-5.13/ess-5.13/lisp/ess-site") to ~/.emacs
	
	Where exactly should the .emacs be?  Does it already exist or do
I have
	to create it.  I only see one file (subdirs.el) under C:/Program
	Files/GNU EMACS/site-lisp/
	
	Also, in Windows (as opposed to Unix) I thought file names
starting with
	a "." is prohibited, no?
	
	Please advise.  Thanks.
	
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