Your original email said

 (load "C:/ess/ess-5.13/ess-5.13/lisp/ess-site")
Your second email said
 (load "~/ess/ess-5.13/ess-5.13/lisp/ess-site")

they are not the same.  ESS is not inside your personal directory.
Therefore
you need the absolute pathname (beginning with the "c:/"




On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Li, Preston <Preston.Li@blackrock.com>wrote:

>  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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