you need quotes around the file name
(load "/usr/local/ess/lisp/ess-site")



On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Dylan Canfield <dylan.canfield@colorado.edu
> wrote:

> ess-help,
> I am having trouble getting ess-12.04 to work on my RHEL5 system. Here
> is some information about my setup:
>
> Linux 2.6.18-308.1.1.el5 #1 SMP x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> GNU Emacs 21.4.1
>
> I have added the following to my ~/.emacs file:
> (load /usr/local/ess/lisp/ess-site)
>
>
> However when I start emacs, I get the following message:
> Error in init file: Symbol's value as variable is void:
> /usr/local/ess/lisp/ess\
> -site
>
> Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Dylan Canfield
> dylan.canfield@colorado.edu
>
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