The version is 24.1.1. Sorry I made a typo.

I left office frustrated yesterday and re-logon today to check the version,
ess works! Probably I need to do a refresh for the configuration to work.

Btw, the features outputs are, is the ess-site I need to look for?
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features is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Its value is
(time-date ido ess-toolbar ess-mouse mouseme thingatpt browse-url ess-menu
speedbar sb-image ezimage dframe assoc ess-swv ess-noweb
noweb-font-lock-mode ess-bugs-l essd-els ess\
-sas-d ess-sas-l ess-sas-a shell pcomplete ess-arc-d ess-vst-d ess-xls-d
ess-lsp-l ess-sta-d ess-sta-l cc-vars cc-defs make-regexp ess-sp6-d
ess-sp5-d ess-sp3-d ess-r-d ess-tra\
cebug advice advice-preload compile cl ess-developer ess-r-args eldoc
help-fns ess-s-l ess-inf ess-utils comint ansi-color ring ess-mode
noweb-mode edmacro kmacro ess ess-custo\
m regexp-opt executable easymenu ess-compat ess-site tooltip ediff-hook
vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image
fringe lisp-mode register page me\
nu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax
facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese
tibetan thai tai-viet lao kore\
an japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian
cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev
minibuffer loaddefs button faces c\
us-face files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages
mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process
dynamic-setting x multi-t\
ty emacs)


Documentation:
A list of symbols which are the features of the executing Emacs.
Used by `featurep' and `require', and altered by `provide'.
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Thank you so much for helping me! I am not sure if this thread will be
useful for others. Shall I delete it?

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit@gmail.com> wrote:

>  >> Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
>   >> on Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:18:26 +0100 wrote:
>
>  >> I am not a admin so I have to install both emacs and ess to my home
>  >> directory. I firstly installed latest emacs 21.4.1 to ~/emacs. It works
>  >> fine.
>  > Do you mean 21.4.1 or 24.1?
>
> :) if it's 24 it should be something wrong with the installation of
> emacs. Do C-h v features RET and see if you have "files" in there;
> locate-file is part of that library. On all my emacses it's loaded by
> default.
>
> Otherwise do (require 'files) before ess loads.
>
> Vitalie.
>
>

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