Hello,

I've installed 'GNU  Emacs 24.1' in my computer, but I had a hard time to
install 'ESS'. I do see the directory "C:\Program Files\GNU Emacs
24.1\site-lisp" in my computer, but find the next step hard to follow,
e.g., Add the line (require 'ess-site) to ~/.emacs and restart Emacs. I
don't quite understand these instructions. Would you help? Thanks a lot.

Lucy


   1. Extract all the files from ess-VERSION.zip (by double clicking on it
   and selecting “Extract all files” which launches the Folders Extraction
   Wizard) into an ESS sub-directory of the site-lisp directory that exists
   for packages like ESS. If GNU Emacs was installed in the default
   location, then this directory can be found somewhere like C:\Program
   Files\GNU Emacs\emacs-22.x\site-lisp
   2. Add the line

             (require 'ess-site)

   to ~/.emacs and restart Emacs.
   3. If you see a buffer named *ESS*, then the simple instructions were
   most likely successful. If not, then read further.
   4. It could be you have an older version of Emacs or some other problem
   with your installation. Either way, you may need to edit
   C:\ess\ess-VERSION\lisp\ess-site.el manually. If that is the case, then
   you should create a directory just for ESS like C:\ess and unpack
ESSthere. That way, your changes to
   C:\ess\ess-VERSION\lisp\ess-site.el will not be lost if you update Emacs
   later.
   5. Replace the line above with

             (load "C:/ess/ess-VERSION/lisp/ess-site")

   in ~/.emacs and restart Emacs.

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