So, I had two NEARLY identical installations: one working and one not working.
A close comparison of both .emacs files pointed out the problem. For some reason, I deleted the following lines from one of them which caused all of my self-inflicted problems. (require 'package) (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa-stable" . "http://stable.melpa.org/packages/") t) (package-initialize) I guess I thought that these lines only had to do with installing packages. However, there is a comment that precedes these statements which should have tipped me off… ;; Added by Package.el. This must come before configurations of ;; installed packages. Don't delete this line. (require 'package) I guess this proves that working with packages can still be messed up by dummies ;o) I don’t remember having these kinds of problems with the XEmacs packaging system, but I guess I haven’t done that in the last 6 years so maybe I am forgetting these SNAFU. Rodney [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help