In *scratch*, you can type load-path and C-j. Or F1 v load-path return to see its contents. But, it sounds like you might just want a fresh install via MELPA or in your HOME directory
-- Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics Chair ISBA Section on Biostatistics and Pharmaceutical Statistics Institute for Health and Equity, Division of Biostatistics Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus On 3/17/21, 12:16 PM, "Steve Gutreuter" <sgutreu...@gmail.com> wrote: ATTENTION: This email originated from a sender outside of MCW. Use caution when clicking on links or opening attachments. ________________________________ Thanks Rodney, Sysadmins did the installation, which is when I presume everything was byte-compiled. At any rate, setting ess-etc-directory did not result in ESS loading. I still get the message "Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, ess.rd.el". Yet, ess.rd.el is present. Naively, it looks to me as if (add-to-list 'load-path "/apps/x86_64/emacs/ess-18.10.2/") is not being executed. On 3/17/21 11:36 AM, Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help wrote: > Hi Steve: > > Well, maybe you didn’t see my earlier post. But, you > should not need to byte-compile ESS to make it work. > This error has to do with the anticipated directory > structure that is being violated: “ERROR:ess-etc-directory” > You can probably work-around that by something like… > (setq ess-etc-directory “FILL THIS IN ACCORDINGLY”) > -- > Rodney Sparapani, Associate Professor of Biostatistics > Chair ISBA Section on Biostatistics and Pharmaceutical Statistics > Institute for Health and Equity, Division of Biostatistics > Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help__;!!H8mHWRdzp34!p-soddQAA4_I_fQO8MuwRi_Ik93eCNiiuUb3H7Rfl-oJKNu0YfVWY-Hrbr6mx_M$ -- Steve Gutreuter ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help