How to start ESS?
ESS was installed in our faculties' UNIX-net by our system administrator. At the moment, we have only R installed to be used with ESS, no other statistical software. I understand the "How to start ESS"-part as follows: I simply have to start emacs and then I can start an S-session with M-x S. This gives "no match", which is not very surprising, because S is not installed. But M-x R does as well give "no match".
Well, maybe it is a silly suggestion, but probably your sysadmin didn't edit the .emacs file in your ~/ directory by adding the line (load "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ESS/lisp/ess-site.elc") - which is what I have - or whatever the line for your system would be (if I remember it is different for emacs - I use xemacs - and of course the path would change). It is explained in the ESS README file found in the tar.gz package.
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