Re: Need help converting ess package to melpa-ess

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> writes:

> On 19 August 2018 at 15:22, David Bremner wrote:
> | Yes, you can add something like
> | 
> | ;;;###autoload
> | (require 'ess-site)
> | 
> | to debian/debian-autoloads.el
>
> That doesn't do the trick. It falls back to triggering "symbol's value as
> variable is void: ...some ESS variable..." in my ~/.emacs

Oh, this is a generic issue with emacs packages. Try adding
(package-initialize) to the top of your .emacs. This should define the
variables you need.

d