Re: debugging load failure

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ross Boylan <ross@biostat.ucsf.edu>
> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 13:00:12 -0700
> 
> My .emacs file includes (load "ess-site").  This used to work, but no
> longer seems effective--there is no sign that ESS has been loaded.
> There is also no error, and nothing in *Messages* indicating a problem.
> Other code in .emacs is being evaluated.

So why do you think ess-site is not loaded.  All the signs you
mentioned say otherwise.

You can put

  (message "ess-site start")

at the beginning of your ess-site.el, and see if that message gets
displayed and logged in the *Messages* buffer.