[R] Changing Gui preferences

[Murray Jorgensen]

Hi Henrik,

thanks for this. My error had been in not accepting the location "C:\"
suggested by R for Rconsole.

It seems that my R_USER was indeed C: so I was rejecting the correct 
place for Rconsole:

 > Sys.getenv("R_USER")
R_USER
   "C:"

Cheers,

Murray\
Henrik Bengtsson wrote:

> Hi, a quick reply to help troubleshoot. The below (is "minimal" and)
> works on both R v1.8.1 and R v1.9.0 on WinXP Pro:
> 
>>From http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R/Rgui/:
> 
> "By default all plot windows (The "Figure 2" etc windows) opened in
> Rgui are placed within the Rgui frame. Some people prefer this others
> don't. An option is to let the main window and all plot windows live
> separately. See screenshots to the right. 
> 
> This is done by selecting "GUI preferences..." in the "Edit" menu.
> Then select "SDI" (instead of "MDI") next to "Single or multiple
> windows". The click "Save" and accept the suggested pathname
> ("Rconsole") by clicking "Save" in the opened file dialog. The click
> "Cancel" (yes, it is indeed ok). Restart R to get effectuate the
> settings."
> 
> My R_USER and HOME as seen by R are:
> 
> 
>>Sys.getenv("R_USER")
> 
>                           R_USER 
> "C:\\Documents and Settings\\hb" 
> 
>>Sys.getenv("HOME")
> 
> HOME 
>   "" 
> 
> Maybe it helps you on the way...
> 
> Henrik Bengtsson
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
>>[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Murray 
>>Jorgensen
>>Sent: den 24 april 2004 11:05
>>To: Prof Brian Ripley; R-help
>>Subject: Re: [R] Changing Gui preferences
>>
>>
>>Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Murray Jorgensen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I want to modify my Gui preferences to get rid of the MDI 
>>
>>toolbar and
>>
>>>>status bar. [ Under Windows XP and R 1.8.1 and 1.9.0.]
>>>>
>>>>When I uncheck the boxes and click "apply" I am told to save the
>>>>preferences and the changes will take effect when 
>>
>>restarting R. I click 
>>
>>>>"save" and a box comes up to ask me to save Rconsole (I'm 
>>
>>not sure where 
>>
>>>>this should be saved but I navigate my way to where the old 
>>
>>Rconsole was 
>>
>>>>and save on top of it.
>>>
>>>
>>>?Rconsole tells you where the copy in use is saved.
>>
>>What it says is:
>>
>>      There are system copies of these files in 'R_HOME\etc'. 
>> Users can
>>      have personal copies of the files: these are looked for in the
>>      location given by the environment variable 'R_USER'. The
> 
> system
> 
>>      files are read only if a corresponding personal file is 
>>not found.
>>
>>      If the environment variable 'R_USER' is not set, the R 
>>system sets
>>      it to 'HOME' if that is set (stripping any trailing slash),
>>      otherwise to '{HOMEDRIVE}{HOMEPATH}' if 'HOMEDRIVE' is set
>>      otherwise to the working directory.
>>
>>Now under Control Panel>System>Advanced I find a box listing 
>>environmental variables. I find no R_HOME or R_USER listed there so 
>>presumably they are not set.
>>
>>I'm not sure how to find 'HOME' but I presume that it is the 
>>path that 
>>appears in the 'Change directory' box when you open this through the
> 
> 
>>gui. In which case for me 'HOME' is
>>
>>C:\apps\R\rw1090
>>
>>Now I have 3 versions of Rconsole near here. They are in
>>
>>C:\apps\R\rw1090\etc
>>C:\apps\R\rw1090           and
>>C:\apps\R
>>
>>I still don't know how to change my Gui preferences!
>>
>> >[...]
>>
>>Murray
>>
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> 
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