[R] .Rprofile under Windoze.

[Charles Annis, P.E.]

Under Windows mine is located here

C:\Program Files\R\R-2.3.1\library\base\R

The file name, however is not .Rprofile, but rather Rprofile


Charles Annis, P.E.

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-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Rolf Turner
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:50 PM
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] .Rprofile under Windoze.

I am (for my sins) having to do some work using R under Windoze.  I
wanted to set up a .Rprofile to control my set-up.  The docs on
.Rprofile say that it can/should be placed in ``the user's home
directory''.  ``An Introduction to R'' observes lucidly that this
concept needs to be clarified under Windoze.

Following the suggestions in An Introduction to R, I tried
putting a .Rprofile in

	"C:\Documents and Settings\rolf\My Documents"

When that didn't work, I tried putting it in the starting directory
(and confirmed that I'd got that right by checking with getwd() and
list.files(all.files=TRUE) ).

The last invocation indicated that the name of the file was *really*
``.Rprofile.txt'' --- although I'd tried to save it as (simply)
``.Rprofile''.  Is that the problem?  If so, how can I persuade
Windoze NOT to stick that damned .txt tag on the end?  (Gawd, but I
***hate*** Windoze!!!)  If that's not the problem, can you suggest
what *is* the problem?

All that .Rprofile(.txt) has in it at the moment is

	options(prompt="Wheee! ")

so that I can easily tell whether it's working.  If I
execute

	> source(".Rprofile.txt")

the prompt does indeed get changed to ``Wheee! '' as it should.

I would appreciate enlightenment.  Ta.

				cheers,

					Rolf Turner
					rolf at math.unb.ca

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