[R] .Rprofile under Windoze.

[Nordlund, Dan (DSHS)]

> -----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 2:50 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?
> 
<<<snip>>>

Rolf,

Whether an extension is automagically added (and if so what) is usually a
function of the program writing the file out.  In MS Windows programs, there
is usually an option in the Save/SaveAs menu called something like "Save As
Type".  To save without an extension you want to make sure that the value is
'All Files (*.*)', otherwise the program will usually tag on a default
extension.

Hope this is helpful,

Dan

Daniel J. Nordlund
Research and Data Analysis
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
Olympia, WA  98504-5204