[R] .Rprofile is being executed twice

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Sat May 3 00:39:41 CEST 2008


On 02/05/2008 4:24 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After updating to R 2.7, my .Rprofile executes twice on startup. I 
> confirmed this by putting in the following line:
> print("starting .Rprofile...")   
> 
> When I start R, I see:
> [1] "starting .Rprofile..."
> [1] "starting .Rprofile..."
> 
> This seems like the obverse of the following FAQ:
> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-did-my-_002eRprofile-stop-working-when-I-updated-R_003f
> 
> But in my case .Rprofile is working, just working twice as much as it 
> should.
> 
> Even if there is nothing in my .Rprofile except that print() statement, 
> it still executes twice.
> 
> What could be causing this?

It doesn't for me, so I think we need more details, such as 
sessionInfo(), and exactly where you put your .Rprofile, and how you 
started R.

Duncan Murdoch



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