[R] .Rprofile is being executed twice

[Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)]

I think I did that once by accidentally placing the .Rprofile in two
places. In Windows I think that was the directory that contains the R
executable and in My Documents. I think you can also cause this by
setting your working directory in your .Rprofile with setwd() and then
it runs any .Rprofile it finds there too. Whichever way I did it, I had
removed a function from one and still had the second one performing that
function! That blew my mind until I found the second file. Cheers, -Bob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Dan Tenenbaum
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 4:25 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] .Rprofile is being executed twice
> 
> 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?
> Thanks
> Dan
> 
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