[R] .Rprofile interfering with update.packages()

stephen sefick ssefick at gmail.com
Wed Jul 14 23:22:51 CEST 2010


I know this is a double post, but the subject line was really
misleading.  Sorry again.

This is the first time that I have tried to update packages with a
tinkered around with .Rprofile.  I start R with R --vanilla and it
does not load my .Rprofile, but when I issue the command
update.packages() R downloads the packages as expected, but then seems
to load .Rprofile before compiling the packages sources.  What am I
doing wrong?
kindest regards,

Stephen Sefick

see- Session info output and .Rprofile

Ubuntu 10.04
R 2.11.1

Session info:

R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu


locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8       LC_NUMERIC=C
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.utf8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8
 [5] LC_MONETARY=C             LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8       LC_NAME=C
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C              LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  stats     grid      methods
[8] base

other attached packages:
 [1] gpclib_1.5-1            StreamMetabolism_0.03-3 maptools_0.7-34
 [4] lattice_0.18-8          sp_0.9-64               foreign_0.8-40
 [7] chron_2.3-35            zoo_1.6-3               vegan_1.17-3
[10] ggplot2_0.8.8           proto_0.3-8             reshape_0.8.3
[13] plyr_0.1.9


.Rprofile:
#source USGS graphing function for base data
source("~/R_scripts/USGS.R")
source("~/R_scripts/publication_ggplot2_theme.R")
source("~/R_scripts/llScript.R")


#set help_type
options(help_type="html")

#exit to get around anoying q behavior
exit <- function(save="no"){q(save=save)}

#most used libraries
library(ggplot2)
library(vegan)
library(StreamMetabolism)

#allow gpclib package to be used
gpclibPermit()

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Stephen Sefick
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