[R] Setting .Rprofile for RStudio on a Windows 7 x64bit

[BR_email]

Bill:
I feel you are nailing it for me.
Can I please call you, but I am getting a little lost, and losing your 
valuable help?
Bruce

Bruce Ratner, Ph.D.
The Significant Statistician™
(516) 791-3544
Statistical Predictive Analtyics -- www.DMSTAT1.com
Machine-Learning Data Mining and Modeling -- www.GenIQ.net
  

William Dunlap wrote:
> I should haved added full.names=TRUE to the dir() call.  I you add
> that I'd expect that you would see ".../etc/Rprofile.site".  What do
> you see when you do
>
>       writeLines(readLines(".../etc/Rprofile.site")
>
> and
>       source(echo=TRUE, ".../etc/Rprofile.site")
>
> (replace the ellipsis by whatever dir(full.names=TRUE,...) showed).
> Bill Dunlap
> TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 8:24 AM, BR_email <br at dmstat1.com> wrote:
>> Bill:
>> Here's what I got:
>>
>> dir(c(".", Sys.getenv("HOME"), R.home("etc")), pattern="Rprofile") [1]
>> "Rprofile.site"
>>
>>
>> Bruce Ratner, Ph.D.
>> The Significant Statistician™
>> (516) 791-3544
>> Statistical Predictive Analtyics -- www.DMSTAT1.com
>> Machine-Learning Data Mining and Modeling -- www.GenIQ.net
>>
>>
>> William Dunlap wrote:
>>> Use the R command
>>>     dir(c(".", Sys.getenv("HOME"), R.home("etc")), pattern="Rprofile")
>>> to see if there are any file names with the unwanted ".txt" and use
>>> file.rename() to fix them up.
>>> Bill Dunlap
>>> TIBCO Software
>>> wdunlap tibco.com
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 8:06 AM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com> wrote:
>>>> I believe someone already mentioned it, but notepad makes it hard to
>>>> save a file without the ".txt" extension to its name.  R does not do
>>>> anything with .Rprofile.txt, only .Rprofile, so you must figure out a
>>>> way to work around notepad's mangling of the file name.
>>>> Bill Dunlap
>>>> TIBCO Software
>>>> wdunlap tibco.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Bruce Ratner PhD <br at dmstat1.com> wrote:
>>>>> Bert:
>>>>> I used note pad under Administrator. The code:
>>>>> options(prompt="R> ")
>>>>> set.seed(12345)
>>>>>
>>>>> Bruce
>>>>>
>>>>> ______________
>>>>> Bruce Ratner PhD
>>>>> The Significant Statistician™
>>>>> (516) 791-3544
>>>>> Statistical Predictive Analytics -- www.DMSTAT1.com
>>>>> Machine-Learning Data Mining -- www.GenIQ.net
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Apr 17, 2017, at 10:30 AM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I cannot add to the instructions that you have already been given
>>>>>> regarding .Rprofile.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But what code did you use in your .Rprofile to set the prompt? The
>>>>>> posting guide explicitly requests that you provide your code, although
>>>>>> maybe you already did earlier in this extensive thread.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ?options
>>>>>>
>>>>>> is how it can be set. Did you do this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- Bert
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bert Gunter
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
>>>>>> and sticking things into it."
>>>>>> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 3:06 AM, Bruce Ratner PhD <br at dmstat1.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> David:
>>>>>>> When I launch Rstudio the effects of the Rprofile do not show, e.g., I
>>>>>>> want the prompt to be "R> " instead of the default "> ". The former doesn't
>>>>>>> show.
>>>>>>> Bruce
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ______________
>>>>>>> Bruce Ratner PhD
>>>>>>> The Significant Statistician™
>>>>>>> (516) 791-3544
>>>>>>> Statistical Predictive Analytics -- www.DMSTAT1.com
>>>>>>> Machine-Learning Data Mining -- www.GenIQ.net
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Apr 16, 2017, at 7:34 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>>>>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>>>
>>>
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