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

[BR_email]

Bill, part II:

>source(echo=TRUE, ""C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents/.Rprofile.site") 
Error: unexpected symbol in "source(echo=TRUE, ""C"

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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
  

BR_email wrote:
> Bill:
> Success, almost there:
>
>> writeLines(readLines("C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents/.Rprofile.site")) 
>> options(prompt="R> ")
> set.seed(12345)
> rm(list=ls())
>
> >
>
>
> Yet, still not affecting the launch, as "R>" is not there.
> Any suggestions, please. "So close, yet far away, ... " - Carly Simon
>
>
> 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:
>> No calls please.  Just show the group what .../etc/Rprofile-site 
>> contained.
>> Bill Dunlap
>> TIBCO Software
>> wdunlap tibco.com
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 8:36 AM, BR_email <br at dmstat1.com> wrote:
>>> 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:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ______________________________________________
>>>>>>>> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
>>>>>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>>>>>>>> PLEASE do read the posting guide
>>>>>>>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>>>>>>>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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