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

Sparks, John James jspark4 at uic.edu
Tue Apr 18 15:52:26 CEST 2017


Bruce,

Do you think that you could post the final solution to the problem?  That
way it would be stored with this thread and the next person who has the
same problem would be able to locate the FINAL solution.

--JJS


On Mon, April 17, 2017 12:47 pm, BR_email wrote:
> TO _ALL_:
> THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
> After hours, and hours, and hours, and ... , and hours: Success.
> To all who helped, thanks.
> My quest was minor, but major for me, as I learn from the path of one,
> whether big or small begets another.
>
> I never look down at anyone, except to help him/her up.
>
> With gratitude,
> Bruce
>
> Bruce Ratner, Ph.D.
> The Significant Statisticianâ„¢
> (516) 791-3544
> Statistical Predictive Analtyics -- www.DMSTAT1.com
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>
>
> Peter Dalgaard wrote:
>>> On 17 Apr 2017, at 19:01 , BR_email <br at dmstat1.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Berend: Something looks good, but RStudio still Rprofile still doees
>>> not affect the launch.
>>>
>>>> source(echo=TRUE, "C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents/.Rprofile.site")
>>>> options(prompt="R> ")
>>>> set.seed(12345)
>>>> rm(list=ls())
>>> R>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bruce Ratner, Ph.D.
>>> The Significant Statisticianâ„¢
>>> (516) 791-3544
>>> Statistical Predictive Analtyics -- www.DMSTAT1.com
>>> Machine-Learning Data Mining and Modeling -- www.GenIQ.net
>>>
>>> Berend Hasselman wrote:
>>>> source(echo=TRUE, ""C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents/.Rprofile.site")
>> According to the gospel of St.Henrik, that filename is wrong, and
>> possibly the directory too.
>>
>> So try his suggestions. What is the output (show us!) of
>>
>> normalizePath("./.Rprofile")
>> normalizePath("~/.Rprofile")
>>
>> Assuming that the former is
>>
>> "C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents/.Rprofile"
>>
>> you could try renaming the .Rprofile.site file to that. If need be, use
>> file.rename, as in
>>
>> file.rename(from="C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents/.Rprofile.site",
>> to="C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents/.Rprofile")
>>
>> (and restart, obviously).
>>
>> [I wouldn't set the seed in a .Rprofile file, nor would I use rm()
>> there, but that is a different kettle of fish.]
>>
>
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