The .Rprofile file is processed before all the standard packages are
loaded, that is why you are seeing the error. If you instead run the
command as utils::read.csv or use library or require to manually load
the utils package before calling read.csv then everything should work
for you.
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Christofer Bogaso
<bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi again,
>
> I am trying to build a procedure such that whenever R starts, it will
> read some CSV file.
>
> Therefore I put a code sometime like 'read.csv(...)' in my Rprofile
> file. However if I put this function there then I am getting an error
> saying 'Error: could not find function "read.csv"',
whenever R starts.
>
> So is it the case that, read.csv() function will not work if it put to
> run with Rprofile file?
>
> I got similar error with flush.console() function as well.
>
> Can someone tell me how I can achieve that? My goal is to read some
> CSV file on startup of R.
>
> Thanks for your pointer.
>
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