R devel - Sep 2005 - Rprofile not executed in R 2.2.0 alpha for Windows

Dear list members (esp. Duncan),

I've run into the following curious problem with Version 2.2.0 alpha for
Windows: Options in the Profile file in R's etc directory don't appear
to be
set. (I habitually uncomment options(chmhelp=TRUE), to no effect in this
case.)  As far as I can see, the only thing non-standard about my
installation is that I put R 2.2.0 alpha under c:\R rather than under
c:\Program Files.

Regards,
 John

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Bug report info:

Version:
 platform = i386-pc-mingw32
 arch = i386
 os = mingw32
 system = i386, mingw32
 status = alpha
 major = 2
 minor = 2.0
 year = 2005
 month = 09
 day = 14
 svn rev = 35574
 language = R

Windows XP Professional (build 2600) Service Pack 2.0

Locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

Search Path:
 .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:stats, package:graphics,
package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, Autoloads, package:base

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John Fox
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4M4
905-525-9140x23604
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox

Do you mean R_HOME/etc/Rprofile (not Profile)?  That is not supposed to be 
executed: see ?Startup.  See the NEWS item

     o   R_HOME/etc/Rprofile is no longer looked for if
         R_HOME/etc/Rprofile.site does not exist.  (This has been
         undocumented since R 1.4.0.)

We will rename the file to Rprofile.site (and update it).

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, John Fox wrote:
> Dear list members (esp. Duncan),
>
> I've run into the following curious problem with Version 2.2.0 alpha
for
> Windows: Options in the Profile file in R's etc directory don't
appear to be
> set. (I habitually uncomment options(chmhelp=TRUE), to no effect in this
> case.)  As far as I can see, the only thing non-standard about my
> installation is that I put R 2.2.0 alpha under c:\R rather than under
> c:\Program Files.
>
> Regards,
> John
>
> -----------------------
>
> Bug report info:
>
> Version:
> platform = i386-pc-mingw32
> arch = i386
> os = mingw32
> system = i386, mingw32
> status = alpha
> major = 2
> minor = 2.0
> year = 2005
> month = 09
> day = 14
> svn rev = 35574
> language = R
>
> Windows XP Professional (build 2600) Service Pack 2.0
>
> Locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> Search Path:
> .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:stats, package:graphics,
> package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, Autoloads, package:base
>
> --------------------------------
> John Fox
> Department of Sociology
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario
> Canada L8S 4M4
> 905-525-9140x23604
> http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
>
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>
>
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