R help - May 2004 - Running scripts automatically from Rgui (Windows)

I am trying to get a script to start automatically
when I run the GUI version of R version 1.9.0, started
from a .bat file (WINDOWS), but I'm getting strange
errors

In version 1.8.1 I was able to run a script
automatically by copying the script into the file
.Rprofile and running Rgui from a .bat script, but in
version 1.9.0 I'm getting errors like:

Error in inherits(x, "factor") : couldn't find
function "winMenuNames"
In addition: Warning message: 
In the method signature for function "contents", class
"environment" has no current definition in:
matchSignature(signature, fdef, where) 
Error in library(Biobase) : .First.lib failed

Does anyone know if anything changed in version 1.9.0
that could explain these errors?

Thanks

Thon


P.S. Below you find the script I use. %1 will contain
the script that I try to run...



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@echo off
copy %1 .Rprofile > copy-output.txt
shift
:Loop
IF "%1" == "" GOTO Continue
set %1=%2
shift
shift
GOTO Loop
:Continue
cat.exe > GS_R_in.txt
"C:\Program Files\R\rw1090\bin\Rgui.exe" --no-save
--no-restore
cat.exe < GS_R_out.txt
del GS_R_in.txt GS_R_out.txt copy-output.txt .Rprofile

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Please do read the NEWS file for R 1.9.0, which not only tells you this 
will happen but also tells you how to do this properly.

On Sun, 23 May 2004, Thon de Boer wrote:
> I am trying to get a script to start automatically
> when I run the GUI version of R version 1.9.0, started
> from a .bat file (WINDOWS), but I'm getting strange
> errors
> 
> In version 1.8.1 I was able to run a script
> automatically by copying the script into the file
> .Rprofile and running Rgui from a .bat script, but in
> version 1.9.0 I'm getting errors like:
> 
> Error in inherits(x, "factor") : couldn't find
> function "winMenuNames"
> In addition: Warning message: 
> In the method signature for function "contents", class
> "environment" has no current definition in:
> matchSignature(signature, fdef, where) 
> Error in library(Biobase) : .First.lib failed
> 
> Does anyone know if anything changed in version 1.9.0
> that could explain these errors?
There is a NEWS file, and this was also in the announcement of 1.9.0. Also
so discussion on R-help at about the time of release. How did you manage
to miss them?

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