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Rolf Turner

2006-Aug-30 21:49 UTC

[R] .Rprofile under Windoze.

I am (for my sins) having to do some work using R under Windoze.  I
wanted to set up a .Rprofile to control my set-up.  The docs on
.Rprofile say that it can/should be placed in ``the user's home
directory''.  ``An Introduction to R'' observes lucidly that
this
concept needs to be clarified under Windoze.

Following the suggestions in An Introduction to R, I tried
putting a .Rprofile in

	"C:\Documents and Settings\rolf\My Documents"

When that didn't work, I tried putting it in the starting directory
(and confirmed that I'd got that right by checking with getwd() and
list.files(all.files=TRUE) ).

The last invocation indicated that the name of the file was *really*
``.Rprofile.txt'' --- although I'd tried to save it as (simply)
``.Rprofile''.  Is that the problem?  If so, how can I persuade
Windoze NOT to stick that damned .txt tag on the end?  (Gawd, but I
***hate*** Windoze!!!)  If that's not the problem, can you suggest
what *is* the problem?

All that .Rprofile(.txt) has in it at the moment is

	options(prompt="Wheee! ")

so that I can easily tell whether it's working.  If I
execute

	> source(".Rprofile.txt")

the prompt does indeed get changed to ``Wheee! '' as it should.

I would appreciate enlightenment.  Ta.

				cheers,

					Rolf Turner
					rolf at math.unb.ca

BBands

2006-Aug-30 22:04 UTC

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On 8/30/06, Rolf Turner <rolf at erdos.math.unb.ca>
wrote:> I am (for my sins) having to do some work using R under Windoze.  I
> wanted to set up a .Rprofile to control my set-up.  The docs on
> .Rprofile say that it can/should be placed in ``the user's home
> directory''.  ``An Introduction to R'' observes lucidly
that this
> concept needs to be clarified under Windoze.
Saving ".Rprofile" to the R root directory works for me.

On my system that is "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.3.1\"

     jab
-- 
John Bollinger, CFA, CMT
www.BollingerBands.com

If you advance far enough, you arrive at the beginning.

Charles Annis, P.E.

2006-Aug-30 22:06 UTC

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Under Windows mine is located here

C:\Program Files\R\R-2.3.1\library\base\R

The file name, however is not .Rprofile, but rather Rprofile


Charles Annis, P.E.

Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com
phone: 561-352-9699
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http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Rolf Turner
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:50 PM
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] .Rprofile under Windoze.

I am (for my sins) having to do some work using R under Windoze.  I
wanted to set up a .Rprofile to control my set-up.  The docs on
.Rprofile say that it can/should be placed in ``the user's home
directory''.  ``An Introduction to R'' observes lucidly that
this
concept needs to be clarified under Windoze.

Following the suggestions in An Introduction to R, I tried
putting a .Rprofile in

	"C:\Documents and Settings\rolf\My Documents"

When that didn't work, I tried putting it in the starting directory
(and confirmed that I'd got that right by checking with getwd() and
list.files(all.files=TRUE) ).

The last invocation indicated that the name of the file was *really*
``.Rprofile.txt'' --- although I'd tried to save it as (simply)
``.Rprofile''.  Is that the problem?  If so, how can I persuade
Windoze NOT to stick that damned .txt tag on the end?  (Gawd, but I
***hate*** Windoze!!!)  If that's not the problem, can you suggest
what *is* the problem?

All that .Rprofile(.txt) has in it at the moment is

	options(prompt="Wheee! ")

so that I can easily tell whether it's working.  If I
execute

	> source(".Rprofile.txt")

the prompt does indeed get changed to ``Wheee! '' as it should.

I would appreciate enlightenment.  Ta.

				cheers,

					Rolf Turner
					rolf at math.unb.ca

______________________________________________
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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.

BBands

2006-Aug-30 22:11 UTC

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And... If you have/use shortcuts to R, you may also save an
".Rprofile" to whatever directory you name in the "Start
in:" field of
the shortcut. This allows one to have many profiles.

       jab
-- 
John Bollinger, CFA, CMT
www.BollingerBands.com

If you advance far enough, you arrive at the beginning.

Nordlund, Dan (DSHS)

2006-Aug-30 23:35 UTC

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-
> bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Rolf Turner
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:50 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] .Rprofile under Windoze.
> 
> I am (for my sins) having to do some work using R under Windoze.  I
> wanted to set up a .Rprofile to control my set-up.  The docs on
> .Rprofile say that it can/should be placed in ``the user's home
> directory''.  ``An Introduction to R'' observes lucidly
that this
> concept needs to be clarified under Windoze.
> 
> Following the suggestions in An Introduction to R, I tried
> putting a .Rprofile in
> 
> 	"C:\Documents and Settings\rolf\My Documents"
> 
> When that didn't work, I tried putting it in the starting directory
> (and confirmed that I'd got that right by checking with getwd() and
> list.files(all.files=TRUE) ).
> 
> The last invocation indicated that the name of the file was *really*
> ``.Rprofile.txt'' --- although I'd tried to save it as (simply)
> ``.Rprofile''.  Is that the problem?  If so, how can I persuade
> Windoze NOT to stick that damned .txt tag on the end?  (Gawd, but I
> ***hate*** Windoze!!!)  If that's not the problem, can you suggest
> what *is* the problem?
> <<<snip>>>

Rolf,

Whether an extension is automagically added (and if so what) is usually a
function of the program writing the file out.  In MS Windows programs, there
is usually an option in the Save/SaveAs menu called something like "Save As
Type".  To save without an extension you want to make sure that the value
is
'All Files (*.*)', otherwise the program will usually tag on a default
extension.

Hope this is helpful,

Dan

Daniel J. Nordlund
Research and Data Analysis
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
Olympia, WA  98504-5204

Duncan Murdoch

2006-Aug-31 00:01 UTC

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On 8/30/2006 5:49 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:> I am (for my sins) having to do some work using R under Windoze.  I
> wanted to set up a .Rprofile to control my set-up.  The docs on
> .Rprofile say that it can/should be placed in ``the user's home
> directory''.  ``An Introduction to R'' observes lucidly
that this
> concept needs to be clarified under Windoze.
> 
> Following the suggestions in An Introduction to R, I tried
> putting a .Rprofile in
> 
> 	"C:\Documents and Settings\rolf\My Documents"
That's probably the right place.  You can confirm in the R Edit|GUI 
preferences dialog:  it defaults to trying to save or load from the same 
place it would look for .Rprofile.
> 
> When that didn't work, I tried putting it in the starting directory
> (and confirmed that I'd got that right by checking with getwd() and
> list.files(all.files=TRUE) ).
> 
> The last invocation indicated that the name of the file was *really*
> ``.Rprofile.txt'' --- although I'd tried to save it as (simply)
> ``.Rprofile''.  Is that the problem?  If so, how can I persuade
> Windoze NOT to stick that damned .txt tag on the end?  
You can put it in double quotes.  It's really your editor doing this; 
most reasonable editors (but not the ones that come with Windows) are 
configurable to never add the extension.

Another change to Windows defaults that's essential to maintain sanity 
is to tell it to display full filenames, not to hide the .txt in the 
first place.  You do this in an Explorer window by clicking on 
"Tools|Folder options...|View|Hide extensions for known file types" 
(where each of the 4 components in that path is a different kind of 
interface element.  I love the rich Windows user interface!)

Duncan Murdoch

(Gawd, but I> ***hate*** Windoze!!!)  If that's not the problem, can you suggest
> what *is* the problem?
> 
> All that .Rprofile(.txt) has in it at the moment is
> 
> 	options(prompt="Wheee! ")
> 
> so that I can easily tell whether it's working.  If I
> execute
> 
> 	> source(".Rprofile.txt")
> 
> the prompt does indeed get changed to ``Wheee! '' as it should.
> 
> I would appreciate enlightenment.  Ta.
> 
> 				cheers,
> 
> 					Rolf Turner
> 					rolf at math.unb.ca
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> 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.

Richard M. Heiberger

2006-Aug-31 02:03 UTC

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Rolf
> The last invocation indicated that the name of the file was *really*
> ``.Rprofile.txt'' --- although I'd tried to save it as (simply)
> ``.Rprofile''.  Is that the problem?  If so, how can I persuade
> Windoze NOT to stick that damned .txt tag on the end? 
The easiest way is to use a smarter editor.  Emacs is perfectly
happy to name a file .Rprofile and wouldn't dream of appending
an extension to the filename that you specify.

Rich

Petr Pikal

2006-Aug-31 06:09 UTC

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Hi

or you can change

Rprofile.site in etc directory to whatever startup commands you want 
to execute to have the same profile in all sessions.

HTH
Petr




On 30 Aug 2006 at 15:11, BBands wrote:

Date sent:      	Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:11:35 -0700
From:           	BBands <bbands at gmail.com>
To:             	r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject:        	Re: [R] .Rprofile under Windoze.
> And... If you have/use shortcuts to R, you may also save an
> ".Rprofile" to whatever directory you name in the "Start
in:" field of
> the shortcut. This allows one to have many profiles.
> 
>        jab
> -- 
> John Bollinger, CFA, CMT
> www.BollingerBands.com
> 
> If you advance far enough, you arrive at the beginning.
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> 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.
Petr Pikal
petr.pikal at precheza.cz

Prof Brian Ripley

2006-Aug-31 06:50 UTC

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On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Petr Pikal wrote:
> Hi
> 
> or you can change
> 
> Rprofile.site in etc directory to whatever startup commands you want 
> to execute to have the same profile in all sessions.
Please see the warning about this in ?Startup: it is not the same thing as 
putting .Rprofile in your home directory.

Also, many users will not have write permission on R_HOME/etc.

> On 30 Aug 2006 at 15:11, BBands wrote:
> 
> > And... If you have/use shortcuts to R, you may also save an
> > ".Rprofile" to whatever directory you name in the
"Start in:" field of
> > the shortcut. This allows one to have many profiles.
-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

Petr Pikal

2006-Aug-31 07:26 UTC

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Hi

Well I see your point, but let say I would like to load some of my 
functions, libraries I use, some dataset, and set the lattice theme 
to my preferred version.

As I work on different problems and each problem has its separate 
directory I used to copy .Rprofile from one directory to another, but 
recently I find more convenient just to copy my Rprofile.site from 
one version of R to newly installed. Then I am sure I have always the 
same startup regardless of problem I am working on. Am I wrong? Is 
there some other recommended way?

Although I do not have write permission to registry and to some of 
root directories, thank goodness (and Rcore development team :-), I 
am able to install R elsewhere and use it without some sophisticated 
hacking.

Best regards
Petr Pikal

On 31 Aug 2006 at 7:50, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

Date sent:      	Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:50:44 +0100 (BST)
From:           	Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
To:             	Petr Pikal <petr.pikal at precheza.cz>
Copies to:      	r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject:        	Re: [R] .Rprofile under Windoze.
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Petr Pikal wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > or you can change
> > 
> > Rprofile.site in etc directory to whatever startup commands you want
> > to execute to have the same profile in all sessions.
> 
> Please see the warning about this in ?Startup: it is not the same
> thing as putting .Rprofile in your home directory.
> 
> Also, many users will not have write permission on R_HOME/etc.
> 
> 
> > On 30 Aug 2006 at 15:11, BBands wrote:
> > 
> > > And... If you have/use shortcuts to R, you may also save an
> > > ".Rprofile" to whatever directory you name in the
"Start in:"
> > > field of the shortcut. This allows one to have many profiles.
> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South
> Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG,
> UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> 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.
Petr Pikal
petr.pikal at precheza.cz

Prof Brian Ripley

2006-Aug-31 07:32 UTC

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On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Petr Pikal wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Well I see your point, but let say I would like to load some of my 
> functions, libraries I use, some dataset, and set the lattice theme 
> to my preferred version.
> 
> As I work on different problems and each problem has its separate 
> directory I used to copy .Rprofile from one directory to another, but 
> recently I find more convenient just to copy my Rprofile.site from 
> one version of R to newly installed. Then I am sure I have always the 
> same startup regardless of problem I am working on. Am I wrong? Is 
> there some other recommended way?
I use a .Rprofile in home directory (only): works in all startup 
directories and all versions of R (which matters to me as I am forever 
rebuilding R from scratch).
> Although I do not have write permission to registry and to some of 
> root directories, thank goodness (and Rcore development team :-), I 
> am able to install R elsewhere and use it without some sophisticated 
> hacking.
> 
> Best regards
> Petr Pikal
> 
> 
> On 31 Aug 2006 at 7:50, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
> Date sent:      	Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:50:44 +0100 (BST)
> From:           	Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> To:             	Petr Pikal <petr.pikal at precheza.cz>
> Copies to:      	r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject:        	Re: [R] .Rprofile under Windoze.
> 
> > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Petr Pikal wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > or you can change
> > > 
> > > Rprofile.site in etc directory to whatever startup commands you
want
> > > to execute to have the same profile in all sessions.
> > 
> > Please see the warning about this in ?Startup: it is not the same
> > thing as putting .Rprofile in your home directory.
> > 
> > Also, many users will not have write permission on R_HOME/etc.
> > 
> > 
> > > On 30 Aug 2006 at 15:11, BBands wrote:
> > > 
> > > > And... If you have/use shortcuts to R, you may also save an
> > > > ".Rprofile" to whatever directory you name in the
"Start in:"
> > > > field of the shortcut. This allows one to have many
profiles.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> > Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> > University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South
> > Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG,
> > UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
> > 
> > ______________________________________________
> > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> > 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.
> 
> Petr Pikal
> petr.pikal at precheza.cz
> 
-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

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