R help - May 2008 - .Rprofile is being executed twice

Hi,

After updating to R 2.7, my .Rprofile executes twice on startup. I 
confirmed this by putting in the following line:
print("starting .Rprofile...")   

When I start R, I see:
[1] "starting .Rprofile..."
[1] "starting .Rprofile..."

This seems like the obverse of the following FAQ:
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-did-my-_002eRprofile-stop-working-when-I-updated-R_003f

But in my case .Rprofile is working, just working twice as much as it 
should.

Even if there is nothing in my .Rprofile except that print() statement, 
it still executes twice.

What could be causing this?
Thanks
Dan

On 02/05/2008 4:24 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After updating to R 2.7, my .Rprofile executes twice on startup. I 
> confirmed this by putting in the following line:
> print("starting .Rprofile...")   
> 
> When I start R, I see:
> [1] "starting .Rprofile..."
> [1] "starting .Rprofile..."
> 
> This seems like the obverse of the following FAQ:
>
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-did-my-_002eRprofile-stop-working-when-I-updated-R_003f
> 
> But in my case .Rprofile is working, just working twice as much as it 
> should.
> 
> Even if there is nothing in my .Rprofile except that print() statement, 
> it still executes twice.
> 
> What could be causing this?
It doesn't for me, so I think we need more details, such as 
sessionInfo(), and exactly where you put your .Rprofile, and how you 
started R.

Duncan Murdoch

I think I did that once by accidentally placing the .Rprofile in two
places. In Windows I think that was the directory that contains the R
executable and in My Documents. I think you can also cause this by
setting your working directory in your .Rprofile with setwd() and then
it runs any .Rprofile it finds there too. Whichever way I did it, I had
removed a function from one and still had the second one performing that
function! That blew my mind until I found the second file. Cheers, -Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Dan Tenenbaum
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 4:25 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] .Rprofile is being executed twice
> 
> Hi,
> 
> After updating to R 2.7, my .Rprofile executes twice on startup. I
> confirmed this by putting in the following line:
> print("starting .Rprofile...")
> 
> When I start R, I see:
> [1] "starting .Rprofile..."
> [1] "starting .Rprofile..."
> 
> This seems like the obverse of the following FAQ:
> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-did-my-_002eRprofile-
> stop-working-when-I-updated-R_003f
> 
> But in my case .Rprofile is working, just working twice as much as it
> should.
> 
> Even if there is nothing in my .Rprofile except that print()
statement,
> it still executes twice.
> 
> What could be causing this?
> Thanks
> Dan
> 
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