Hello, I have not been able to find how to have R echo the Rprofile.site contents to the console on start-up. Changing the windoze shortcut to include the '--verbose' option does not show what I am looking for. I would like to see the options and commands listed, in addition to the library() loadings, as they are processed. Examples of the type of options I like and shortcut-commands (aliases) that I collect to shrink my keystroke count are: options(digits=2) options(graphics.record=TRUE) # show head and tail together so <- function(x, n=20) { print(head(x, n)) ; print(tail(x, n)) } # shorthand for part of Sys.info() and sessionInfo() si <- function() { Sys.info()[c(1,2,3,5)] ; sessionInfo() } I would like to view these as processed when I am changing options and adding aliases so that I may know which parts are successfully/properly defined. Does the same process work for all of Rprofile.site, .Rprofile, .First, .Last (, etc.?) profile files? Is there a 'best practice' on which of the profile files one should use? I use only the Rprofile.site since I am the only user on my PC. Thanx, DaveT. ************************************* Silviculture Data Analyst Ontario Forest Research Institute Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources david.john.thompson at ontario.ca http://ontario.ca/ofri ************************************* Sys.info() sysname release version machine "Windows" "XP" "build 2600, Service Pack 2" "x86" sessionInfo() R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252;LC_MONETARYEnglish_Canada.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252 attached base packages: [1] datasets grDevices splines grid graphics stats tcltk utils methods base other attached packages: [1] ggplot2_0.6 colorspace_0.95 RColorBrewer_1.0-2 MASS_7.2-42 proto_0.3-8 reshape_0.8.0 car_1.2-8 svSocket_0.9-5 [9] svIO_0.9-5 R2HTML_1.59 svMisc_0.9-5 svIDE_0.9-5 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.7.0