R help - Apr 2013 - custom startup/welcome message

hi everybody

I wonder if there is a simple way, but not simple would be 
ok too,
to customize info/welcome page at session start time?

what I'd like to do is to put together simple short howto / 
dos & don'ts page for users,
I'm thinking it would be great if it was possible

many thanks

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On Apr 4, 2013, at 6:20, lejeczek <peljasz at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> hi everybody
> 
> I wonder if there is a simple way, but not simple would be 
> ok too,
> to customize info/welcome page at session start time?
Probably easiest to do it by way of some cat() calls in your .Rprofile. See
?Startup for details.

MW
> 
> what I'd like to do is to put together simple short howto / 
> dos & don'ts page for users,
> I'm thinking it would be great if it was possible
> 
> many thanks
> 
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Dear lejeczek,

Re:
> hi everybody
> 
> I wonder if there is a simple way, but not simple would be 
> ok too,
> to customize info/welcome page at session start time?
> 
> what I'd like to do is to put together simple short howto / 
> dos & don'ts page for users,
> I'm thinking it would be great if it was possible



Indeed, you can put all kinds of things in the Rprofile.


I use this:

#  =============================================   my own first-function
.First <- function(){
	cat("\n>>>  R 2.15.2  ? Rprofile van 13-02-2013  ? \n\nFunctions
added:\t sinc()\t permute()\t combine()\n dice(n)\t countif()\t pplot()\t
lplot()\n ln()\t xmatplot()\t ascii()\t chr()\n to.dec()\t
to.hex()\tincr()\tdecr()\n as.sci()\tas.eng()\tnprint()\nVectors added: eps,
ans, xpoints, xcols\nText:lorem\n\n")
cat("Default Packages:",getOption("defaultPackages"))
	}
#  =============================================



This gets printed after R's built-in message.

As this text states, I also put my own functions in the Rprofile. Works fine.

Best wishes,


Franklin
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