R help - May 2013 - retaining comments within functions defined in Rprofile.site

Hi,

I have some functions defined within etc/Rprofile.site which contain
embedded comments, but it seems the comments get stripped out when the
site profile is sourced into the base namespace. I'm thinking I need to
enable options(keep.source=TRUE) somewhere prior to the actual sourcing
of the site profile, but haven't been able to figure it out yet. Does
anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Ben

The help page "?Startup" gives details on the startup procedures and
the
order in which different files, variables, etc. are read/executed.  That
may give you insight into where to set and option so that it is in place
when needed.


On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Benjamin Tyner <btyner@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some functions defined within etc/Rprofile.site which contain
> embedded comments, but it seems the comments get stripped out when the
> site profile is sourced into the base namespace. I'm thinking I need to
> enable options(keep.source=TRUE) somewhere prior to the actual sourcing
> of the site profile, but haven't been able to figure it out yet. Does
> anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
>
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Thank you Duncan; that is a most helpful explanation and suggestion.

On 05/25/2013 09:26 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> Those files are read in a hard-wired way quite early in the startup
> process, and there's no way to enable keep.source on them.  However,
> there's nothing to stop those files from calling source() on another
> file, and using keep.source=TRUE when they do so.  You could probably
> even hack something together so that Rprofile.site sourced itself, but
> it would be pretty easy to get into an infinite loop if you weren't
> careful...
>
>
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Benjamin Tyner <btyner at gmail.com
> <mailto:btyner at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I have some functions defined within etc/Rprofile.site which contain
>     embedded comments, but it seems the comments get stripped out when the
>     site profile is sourced into the base namespace. I'm thinking I
>     need to
>     enable options(keep.source=TRUE) somewhere prior to the actual
>     sourcing
>     of the site profile, but haven't been able to figure it out yet.
Does
>     anyone have any suggestions?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Ben
>
>
>     ______________________________________________
>     R-help at r-project.org <mailto:R-help at r-project.org> mailing
list
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>     PLEASE do read the posting guide
>     http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>     and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
>