[R] Setting .Rprofile for RStudio on a Windows 7 x64bit

William Dunlap
2017-04-17T15:30:41Z

I should haved added full.names=TRUE to the dir() call.  I you add
that I'd expect that you would see ".../etc/Rprofile.site".  What
do
you see when you do

     writeLines(readLines(".../etc/Rprofile.site")

and
     source(echo=TRUE, ".../etc/Rprofile.site")

(replace the ellipsis by whatever dir(full.names=TRUE,...) showed).
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com


On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 8:24 AM, BR_email
wrote:
> Bill:
> Here's what I got:
>
> dir(c(".", Sys.getenv("HOME"),
R.home("etc")), pattern="Rprofile") [1]
> "Rprofile.site"
>
>
> Bruce Ratner, Ph.D.
> The Significant Statistician?
> (516) 791-3544
> Statistical Predictive Analtyics -- www.DMSTAT1.com
> Machine-Learning Data Mining and Modeling -- www.GenIQ.net
>
>
> William Dunlap wrote:
>>
>> Use the R command
>>    dir(c(".", Sys.getenv("HOME"),
R.home("etc")), pattern="Rprofile")
>> to see if there are any file names with the unwanted ".txt"
and use
>> file.rename() to fix them up.
>> Bill Dunlap
>> TIBCO Software
>> wdunlap tibco.com
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 8:06 AM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at
tibco.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I believe someone already mentioned it, but notepad makes it hard
to
>>> save a file without the ".txt" extension to its name.  R
does not do
>>> anything with .Rprofile.txt, only .Rprofile, so you must figure out
a
>>> way to work around notepad's mangling of the file name.
>>> Bill Dunlap
>>> TIBCO Software
>>> wdunlap tibco.com
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Bruce Ratner PhD <br at
dmstat1.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Bert:
>>>> I used note pad under Administrator. The code:
>>>> options(prompt="R> ")
>>>> set.seed(12345)
>>>>
>>>> Bruce
>>>>
>>>> ______________
>>>> Bruce Ratner PhD
>>>> The Significant Statistician?
>>>> (516) 791-3544
>>>> Statistical Predictive Analytics -- www.DMSTAT1.com
>>>> Machine-Learning Data Mining -- www.GenIQ.net
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Apr 17, 2017, at 10:30 AM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567
at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I cannot add to the instructions that you have already been
given
>>>>> regarding .Rprofile.
>>>>>
>>>>> But what code did you use in your .Rprofile to set the
prompt? The
>>>>> posting guide explicitly requests that you provide your
code, although
>>>>> maybe you already did earlier in this extensive thread.
>>>>>
>>>>> ?options
>>>>>
>>>>> is how it can be set. Did you do this?
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Bert
>>>>>
>>>>> Bert Gunter
>>>>>
>>>>> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people
keep coming along
>>>>> and sticking things into it."
>>>>> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom
County" comic strip )
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 3:06 AM, Bruce Ratner PhD

>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> David:
>>>>>> When I launch Rstudio the effects of the Rprofile do
not show, e.g., I
>>>>>> want the prompt to be "R> " instead of the
default "> ". The former doesn't
>>>>>> show.
>>>>>> Bruce
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ______________
>>>>>> Bruce Ratner PhD
>>>>>> The Significant Statistician?
>>>>>> (516) 791-3544
>>>>>> Statistical Predictive Analytics -- www.DMSTAT1.com
>>>>>> Machine-Learning Data Mining -- www.GenIQ.net
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Apr 16, 2017, at 7:34 PM, David Winsemius
<dwinsemius at comcast.net>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>
>>
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