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

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2017-04-17T15:24:21Z

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 <br at
dmstat1.com> 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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