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[RFC = Request for Comments] { Yes, the documentation for .Renviron is really not there (but the FAQ...); the rest is in ?Startup } In R's Startup (on Unix only??) {unless --no-environ is specified} ~/.Renviron (if there) is read as an 'sh' script before R is called, then R looks ((for the site-wide Rprofile and then)) for .Rprofile in the current directory and then for

Hi, Main objective: Let Rgui find my ~/.Rprofile and ~/.Renviron files, where ~ is equal to getwd("~"). I have few comments/questions: (A) On my WinXP Pro installation, the system environment variable 'HOME' is not availble to R, e.g. Sys.getenv("HOME") is empty. I believe this is default case (correct me if I'm wrong). However, if I set the "Start

I am having difficulty coming to grips with Appendix B.2 of the otherwise very useful "An Introduction to R" and the related help file for Startup. I am running RGui 1.6.0 on a Windows 2000 machine from the default installation. How the concepts discussed in B.2 and the Startup help file relate to what I see on my machine is something of a mystery. I quote from the Startup file:

Dear Help, Suppose I have a character vector. x <- c("Bob", "loves", "Sally") I want to combine it into a single string: "Bob loves Sally" . paste(x) yields: paste(x) [1] "Bob" "loves" "Sally" The following function combines the character vector into a string in the way that I want, but it seems somewhat inelegant.

Dear R Users, I want to write a function that applies to the dataframe and variables that were used in a previous call to lm or aov. In order to do this, I need to write a function that applies to the output of lm or aov, and yields the names of the dataframe and variables that were used in the lm or aov analysis. For example, suppose that I give the command: aov.out <- aov( Rt ~

I have run into a general problem with subsetting of which the following is a simple example. Suppose that x <- c(5, NA, 7, 5, NA, 3) y <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) I want to extract the values of y for which x = 5, but y[x==5] yields > y[x==5] [1] 1 NA 4 NA I find that y[!is.na(x) & x==5] yields the desired result: > y[!is.na(x) & x==5] [1] 1 4 but I am wondering whether

Dear R Help, I am trying to create a boolean vector that is TRUE whenever a particular value occurs in a numeric vector, and FALSE otherwise. For example, suppose that > y <- c(5, 2, 4, 3, 1) > y [1] 5 2 4 3 1 and suppose that I want to find where 3 occurs in y. Then, the following yields the solution: > y == 3 [1] FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE FALSE My problem arises when the

A student of mine wants to use R to do some nonmetric multidimensional scaling. According to the R FAQ, there's a package called pcurve that computes multidimensional scaling solutions, but I was not able to locate it the contrib page (I am a Windows user with R version 1.4.1). Can anyone tell me whether it is possible to do nonmetric multidimensional scaling with R, and if so, how? John

Dear R-Help, I'm using R version 1.6.0 on a Windows computer. I am trying to create a function that, among other things, constructs strings that refer to Windows files, e.g., I might want to construct a string like 'c:\work\part1.txt'. I have found that the following does not work. > paste("c:", "\", "work", "\", "part1.txt",

ISSUE: It looks like Rgui.exe never processes ~/.Renviron - only ./.Renviron. REPRODUCIBLE EXAMPLE: On Windows, create the following ~/.Renviron and ~/.Rprofile files: C:\Users\alice> Rscript -e "cat('FOO=123\n', file='~/.Renviron')" C:\Users\alice> Rscript -e "cat('print(Sys.getenv(\'FOO\'))', file='~/.Rprofile')" and launch

Dear R-Help, Suppose I have a character matrix, e.g., (ch.mat <- matrix(c('a','s','*','f','w','*','k','*','*','f','i','o'), ncol=3)) When I convert 'ch.mat' to a dataframe, the columns are converted to factors: (d1 <- data.frame(ch.mat)) mode(d1[,1]) is.factor(d1[,1]) To prevent

I just installed R-2.3.1pat under Windows XP as well as the associated RWinEdt. If I start RGui from its shortcut (but do _not_ also start RWinEdt) and then try to execute demo() or help(), I get a RWinEdt pop-up error window with message: File "D:\WP\WinEdtData\WinEdt\D:/WP/WinEdtData/WinEdt/R.ini" does not exist! Qualifier -e/-E does not specify an existing file! First

I am investigating how well R/tcltk is supported on different system and I ran into the same problem as Christian Schulz reported on February 7, 2002. I am using [R] v1.4.1 on WinMe and ActiveTcl 8.3.2. Loading tcltk within Rgui works just fine and both demo(tkdensity) and demo(tkttest) works as expected. However, when I start R from my Cygwin terminal dyn.load() fails to load the library: % R

Dear R-users, I am learning to use R 1.3.1 on a Pentium running Windows '98. I'm puzzled that several statistical procedures, t.test and chisq.test, do not appear to be available on R version 1.3.1. For example, if I type "t.test", I get the reply, "Object "t.test" not found". Is there a package that I have to load in order to have access to these

I'm new to R, so apologies if the answer to my question is very obvious to everyone else! I use the carbon version of R (1.5.1), not the Darwin version. After a bit of a battle, I'm getting to grips with using R, and really getting to like it, but I'm still having trouble customising startup the way I'd like it. Reading ?Startup, I see that I can specify some commands to be run

I'm using R 1.4.1 under Windows 2000 and am experiencing difficulty installing a package. I've included an example output using Rcmd build, but the same problem occurs with Rcmd check and Rcmd INSTALL. The error (make[1]: /bin/sh.exe: Command not found) is not a new one - it's referenced in readme.packages among other locations. I've placed a copy of sh.exe in C:\bin, but it

Hi! Two questions: 1.-I am trying to put Tcl/tk to work. I keep getting the following: >Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) : > unable to load shared library "C:/RW1041/library/tcltk/libs/tcltk.dll": >LoadLibrary failure: No se puede hallar uno de los archivos de biblioteca necesarios para ejecutar esta aplicación. >Error in library(tcltk) :

I am not sure if this is already known. I checked BUGS and found some references to similar behavior when R_HOME is set? Here is what I get: (1) Fresh build of 1.4.1 under Linux/RH-7.2. All tests pass. > R CMD check ctest * checking for working latex ... OK * using log directory `/home/andyj/stat/R-1.4.1/library/ctest.Rcheck' Installing *source* package `ctest'

Hello I am a newbie. I had my R upgraded from 2.7.1 to 2.7.2 and in doing so I decided to install all 2.7 versions under c:\program files\R\2.7 from now on (2.7.1 is located under .\2.7.1) Although I don't like the idea (I am running Vista), I have edited etc\Renviron.site to contain: R_USER=c:/Users/eduardo/Documents/R R_LIBS_USER=c:/Users/eduardo/Documents/R/win-library/2.7 As far as

Hi, I am interested in customizing the installation of R. I have gone through the ?R Installation and Administration? manual. But some of the stuff is not clear to me and I would like to get clarifications on the following points (for a Windows installation with R_HOME=C:\\R\\R-2.9.1 ) : 1. I understand that I need to create a file, .Renviron with the following path : R_HOME\\etc\\.Renviron where