[Rd] Ignoring .Rprofile when installing a package

[Jon Clayden]

I would also be interested in knowing what the rationale is for this.

Moreover, it seems that the "standard" (and documented) approach to
this of calling "options(defaultPackages=c(...))" in ~/.Rprofile does
not get ignored when installing. The environment variable approach may
work, but it seems to me that this requires some (educated) guesswork.
Could R CMD INSTALL not ignore the default packages option?

Regards,
Jon


On 16 February 2011 17:25, Brian G. Peterson <brian at braverock.com> wrote:
> On 02/16/2011 10:57 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>
>> The most obvious answer is not to do that. You have not used the
>> standard mechanism to to do that (which should work here as R CMD
>> INSTALL overrides that one). It's all in ?Startup (look for
>> R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES).
>
> Note that R CMD INSTALL is not mentioned at all here.
>
>> The simplest way to ignore ~/.Rprofile is to set R_PROFILE_USER to
>> something else.
>
>>> I've tried R --vanilla CMD INSTALL, but that seems to have no effect.
>>
>> As documented.
>
> Then let's try this from another angle...
>
> Is there a rationale why --vanilla or --no-environ or --no-site-file or
> --no-init-file are *NOT* supported by R CMD INSTALL ?  I don't see any
> reasoning for the inconsistency in the docs anywhere.
>
> If not, would R-core entertain a patch that would handle these options?
>
> This functionality is troublesome in a production installations where we
> *want* our users to have specific packages and environment options set all
> the time, and I need to edit the Rprofile.site file every time I upgrade one
> of these 'production' packages.
>
> Regards,
>
>   - Brian
>
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