[Rd] R_PROFILE_USER

[peter dalgaard]

> On 05 Dec 2015, at 18:07 , arnaud gaboury <arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In my shell environment, I have set a path to R_PROFILE_USER. The
> file, Rprofile.R, is a collection of small hacks.
> 
> I want to build rstudio-server from source. Best is to $ unset
> R_PROFILE_USER before. Unfortunately, this has no effect on my system.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------
> poisonivy at poppy ➤➤ ~ % R
> 
> *** Successfully loaded .Rprofile ***
> 
> Welcome back poisonivy
> working directory is: /home/poisonivy
> poisonivy at poppy [R]
> -------------------------------------
> 
> As you can see, R is still behaving like the profile is used. What is
> annoying, is that Cmake will at one point not find my LibR. Error
> message: missing LIBR_LIBRARIES). The Cmake command is this one:
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> % R --slave --no-save -e "cat(R.home('lib'))"
> 
> *** Successfully loaded .Rprofile ***
> 
> /usr/lib64/R/libGoodbye poisonivy Sat Dec  5 18:03:06 2015
> ----------------------------------------------
> 
> and as you can see, the result is polluated by my profile. I can't
> edit Cmake file to add "--vanilla" as they are generated each time I
> start cmake.
> 
> Even deleting my Rprofile.R file, the environment still persists. I
> have no idea why this behavior.
> 
> Any hints why I can't unset my profile user ?


Umm, it said that it loaded .Rprofile, not Rprofile.R. Any chance that you have similar code in two places? (~/.Rprofile and ./.Rprofile being the most obvious suspects).

-pd

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