[Rd] Rprofile.site function or variable definitions break with R 4.1

[Gabriel Becker]

Hi Andrew and Dirk,

The other question to think about is what was your Rprofile.site doing
before. We can infer from this error that apparently it was defining things
*in the namespace for the base package*. How often is that actually what
you wanted it to do/a good idea?

I haven't played around with it, as I don't use Rprofile.site to actually
create/assign object only, like Dirk, set options or option-adjacent things
(such as .libPaths), but I imagine you could get it to put things into the
global environment or attach a special "local config" entry to the search
path an put things there, if you so desired.

Best,
~G

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 12:41 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org> wrote:

>
> On 12 August 2021 at 15:19, Andrew Piskorski wrote:
> | Ok, but what's the recommended way to actually USE Rprofile.site now?
> | Should I move all my local configuration into a special package, and
> | do nothing in Rprofile.site except require() that package?
>
> Exactly as before. I set my mirror as I have before and nothing changes
>
>   ## We set the cloud mirror, which is 'network-close' to everybody, as
> default
>   local({
>       r <- getOption("repos")
>       r["CRAN"] <- "https://cloud.r-project.org"
>       options(repos = r)
>   })
>
> I cannot help but think that you are shooting the messenger (here
> Rprofile.site) for an actual behaviour change in R itself ?
>
> Dirk
>
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