[R] Renviron and Rprofile

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Agustin Lobo wrote:

>
> Regarding user's home and working directories,
> is Rprofile just an old name of Renviron?
> or (can) should we have both files with different type
> of definitions?
> (talking about R.1.4.0 in linux).

The files are .Rprofile and .Renviron, and the first has a help entry,
as does Rprofile.  Is something wrong with your help system?

.Renviron sets environment variables
.Rprofile contains R code.


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