[R] Assigning functions in Rprofile

[Robert King]

I use the ugly hack shown below as my .Rprofile (mainly because I couldn't
find any other way to spawn a new mozilla window on starting R or calling
help.start(), but then send all the help html documents to that new
window).

With a recent change from a cvs checkout to the released 1.9.0 I find that
the new hs() appears if there is nothing of that name in .RData, but if
there is the old hs() there, it just stays.

What is the cause of this?

Thanks,
Robert.

I'm using a debian i386 system.

.Rprofile
=========
library(gld)
options(pager="less",CRAN="ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/cran")
hs <- function(){
if (nchar(system("echo $DISPLAY",intern=T))==0) # no X
        {options(htmlhelp=FALSE)
        ret <- "no X"}
else    {system("mozilla") # we have X - I'm starting this to get a new
        # window for the R session, without starting a new window every
time
        options(pdfviewer="/usr/local/bin/acroread",browser="mozilla")
        help.start()
        ret <- "X"}
ret
}


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