[R] .Rprofile files (was R newbie configuration)

[Mark Leeds]

Thanks a lot. setHook is
Currently not in my knowledge set
But it's great to save these
Thing so I can look them up
When I  feel more comfortable.

Just to add to that Stata versus R discussion :

I believe, anyone who uses
any other package than R, is probably missing
out in the long run. It's truly unbelievable
what has been done here. I feel like I
fell asleep for 5 years ( by not using it )
and just woke up to all of these new
packages, facilities etc.

                        Mark




-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 4:04 AM
To: Petr Pikal
Cc: Mark Leeds; R-Stat Help
Subject: Re: [R] .Rprofile files (was R newbie configuration)

And here is one with a working setHook call.

options(show.signif.stars=FALSE)
setHook(packageEvent("grDevices", "onLoad"),
         function(...) grDevices::ps.options(horizontal=FALSE))
set.seed(1234)
options(repos=c(CRAN="http://cran.uk.r-project.org"))


On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Petr Pikal wrote:

> Hi
>
> here is my example of .Rprofile file
>
>
> require(graphics)
> require(utils)
>
> # setHook(packageEvent("graphics", "onLoad"), function(...)
> # graphics::par(bg="white"))  ## did not manage to persuade setHook
> # to work properly
>
> par(bg="white")
> RNGkind("Mersenne-Twister", "Inversion")
>
> # some set of my functions and data
>
> .libPaths("D:/programy/R/R-2.2.0/library/fun")
> library(fun)
> data(stand)
>
>
> HTH
> Petr
>
>
> On 4 Jan 2006 at 15:46, Mark Leeds wrote:
>
> Date sent:      	Wed, 4 Jan 2006 15:46:37 -0500
> From:           	"Mark Leeds" <Mleeds at kellogggroup.com>
> To:             	"R-Stat Help" <R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Subject:        	[R] R newbie configuration
>
>> I think I did enough reading on my
>> Own about startup ( part of the morning
>> And most of this afternoon )
>> to not feel uncomfortable asking
>> for confirmation of my understanding of this startup stuff.
>>
>> Obviously, the startup process is more complicated
>> Than below but, for my R newbie purposes,
>> It seems like I can think of the startup process as follows :
>>
>> Suppose my  home directory = "c:documents and settings/mleeds" =
>> $HOME.
>>
>> Put things in $HOME/.Rprofile that are more generic on startup and
not
>> specific to any particular R project.
>>
>> Put various .First() functions in the working directories of the
>> particular projects that
>> they are associated with so that they loaded in when their .RData
>> directory gets loaded.
>>
>> If above is correct  ( emphasis on correct for a newbie. I know there
>> is a lot more going on And things can be done more elegantly etc ),
>> Could someone send me an example of a .Rprofile file. I didn't use
>> these in S+ and I am wondering what you put in them ?
>>
>>                                    Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> Petr Pikal
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