[R] About .RData

Stephen Liu satimis at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 16 02:21:44 CEST 2010


----- Original Message ----

From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
To: Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com>
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Sent: Mon, August 16, 2010 4:20:08 AM
Subject: Re: [R] About .RData

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>> 2) Why on Windows R the path of the folders/directories shows the 
>>Administrator;
>> [1] "C:/Users/Administrator/Documents/."
>> ......
>> ???
> >
> >Not the user?  I login as user.
> >
> >A further thought, I recall that I login as Administrator to install R.  Does 
>it matter?.  How to change the path back to user?

> You probably set the startup directory in the shortcut when you did the 
>install.  (I believe that's the default behaviour.)  So you need to edit the 
>shortcut to a different directory, possibly with a separate 
>
> shortcut for each user.  The editing is done through Windows, by right-clicking 
>on the shortcut.


Hi Duncan,


Thanks for your advice.

Right click short

Properties -> Shortcut ->
Start in:
change;
C:\Users\Administrator

to;
C:\Users\userA

-> OK


B.R.
Stephen L





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