[R] Rprofile.site under Windows 7?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 12-05-04 7:40 PM, Spencer Graves wrote:
> On 5/4/2012 5:41 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> On 12-05-04 12:41 AM, Spencer Graves wrote:
>>> On 5/3/2012 9:28 PM, Joshua Wiley wrote:
>>>> How are you using R?  Any special front ends that might be causing
>>>> this?  Can you try it in unsuffered consequences?
>>>
>>>
>>>          I'm running R 1.15.0;  sessionInfo() appears below.  I get this
>>> from Rgui i386 and x64 plus when calling Rterm x64 via GNU Emacs 23.3.1
>>> using ESS.
>>
>> I can see three possibilities:
>>
>>   1.  You have more than one Rprofile.site, and it's not reading the
>> one you think it's reading.   The search order is:
>>    - the file mentioned in the R_PROFILE environment variable if there
>> is one
>>    - RHOME/etc/<arch>/Rprofile.site
>>    - RHOME/etc/Rprofile.site
>>
>> It takes the first of those and ignores later ones.
>>
>> <arch>  is either i386 or x64, depending on your architecture.
>>
>> 2.  You don't have permission to read the file.  Does readLines() read
>> it from within a session?  This code is somewhat like what R does on
>> startup:
>>
>>    env<- Sys.getenv("R_PROFILE")
>>    if (nchar(env))
>>      readLines(env)
>>    else {
>>      filename<- file.path(R.home(), "etc", sub("[/]", "",
>> Sys.getenv("R_ARCH")), "Rprofile.site")
>>      if (file.exists(filename))
>>        readLines(filename)
>>      else {
>>        filename<- file.path(R.home(), "etc", "Rprofile.site")
>>        if (file.exists(filename))
>>          readLines(filename)
>>      }
>>    }
>>
>> Does it work for you?
>
>
>         Thanks very much.  It helped me isolate and solve the problem:
>
>
>         I edited "Rprofile.site" in Emacs.  When I saved the edited
> version into the default, write protected location, Windows 7 apparently
> saved two copies:  the original and a hidden copy with my edits.  When I
> then reopen the file in Emacs, I see my edits.  However, when I open it
> with WordPad or try to read it as you just described, my edits do not
> appear.  Knowing this, I saved a copy to a non-protected location,
> edited it there, then copied the edited version back into the protected
> directories.  Now it works.  (I had previously avoided installing R in
> the default location since encountering problems with Vista.)
>
>
>         This is almost enough to drive a person to join the "I hate
> MicroSoft" fan club.

I think that would just confirm my membership in the "I hate Emacs" club.

Duncan Murdoch

>
>         Spencer
>
>>
>> 3.  There's a bug somewhere....
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>          Thanks for the question.  Spencer
>>>>
>>>> Josh
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Spencer Graves
>>>> <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com>    wrote:
>>>>> Hello All:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>             I'm still unable to get Rprofile.site to set, e.g.,
>>>>> options(max.print=222), as I did with previous versions of R.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>             I just found similar questions posed by Trevor Miles and
>>>>> Ross
>>>>> Bowden with replies by Uwe Ligges and Duncan Murdoch.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>             In addition to the things I tried documented below, I
>>>>> also copied
>>>>> Rprofile.site into "R_HOME/etc/i386" and "R_HOME/etc/x64", without,
>>>>> e.g.,
>>>>> max.print being changed to 222 as requested.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>             Any other suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>             Thanks,
>>>>>             Spencer Graves
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ################################################
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>         I have so far failed to get Rprofile.site to be processed in
>>>>> R 2.15.0
>>>>> under Windows 7 as I remember having done it in previous version of
>>>>> R.  For
>>>>> example, I've included "options(max.print=222)" in
>>>>> "R_HOME/etc/Rprofile.site" (with and without the environmental
>>>>> variable
>>>>> R_HOME set to the install directory of R 2.15.0 in advanced system
>>>>> settings):  When I start R, I still get the default:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> options('max.print')
>>>>> $max.print
>>>>> [1] 99999
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>         Suggestions?
>>>>>         Thanks,
>>>>>         Spencer
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>> R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
>>>>> Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>>>>>
>>>>> locale:
>>>>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
>>>>> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
>>>>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
>>>>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
>>>>> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>>>>
>>>>> attached base packages:
>>>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>>>
>>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>>> [1] tools_2.15.0
>>>>>
>>>>>
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