[R] Failure with .Rprofile on Mac OS X

[Gang Chen]

Thanks for the help, Amos!

> The only reason that *should* happen is if there's an .Rprofile in the directory you're in when you start R.

There is only one .Rprofil, which is in my home directory ~/

> Where *exactly* is the .Rprofile file you want loaded

The only one is in my home directory.

> what directory are you starting from

It does not matter where I start R because on my Mac the CLI R is
linked to /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R while the
GUI R is linked to /Applications/R.app/Contents/MacOS/R

> what does R say is the user's home directory? Did you make *any* changes to Rprofile.site, or Renviron?

> R.home()
[1] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources"

> What is the output from Sys.getenv() in gui and cli, and do they differ?

They differ slightly. I have trouble pinpointing the exact difference
because the format is a little different and vim does not help much in
tracking the differences. I just noticed that the CLI version has a
few extra terms such as

COLUMNS
"130"
...
DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH
"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/lib"

Thanks,
Gang


On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Amos B. Elberg <amos.elberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> The only reason that *should* happen is if there's an .Rprofile in the directory you're in when you start R.
>
> Where *exactly* is the .Rprofile file you want loaded, what directory are you starting from, and what does R say is the user's home directory? Did you make *any* changes to Rprofile.site, or Renviron?
>
> What is the output from Sys.getenv() in gui and cli, and do they differ?
>
>
>> On Sep 18, 2014, at 11:18 AM, Gang Chen <gangchen6 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> When R starts in GUI (e.g., /Applications/R.app/Contents/MacOS/R) on
>> my Mac OS X 10.7.5, the startup configuration in .Rprofile works fine.
>> However, when R starts on the terminal (e.g.,
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R), it does not work at
>> all. What could be the reason for the failure?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gang
>>
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