[R] Setting .Rprofile for RStudio on a Windows 7 x64bit

[William Dunlap]

I think the site-specific R profile should be, using R syntax
   file.path(R.home("etc"), "Rprofile.site") # no dot before the capital R
The personal R profile will be
   file.path(Sys.getenv("HOME"), ".Rprofile") # there is a dot before capital R
but if a local R profile,
   file.path(getwd(), ".Rprofile") # there is a dot before capital R
exists it will be used and the one in HOME will not be.  (getwd() should
be the startup directory.)


Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com


On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 9:06 AM, BR_email <br at dmstat1.com> wrote:
> Hi R-helpers:
> Can you offer assistance in my getting .Rprofile and .Rprofile.site to run
> in RStudio?
> When I start RStudio nothing happens.
> I have put .Rprofile in [1] and [2], and .Rprofile.site in [2].
>
> Below, the info I believe you need to know.
> Thanks, in advance, for any help.
> Bruce
>
> The .Rprofile and .Rprofile.site are R-type files, which contain the two
> lines below.
> Also, I tried the profile files as text files.
> options(prompt="R> ")
> set.seed(12345)
>
>> Sys.getenv("HOME") [1] "C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents"
>> Sys.getenv("R_HOME") [2] "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.3"
>
>
>
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