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

BR_email br at dmstat1.com
Sat Apr 15 21:57:37 CEST 2017


Boris:
As before, you assume that I, Bruce Ratner, just asks questions without 
first trying it myself.
FYI: I purchased and read four RStudio books, as well as all the links I 
found in the web.
I will not take your maligning me.
Please try to assist me, but do not bully me.
Bruce Ratner, Ph.D.

  

Boris Steipe wrote:
> As with R, do with RStudio: Read The Beautiful Manual, and peruse The Google. For example, searching Google with the two (admittedly hard to guess) cryptograms:
>    "RStudio Rprofile"
>
> will present more than a dozen most enlightening links to fulfil your desire.
>
> Perhaps the following link works better for you though:
>    https://www.bing.com/search?q=rstudio+rprofile
>
> B.
>
>
>> On Apr 15, 2017, at 3:14 PM, BR_email <br at dmstat1.com> wrote:
>>
>> Bill:
>> Thanks for reply.
>> Sorry, I do not understand it.
>> For example, where do I put "file.path(getwd(), ".Rprofile")" ?
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>>
>> William Dunlap wrote:
>>> 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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