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

[David Winsemius]

> On Apr 15, 2017, at 12:46 PM, Boris Steipe <boris.steipe at utoronto.ca> 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

Another promising search strategy would be SO with "[rstudio]" in the tags:

http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Brstudio%5D+rprofile+windows

-- 
david.
> 
> 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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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA