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

[Berend Hasselman]

> On 17 Apr 2017, at 18:39, BR_email <br at dmstat1.com> wrote:
> 
> Bill, part II:
> 
>> source(echo=TRUE, ""C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents/.Rprofile.site") 
> Error: unexpected symbol in "source(echo=TRUE, ""C"
> 

You have a double quote sign ("") preceding C:/.
Make it a single double quote so that you get "C:/...."

Berend

> >
> 
> 
> Bruce Ratner, Ph.D.
> The Significant Statistician™
> (516) 791-3544
> Statistical Predictive Analtyics -- www.DMSTAT1.com
> Machine-Learning Data Mining and Modeling -- www.GenIQ.net
> 
> BR_email wrote:
>> Bill:
>> Success, almost there:
>> 
>>> writeLines(readLines("C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents/.Rprofile.site")) options(prompt="R> ")
>> set.seed(12345)
>> rm(list=ls())
>> 
>> >
>> 
>> 
>> Yet, still not affecting the launch, as "R>" is not there.
>> Any suggestions, please. "So close, yet far away, ... " - Carly Simon
>> 
>> 
>> Bruce Ratner, Ph.D.
>> The Significant Statistician™
>> (516) 791-3544
>> Statistical Predictive Analtyics -- www.DMSTAT1.com
>> Machine-Learning Data Mining and Modeling -- www.GenIQ.net
>> 
>> 
>> William Dunlap wrote:
>>> No calls please.  Just show the group what .../etc/Rprofile-site contained.
>>> Bill Dunlap
>>> TIBCO Software
>>> wdunlap tibco.com
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 8:36 AM, BR_email <br at dmstat1.com> wrote:
>>>> Bill:
>>>> I feel you are nailing it for me.
>>>> Can I please call you, but I am getting a little lost, and losing your
>>>> valuable help?
>>>> Bruce
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Bruce Ratner, Ph.D.
>>>> The Significant Statistician™
>>>> (516) 791-3544
>>>> Statistical Predictive Analtyics -- www.DMSTAT1.com
>>>> Machine-Learning Data Mining and Modeling -- www.GenIQ.net
>>>> 
>>>> William Dunlap wrote:
>>>>> I should haved added full.names=TRUE to the dir() call.  I you add
>>>>> that I'd expect that you would see ".../etc/Rprofile.site". What do
>>>>> you see when you do
>>>>> 
>>>>>       writeLines(readLines(".../etc/Rprofile.site")
>>>>> 
>>>>> and
>>>>>       source(echo=TRUE, ".../etc/Rprofile.site")
>>>>> 
>>>>> (replace the ellipsis by whatever dir(full.names=TRUE,...) showed).
>>>>> Bill Dunlap
>>>>> TIBCO Software
>>>>> wdunlap tibco.com
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 8:24 AM, BR_email <br at dmstat1.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Bill:
>>>>>> Here's what I got:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> dir(c(".", Sys.getenv("HOME"), R.home("etc")), pattern="Rprofile") [1]
>>>>>> "Rprofile.site"
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Bruce Ratner, Ph.D.
>>>>>> The Significant Statistician™
>>>>>> (516) 791-3544
>>>>>> Statistical Predictive Analtyics -- www.DMSTAT1.com
>>>>>> Machine-Learning Data Mining and Modeling -- www.GenIQ.net
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> William Dunlap wrote:
>>>>>>> Use the R command
>>>>>>>     dir(c(".", Sys.getenv("HOME"), R.home("etc")), pattern="Rprofile")
>>>>>>> to see if there are any file names with the unwanted ".txt" and use
>>>>>>> file.rename() to fix them up.
>>>>>>> Bill Dunlap
>>>>>>> TIBCO Software
>>>>>>> wdunlap tibco.com
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 8:06 AM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> I believe someone already mentioned it, but notepad makes it hard to
>>>>>>>> save a file without the ".txt" extension to its name. R does not do
>>>>>>>> anything with .Rprofile.txt, only .Rprofile, so you must figure out a
>>>>>>>> way to work around notepad's mangling of the file name.
>>>>>>>> Bill Dunlap
>>>>>>>> TIBCO Software
>>>>>>>> wdunlap tibco.com
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Bruce Ratner PhD <br at dmstat1.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Bert:
>>>>>>>>> I used note pad under Administrator. The code:
>>>>>>>>> options(prompt="R> ")
>>>>>>>>> set.seed(12345)
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Bruce
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> ______________
>>>>>>>>> Bruce Ratner PhD
>>>>>>>>> The Significant Statistician™
>>>>>>>>> (516) 791-3544
>>>>>>>>> Statistical Predictive Analytics -- www.DMSTAT1.com
>>>>>>>>> Machine-Learning Data Mining -- www.GenIQ.net
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 17, 2017, at 10:30 AM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I cannot add to the instructions that you have already been given
>>>>>>>>>> regarding .Rprofile.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> But what code did you use in your .Rprofile to set the prompt? The
>>>>>>>>>> posting guide explicitly requests that you provide your code,
>>>>>>>>>> although
>>>>>>>>>> maybe you already did earlier in this extensive thread.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> ?options
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> is how it can be set. Did you do this?
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> -- Bert
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Bert Gunter
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming
>>>>>>>>>> along
>>>>>>>>>> and sticking things into it."
>>>>>>>>>> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 3:06 AM, Bruce Ratner PhD <br at dmstat1.com>
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> David:
>>>>>>>>>>> When I launch Rstudio the effects of the Rprofile do not show, e.g.,
>>>>>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>>>>> want the prompt to be "R> " instead of the default "> ". The former
>>>>>>>>>>> doesn't
>>>>>>>>>>> show.
>>>>>>>>>>> Bruce
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> ______________
>>>>>>>>>>> Bruce Ratner PhD
>>>>>>>>>>> The Significant Statistician™
>>>>>>>>>>> (516) 791-3544
>>>>>>>>>>> Statistical Predictive Analytics -- www.DMSTAT1.com
>>>>>>>>>>> Machine-Learning Data Mining -- www.GenIQ.net
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 16, 2017, at 7:34 PM, David Winsemius
>>>>>>>>>>>> <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
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>>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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