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

[Peter Dalgaard]

> On 17 Apr 2017, at 19:01 , BR_email <br at dmstat1.com> wrote:
> 
> Berend: Something looks good, but RStudio still Rprofile still doees not affect the launch.
> 
>> source(echo=TRUE, "C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents/.Rprofile.site")
>> options(prompt="R> ")
> 
>> set.seed(12345)
> 
>> rm(list=ls())
> 
> R>
> 
> 
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> Berend Hasselman wrote:
>> source(echo=TRUE, ""C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents/.Rprofile.site")
> 

According to the gospel of St.Henrik, that filename is wrong, and possibly the directory too.

So try his suggestions. What is the output (show us!) of

normalizePath("./.Rprofile")
normalizePath("~/.Rprofile")

Assuming that the former is 

"C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents/.Rprofile"

you could try renaming the .Rprofile.site file to that. If need be, use file.rename, as in

file.rename(from="C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents/.Rprofile.site", to="C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents/.Rprofile")

(and restart, obviously).

[I wouldn't set the seed in a .Rprofile file, nor would I use rm() there, but that is a different kettle of fish.]

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