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

[Bruce Ratner PhD]

Dear John:
My pleasure to respond to your request. 
Problem: Cannot get the .Rprofile file to take affect in either R (or RStudio). 
As to "what" can be in put into a  .Rprofile file is abound, many examples in the manuals, blogs, links, and books. 

The "how to" write the file was the real issue, not clearly covered in any material I could find or purchase.

I read that any notepad-type app can be used to create the .Rprofile file: 
1. with or without a txt/R extension, and/or
2. with or without Administrator permission. 

Not being a professional programmer/developer, I did not know about text editors that can create files with no extension, which was the problem at hand.

After many back and forth drilling down by R-helpers with trouble shooting queries, it became clear that I was not using a developer's text editor. 

Solution: I found an editor online, EditPad Pro 7 (for Windows), with which I created my .Rprofile file. 

The result was complete success, and gratitude to all R-helpers who stuck by me, 
understanding I am new to R, with non professional programming skills. As a statistician (or if you prefer data scientist) for twenty plus years, clearly I must know how to program, but not at the pro level or pro understanding. 

John, I hope this write up is satisfactory, if not please let let me know, as I will rewrite until you are happy with it.

It is a nice surprise to hear your wanting to archive the problem-solution, which almost did me in, and which created ill feelings among several R-helpers towards me. 

Regards, 
Bruce

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Bruce Ratner PhD
The Significant Statistician™
(516) 791-3544
Statistical Predictive Analytics -- www.DMSTAT1.com
Machine-Learning Data Mining -- www.GenIQ.net



> On Apr 18, 2017, at 9:52 AM, Sparks, John James <jspark4 at uic.edu> wrote:
> 
> Bruce,
> 
> Do you think that you could post the final solution to the problem?  That
> way it would be stored with this thread and the next person who has the
> same problem would be able to locate the FINAL solution.
> 
> --JJS
> 
> 
>> On Mon, April 17, 2017 12:47 pm, BR_email wrote:
>> TO _ALL_:
>> THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
>> After hours, and hours, and hours, and ... , and hours: Success.
>> To all who helped, thanks.
>> My quest was minor, but major for me, as I learn from the path of one,
>> whether big or small begets another.
>> 
>> I never look down at anyone, except to help him/her up.
>> 
>> With gratitude,
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> Peter Dalgaard wrote:
>>>> 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>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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
>>>> 
>>>> 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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