[R-SIG-Mac] .Rprofile and quartz

[Simon Urbanek]

On Apr 19, 2004, at 1:20 PM, Andrew Beckerman wrote:

> A not of thanks to all involved with getting 1.9.0 out to OS X with 
> console.... Very flash and fast!
>
> My question may not be a mac thing: I had a very simple .Rprofile in 
> my home directory:
>
> cat("Welcome to R...." \n)
> quartz("",8,8)
> lset(col.whitebg())
> cat(\n "Profile Loaded...." \n)
>
> However, with 1.9, it no longer works, saying that quartz cannot be 
> found.  I have tried embedding these into a .First() function, as 
> shown is ?Startup, with no luck.  Any ideas?

Similar questions are being asked in R-devel/R-help almost daily :P. 
The startup files don't load any packages except for base - and this 
implies that you need to load such libraries explicitly. In your case 
you probably want to load the graphics library in order to get the 
quartz function (for reasons etc. see the list archives). This behavior 
is not new in 1.9, but the split of base in to individual packages is.

Cheers,
Simon

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