[R-SIG-Mac] Darwin open and '--vanilla' for R.app

[Ben Tupper]

On Feb 27, 2013, at 6:07 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> You are attributing documentation for R to R.app, a separate project not part of the R sources.
> 
> R.app calls R with arguments --no-save --no-restore --gui=aqua, and does not pass its own arguments on.   A fluent speaker of Objective C could change this easily enough.
> 
> On 26/02/2013 14:02, Ben Tupper wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have a number of configurations in my .Rprofile that are run when I start R.app.  I typically start R.app from a Terminal...
> 
> You can only one configuration there: it is all run or not run at all.
> 
>> $ open -a R
>> 
>> ... which nicely reads my .Rprofile as R.app starts.
>> 
>> On occasion I wish to enter R in the '--vanilla' state.  Right now I do that by starting a command line version ...
>> 
>> $ R --vanilla
>> 
>> ... which starts a command line instance of R.  That is fine except that I regret the loss of the nice R.app interface while I stumble around on the command line.  So, I wonder if there is a way to start R.app in a similar way - that is start R.app without reading any of the user configurations.  I have tried tricks like the following without success.
>> 
>> $ open -a R --args '--vanilla'
>> 
>> I don't see any hints about in the R-SIG-Mac help archives nor it here...
> 
> Set R_PROFILE_USER to avoid your ~/.Rprofile being read: see ?Startup .  I just tried
> 
> env R_PROFILE_USER=foo open -a R
> 
> where '~/foo' does not exist.  And similarly for other startup options ....
> 

Thanks so much - setting this environment variable temporarily like this does the trick.  For the record, in addition to ?Startup this discussion is helpful 

http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e10/help/10/04/2926.html

as well as these docs

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-intro.html#Customizing-the-environment
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-intro.html#Invoking-R-from-the-command-line


Cheers,
Ben



>> 
>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html#R_002eapp
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Ben
>> 
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>> 
>> locale:
>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>> 
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>> 
>> 
>> Ben Tupper
>> Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
>> 60 Bigelow Drive, P.O. Box 380
>> East Boothbay, Maine 04544
>> http://www.bigelow.org
>> 
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Ben Tupper
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
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East Boothbay, Maine 04544
http://www.bigelow.org