[R-SIG-Mac] Failure of CLI with .Rprofile on Mac OS X

Vincent Goulet vincent.goulet at me.com
Sat Sep 20 02:54:02 CEST 2014


You left out the part where you show us what's in your .Rprofile. If there is anything in there specific to R.app (an application different from R), of course it won't work with CLI ("base") R. 

Vincent Goulet
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> Le 2014-09-19 à 17:01, Gang Chen <gangchen at mail.nih.gov> a écrit :
> 
> When R starts in GUI on my Mac OS X 10.7.5, the startup configuration in .Rprofile works fine. However, when R starts through command line interface (CLI) on the terminal , it does not work at all. 
> 
> The GUI R on my Mac is aliased on the terminal to /Applications/R.app/Contents/MacOS/R while the CLI R (/usr/bin/R) is linked to /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R. There is only one .Rprofile, which resides in my home directory ~/. 
> 
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
> 
> What could be the cause for the failure with CLI?
> 
> Thanks,
> Gang
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