[R] .Rprofile under Windoze.

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Thu Aug 31 08:50:44 CEST 2006


On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Petr Pikal wrote:

> Hi
> 
> or you can change
> 
> Rprofile.site in etc directory to whatever startup commands you want 
> to execute to have the same profile in all sessions.

Please see the warning about this in ?Startup: it is not the same thing as 
putting .Rprofile in your home directory.

Also, many users will not have write permission on R_HOME/etc.


> On 30 Aug 2006 at 15:11, BBands wrote:
> 
> > And... If you have/use shortcuts to R, you may also save an
> > ".Rprofile" to whatever directory you name in the "Start in:" field of
> > the shortcut. This allows one to have many profiles.

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