[R] .Rprofile under Windoze.

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Petr Pikal wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Well I see your point, but let say I would like to load some of my 
> functions, libraries I use, some dataset, and set the lattice theme 
> to my preferred version.
> 
> As I work on different problems and each problem has its separate 
> directory I used to copy .Rprofile from one directory to another, but 
> recently I find more convenient just to copy my Rprofile.site from 
> one version of R to newly installed. Then I am sure I have always the 
> same startup regardless of problem I am working on. Am I wrong? Is 
> there some other recommended way?

I use a .Rprofile in home directory (only): works in all startup 
directories and all versions of R (which matters to me as I am forever 
rebuilding R from scratch).

> Although I do not have write permission to registry and to some of 
> root directories, thank goodness (and Rcore development team :-), I 
> am able to install R elsewhere and use it without some sophisticated 
> hacking.
> 
> Best regards
> Petr Pikal
> 
> 
> On 31 Aug 2006 at 7:50, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
> Date sent:      	Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:50:44 +0100 (BST)
> From:           	Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> To:             	Petr Pikal <petr.pikal at precheza.cz>
> Copies to:      	r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject:        	Re: [R] .Rprofile under Windoze.
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> > Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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> 
> Petr Pikal
> petr.pikal at precheza.cz
> 

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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