> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:r-help- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rolf Turner > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:50 PM > To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] .Rprofile under Windoze. > > I am (for my sins) having to do some work using R under Windoze. I > wanted to set up a .Rprofile to control my set-up. The docs on > .Rprofile say that it can/should be placed in ``the user's home > directory''. ``An Introduction to R'' observes lucidly that this > concept needs to be clarified under Windoze. > > Following the suggestions in An Introduction to R, I tried > putting a .Rprofile in > > "C:\Documents and Settings\rolf\My Documents" > > When that didn't work, I tried putting it in the starting directory > (and confirmed that I'd got that right by checking with getwd() and > list.files(all.files=TRUE) ). > > The last invocation indicated that the name of the file was *really* > ``.Rprofile.txt'' --- although I'd tried to save it as (simply) > ``.Rprofile''. Is that the problem? If so, how can I persuade > Windoze NOT to stick that damned .txt tag on the end? (Gawd, but I > ***hate*** Windoze!!!) If that's not the problem, can you suggest > what *is* the problem? > <<<snip>>>
Rolf, Whether an extension is automagically added (and if so what) is usually a function of the program writing the file out. In MS Windows programs, there is usually an option in the Save/SaveAs menu called something like "Save As Type". To save without an extension you want to make sure that the value is 'All Files (*.*)', otherwise the program will usually tag on a default extension. Hope this is helpful, Dan Daniel J. Nordlund Research and Data Analysis Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Olympia, WA 98504-5204 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.