[R] reading .Rprofile at startup in R 2.0.0

2004-11-06 Thread Patrick Giraudoux
Dear listers, Moving from R 1.9.1 to R 2.0.0 today, it happens that the traditional .RProfile (located in my home directory: C:\Documents and Settings\Giraudoux) is not read at startup with R 2.0. Any suggestion? Patrick Giraudoux __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [R] reading .Rprofile at startup in R 2.0.0

2004-11-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Patrick Giraudoux wrote: Moving from R 1.9.1 to R 2.0.0 today, it happens that the traditional .RProfile (located in my home directory: C:\Documents and Settings\Giraudoux) is not read at startup with R 2.0. Any suggestion? Do read the CHANGES file! Probably that is a

Re: [R] reading .Rprofile at startup in R 2.0.0

2004-11-06 Thread Mike Prager
Consider setting the environment variable R_USER=c:\Documents and Settings\Giraudoux MHP At 08:55 AM 11/06/2004, you wrote: Dear listers, Moving from R 1.9.1 to R 2.0.0 today, it happens that the traditional .RProfile (located in my home directory: C:\Documents and Settings\Giraudoux) is not

Re: [R] reading .Rprofile at startup in R 2.0.0

2004-11-06 Thread H Patrick Giraudoux
Thanks for the hint. Having got through the CHANGES file as advised by Pr Ripley (I unfortunately checked first the NEWS file and forgot that one..) I found it may be more simple (to me) to put the .RProfile file into the my documents directory. It works fine now. Setting environment variables

Re: [R] reading .Rprofile at startup in R 2.0.0

2004-11-06 Thread Mike Prager
You wouldn't find info on setting environment variables in the R FAQ because environment variables are an operating system feature. Under recent versions of Windows, environment variables are stored in the Registry and can be set persistently through a dialog. In Windows XP, this is found

Re: [R] reading .Rprofile at startup in R 2.0.0

2004-11-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Mike Prager wrote: You wouldn't find info on setting environment variables in the R FAQ because environment variables are an operating system feature. Under You _will_ find it in the rw-FAQ, as mentioned in the posting guide and by Patrick! It is actually very easy,