Hi Russ, I may be misunderstanding what you are suggesting, but if not, the ability to place:
options(show.signif.stars = FALSE) in ~/.Rprofile has been around for years. I have been using R since circa 2001 and have had that in my ~/.Rprofile for as long as I can remember. I would have to defer to others as to when that may have been added as feature, if not available back then. Regards, Marc Schwartz > On May 10, 2026, at 4:23 PM, Lenth, Russell V via R-devel > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm following up on a thread from 7 years ago (Mar 2019) where there are > several arguments -- some of them passionate -- for and against having the > 'show.signif.stars' option default to TRUE. You can look back in the archives > (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/) under "default for 'signif.stars'", > starting 27 March 2019 to see what was said. You may also want to look at the > "Regression stars" thread initiated by Frank Harrell starting 7 Feb 2013. > > Clearly, there is a long-standing debate on this issue. I'm writing to > suggest a more modest response than changing the default for > 'show.signif.stars': Instead, consider making 'show.signif.stars' a > configuration option along with 'papersize' and others that some users will > want to change. The default .Rprofile script starts with "# Things you might > want to change" - and it could be added there. I think this file is > initialized with some modal dialogs in a new installation of R, and it would > be good to add it there too. > > Why do this? Because there are a lot of users out there who strongly object > to significance stars, just like there are a lot of people who use > letter-sized paper. They are your colleagues, even though you may disagree > with them; and it gives them a more visible way of not having those asterisks > cluttering their results. > > Thanks > > Russ Lenth > Professor Emeritus > University of Iowa, USA ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
