What's changed is when the introductory message is printed, not when code in .Rprofile is run:
revision 1.118 date: 2003/02/26 15:51:17; author: pd; state: Exp; lines: +6 -6 RNG change + delayed greeting So it was intentional, but Peter D will have to explain why (as I wasn't paying attention). The profiles are run quite early (before the default packages are loaded) and I think it is preferable to use .First to load packages (now the system no longer makes use of it for that purpose). On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Roger Peng wrote: > Recently in R-devel, I've noticed that when I start up R, code in > .Rprofile (in the working directory) gets sourced but any messages printed > out by that code (e.g. by `cat') are printed *before* the introductory > statement about R. [...] -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
