Dear John: My pleasure to respond to your request. Problem: Cannot get the .Rprofile file to take affect in either R (or RStudio). As to "what" can be in put into a .Rprofile file is abound, many examples in the manuals, blogs, links, and books.
The "how to" write the file was the real issue, not clearly covered in any material I could find or purchase. I read that any notepad-type app can be used to create the .Rprofile file: 1. with or without a txt/R extension, and/or 2. with or without Administrator permission. Not being a professional programmer/developer, I did not know about text editors that can create files with no extension, which was the problem at hand. After many back and forth drilling down by R-helpers with trouble shooting queries, it became clear that I was not using a developer's text editor. Solution: I found an editor online, EditPad Pro 7 (for Windows), with which I created my .Rprofile file. The result was complete success, and gratitude to all R-helpers who stuck by me, understanding I am new to R, with non professional programming skills. As a statistician (or if you prefer data scientist) for twenty plus years, clearly I must know how to program, but not at the pro level or pro understanding. John, I hope this write up is satisfactory, if not please let let me know, as I will rewrite until you are happy with it. It is a nice surprise to hear your wanting to archive the problem-solution, which almost did me in, and which created ill feelings among several R-helpers towards me. Regards, Bruce ______________ Bruce Ratner PhD The Significant Statistician™ (516) 791-3544 Statistical Predictive Analytics -- www.DMSTAT1.com Machine-Learning Data Mining -- www.GenIQ.net > On Apr 18, 2017, at 9:52 AM, Sparks, John James <jspa...@uic.edu> wrote: > > Bruce, > > Do you think that you could post the final solution to the problem? That > way it would be stored with this thread and the next person who has the > same problem would be able to locate the FINAL solution. > > --JJS > > >> On Mon, April 17, 2017 12:47 pm, BR_email wrote: >> TO _ALL_: >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. >> After hours, and hours, and hours, and ... , and hours: Success. >> To all who helped, thanks. >> My quest was minor, but major for me, as I learn from the path of one, >> whether big or small begets another. >> >> I never look down at anyone, except to help him/her up. >> >> With gratitude, >> Bruce >> >> Bruce Ratner, Ph.D. >> The Significant Statistician™ >> (516) 791-3544 >> Statistical Predictive Analtyics -- www.DMSTAT1.com >> Machine-Learning Data Mining and Modeling -- www.GenIQ.net >> >> >> Peter Dalgaard wrote: >>>> On 17 Apr 2017, at 19:01 , BR_email <b...@dmstat1.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Berend: Something looks good, but RStudio still Rprofile still doees >>>> not affect the launch. >>>> >>>>> source(echo=TRUE, "C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents/.Rprofile.site") >>>>> options(prompt="R> ") >>>>> set.seed(12345) >>>>> rm(list=ls()) >>>> R> >>>> >>>> >>>> Bruce Ratner, Ph.D. >>>> The Significant Statistician™ >>>> (516) 791-3544 >>>> Statistical Predictive Analtyics -- www.DMSTAT1.com >>>> Machine-Learning Data Mining and Modeling -- www.GenIQ.net >>>> >>>> Berend Hasselman wrote: >>>>> source(echo=TRUE, ""C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents/.Rprofile.site") >>> According to the gospel of St.Henrik, that filename is wrong, and >>> possibly the directory too. >>> >>> So try his suggestions. What is the output (show us!) of >>> >>> normalizePath("./.Rprofile") >>> normalizePath("~/.Rprofile") >>> >>> Assuming that the former is >>> >>> "C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents/.Rprofile" >>> >>> you could try renaming the .Rprofile.site file to that. If need be, use >>> file.rename, as in >>> >>> file.rename(from="C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents/.Rprofile.site", >>> to="C:/Users/BruceRatner/Documents/.Rprofile") >>> >>> (and restart, obviously). >>> >>> [I wouldn't set the seed in a .Rprofile file, nor would I use rm() >>> there, but that is a different kettle of fish.] >>> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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. > > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.