thanks for this. My error had been in not accepting the location "C:\" suggested by R for Rconsole.
It seems that my R_USER was indeed C: so I was rejecting the correct place for Rconsole:
> Sys.getenv("R_USER")
R_USER
"C:"Cheers,
Murray\ Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
Hi, a quick reply to help troubleshoot. The below (is "minimal" and) works on both R v1.8.1 and R v1.9.0 on WinXP Pro:
From http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R/Rgui/:
"By default all plot windows (The "Figure 2" etc windows) opened in
Rgui are placed within the Rgui frame. Some people prefer this others
don't. An option is to let the main window and all plot windows live
separately. See screenshots to the right.
This is done by selecting "GUI preferences..." in the "Edit" menu. Then select "SDI" (instead of "MDI") next to "Single or multiple windows". The click "Save" and accept the suggested pathname ("Rconsole") by clicking "Save" in the opened file dialog. The click "Cancel" (yes, it is indeed ok). Restart R to get effectuate the settings."
My R_USER and HOME as seen by R are:
Sys.getenv("R_USER")
R_USER "C:\\Documents and Settings\\hb"
Sys.getenv("HOME")
HOME ""
Maybe it helps you on the way...
Henrik Bengtsson
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Sent: den 24 april 2004 11:05
To: Prof Brian Ripley; R-help
Subject: Re: [R] Changing Gui preferences
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Murray Jorgensen wrote:
I want to modify my Gui preferences to get rid of the MDI
toolbar and
status bar. [ Under Windows XP and R 1.8.1 and 1.9.0.]
When I uncheck the boxes and click "apply" I am told to save the
preferences and the changes will take effect when
restarting R. I click
"save" and a box comes up to ask me to save Rconsole (I'm
not sure where
this should be saved but I navigate my way to where the old
Rconsole was
and save on top of it.
?Rconsole tells you where the copy in use is saved.
What it says is:
There are system copies of these files in 'R_HOME\etc'. Users can
have personal copies of the files: these are looked for in the
location given by the environment variable 'R_USER'. The
system
files are read only if a corresponding personal file is not found.
If the environment variable 'R_USER' is not set, the R system sets
it to 'HOME' if that is set (stripping any trailing slash),
otherwise to '{HOMEDRIVE}{HOMEPATH}' if 'HOMEDRIVE' is set
otherwise to the working directory.
Now under Control Panel>System>Advanced I find a box listing environmental variables. I find no R_HOME or R_USER listed there so presumably they are not set.
I'm not sure how to find 'HOME' but I presume that it is the path that appears in the 'Change directory' box when you open this through the
gui. In which case for me 'HOME' is
C:\apps\R\rw1090
Now I have 3 versions of Rconsole near here. They are in
C:\apps\R\rw1090\etc C:\apps\R\rw1090 and C:\apps\R
I still don't know how to change my Gui preferences!
>[...]
Murray
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