Hi,
After some reading and experimentation I found that I cannot solve this problem:
1. I am starting R and check:
> system("pwd")
/home/woodstock/hoffmacw/R/test
> system("echo $HOME")
/home/woodstock/hoffmacw
> system("echo $R_PROFILE")
/home/woodstock/hoffmacw/R
> system("ls $R_PROFILE/.Rprofile")
/home/woodstock/hoffmacw/R/.Rprofile
> system("cat $R_PROFILE/.Rprofile") # gives system("pwd")
(editedOn <- "2004-06-15, 11:10").Last <- function() {
cat("Adieu, delete all ps.out.*.ps files\n")
system("rm -f ps.out.*.ps")
system(" \n")
}
.First <- function() {
options(digits=6)
library(MASS)
help.start()
x11(display = "", width = 9, height = 7, pointsize = 12, gamma = 1, colortype = getOption("X11colortype"), maxcubesize = 256)
}
>
Now
> source("$R_PROFILE/.Rprofile")
Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
In addition: Warning message:
cannot open file `$R_PROFILE/.Rprofile'
>but
> source("~/R/.Rprofile")
/home/woodstock/hoffmacw/R/test
>This does IMHO not explain why .Rprofile is not being sourced at startup. help.start and x11 are *not* executed, of course.
Is there an unseen obstacle?
2.
When I manually source("~/R/.Rprofile"), after exiting and saving the work space, and restarting R I get:
R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 1.9.0 (2004-04-12), ISBN 3-900051-00-3 .... [Previously saved workspace restored]
Loading required package: stats Error in .First() : couldn't find function "help.start" > options(STERM='iESS', editor='emacsclient') >
Not finding help.start is puzzling! Because of this error, x11 would not start. Exchanging the lines with help.start and x11 would just result in not finding x11!
Yet doing a manual > help.start() is possible.
Sorry for the lengthy description, but perhaps there is quite a simple reason for this misbehaviour.
Christian
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