On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Petr Pikal wrote: > Hi > > Well I see your point, but let say I would like to load some of my > functions, libraries I use, some dataset, and set the lattice theme > to my preferred version. > > As I work on different problems and each problem has its separate > directory I used to copy .Rprofile from one directory to another, but > recently I find more convenient just to copy my Rprofile.site from > one version of R to newly installed. Then I am sure I have always the > same startup regardless of problem I am working on. Am I wrong? Is > there some other recommended way?
I use a .Rprofile in home directory (only): works in all startup directories and all versions of R (which matters to me as I am forever rebuilding R from scratch). > Although I do not have write permission to registry and to some of > root directories, thank goodness (and Rcore development team :-), I > am able to install R elsewhere and use it without some sophisticated > hacking. > > Best regards > Petr Pikal > > > On 31 Aug 2006 at 7:50, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > Date sent: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:50:44 +0100 (BST) > From: Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Petr Pikal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Copies to: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [R] .Rprofile under Windoze. > > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Petr Pikal wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > or you can change > > > > > > Rprofile.site in etc directory to whatever startup commands you want > > > to execute to have the same profile in all sessions. > > > > Please see the warning about this in ?Startup: it is not the same > > thing as putting .Rprofile in your home directory. > > > > Also, many users will not have write permission on R_HOME/etc. > > > > > > > On 30 Aug 2006 at 15:11, BBands wrote: > > > > > > > And... If you have/use shortcuts to R, you may also save an > > > > ".Rprofile" to whatever directory you name in the "Start in:" > > > > field of the shortcut. This allows one to have many profiles. > > > > -- > > 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 > > 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. > > Petr Pikal > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- 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 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.
