On Feb 26, 2013, at 9:02 AM, Ben Tupper wrote: > Hi, > > I have a number of configurations in my .Rprofile that are run when I start > R.app. I typically start R.app from a Terminal... > > $ open -a R > > ... which nicely reads my .Rprofile as R.app starts. > > On occasion I wish to enter R in the '--vanilla' state. Right now I do that > by starting a command line version ... > > $ R --vanilla > > ... which starts a command line instance of R. That is fine except that I > regret the loss of the nice R.app interface while I stumble around on the > command line. So, I wonder if there is a way to start R.app in a similar way > - that is start R.app without reading any of the user configurations. I have > tried tricks like the following without success. > > $ open -a R --args '--vanilla' > > I don't see any hints about in the R-SIG-Mac help archives nor it here... >
Because command line arguments are only supported in command line tools, and R.app is not a command line tool. Given that this is something very obscure we don't have any plans to support this, but we may entertain a patch. Beware, though, that applications fall under different rules that command line tools, so you cannot just pass-on argv to R. Cheers, Simon > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html#R_002eapp > > > Thanks! > Ben > >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26) > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) > > locale: > [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > > Ben Tupper > Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences > 60 Bigelow Drive, P.O. Box 380 > East Boothbay, Maine 04544 > http://www.bigelow.org > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
