On Sep 20, 2014, at 2:15 PM, peter dalgaard wrote: > Notice that we have a similar, but unresolved, bug report a month old. > > https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15940 > > I assume that the obvious things like a .Rprofile in the current directory > has been checked? > > Running R under a debugger, single-stepping through the startup code would > likely isolate the trouble, but it's a bit of work to set up, and of course > it needs to be on the machine that actually displays the problem. > > -pd > > On 20 Sep 2014, at 21:27 , David Winsemius <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> >>> snipped
>> >> Caveat: I'm not the best person to answer this. I'm not a skilled user of >> Unix and I'm not one of the Mac development team. But those guys are often >> not reading the mailing list on weekends so I thought I'd throw some ideas >> out that you could investigate. >> I haven't been able to find exactly what PWD is pointing to. It's not listed >> in the "environment variables" link from ?Sys.getenv. I think it's related >> tot eh[sic] Unix cli command `pwd` which prints the working directory. Peter; Do you know whether the "PWD" value in the result from Sys.getenv() is supposed to point at the working directory of R started from the command line? -- David. >> I don't know how to give you a direct link to the page with a listing of >> environment variables, since that page is one the doesn't conform to the >> convention of having a ?NameOfPage lookup. Its page name is "EnvVar" but >> ?EnvVar gives a "No documentation for ‘EnvVar’ ..." message. I also do not >> find "PWD" in a search of the Install/Admin document. >> >> I tried changing PWD in a session an quitting, but it didn't seem to "stick". >> >>> Sys.getenv()["PWD"] >> PWD >> "/Users/davidwinsemius" >>> sessionInfo() >> R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10) >> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (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] grDevices datasets splines graphics utils stats grid >> [8] methods base >> >> other attached packages: >> [1] rms_4.2-1 SparseM_1.03 Hmisc_3.14-4 Formula_1.1-1 >> [5] survival_2.37-7 sos_1.3-8 brew_1.0-6 lattice_0.20-29 >> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >> [1] cluster_1.15.2 latticeExtra_0.6-26 multcomp_1.3-1 >> [4] mvtnorm_0.9-9999 nlme_3.1-117 polspline_1.1.9 >> [7] quantreg_5.05 RColorBrewer_1.0-5 rpart_4.1-8 >> [10] sandwich_2.3-0 zoo_1.7-11 >> >> #---------- Idea # 2 -------- >> >> Another possibility is implied by this portion of the ?Startup page that (I >> already suggested you read): >> >> "If you want ‘~/.Renviron’ or ‘~/.Rprofile’ to be ignored by child R >> processes (such as those run by R CMD check and R CMD build), set the >> appropriate environment variable R_ENVIRON_USER or R_PROFILE_USER to (if >> possible, which it is not on Windows) "" or to the name of a non-existent >> file." >> >> >> #------ Suggestion ------------- >> So you need to check whether any of those are different than what you >> expect. Failing illumination after poking around in your setup, I suspect >> you may need to post the output of ALL of sessionInfo() AND the results of >> dput(Sys.getenv()) . >> >> -- >> David. >> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Gang >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> >> David Winsemius >> Alameda, CA, USA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Email: [email protected] Priv: [email protected] > > > > > > > > David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
