Paul, On Apr 7, 2006, at 6:19 PM, Paul Roebuck wrote:
> True. I just run my "check" and "INSTALL" from Terminal.app so this > has never caused me any issues. And on regular Un*x, xterm would > have been launched by the shell. No, that's not quite true - it's launched by the wm which in turn is launched by X11, so it is not started by the shell (login shell to be more precise) and thus never read .profile. However, depending on your X11 setup, you can tell xterm to process .profile, but the default setting for Apple X11 is not to (and it's default for some other unix systems, too). > Since R.app reads .Renviron anyway, this method has been adequate > for my multi-environment needs; If .Renviron is sufficient, that's fine, but as others were pointing out, R_LIBS for example must be set before that. > if you use other Mac OS X applications, the Mac-specific > environment.plist route is the way to go. > > Must admit to being surprised about 'open' though. Would have > thought that (when run from Terminal.app) would have passed on the > shell's environment. > I must admit that you got me there :). In fact `open' actually passes the parent environment to the LS, although the documentation says the otherwise - interesting. Thanks for that one - this is definitely handy for testing things ... Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
