I've just noticed that with a recent R devel on Windows, R CMD build sources ~/.Rprofile, e.g.
> RCMD build Running ~/.Rprofile > R CMD build Running ~/.Rprofile FYI R --no-init-file & R --vanilla still avoid this. > sessionInfo() R Under development (unstable) (2012-02-08 r58297) Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > /Henrik ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel