On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Spencer Graves <spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com> wrote: > On 5/4/2012 9:27 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> >> On 12-05-04 10:33 PM, Joshua Wiley wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Duncan Murdoch<murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 12-05-04 7:40 PM, Spencer Graves wrote: >>> >>> [snip] >>>>> >>>>> This is almost enough to drive a person to join the "I hate >>>>> MicroSoft" fan club. >>>> >>>> >>>> I think that would just confirm my membership in the "I hate Emacs" >>>> club. >>> >>> >>> I don't see how this is Emacs fault... >> >> >> It claimed to save a file somewhere, but didn't. > > > > The file was saved, because when I reopened it in Emacs, the changes > were there. Windows 7 created a phantom copy, which it delivered to Emacs > when I clicked and dragged it to the Emacs icon on the task bar. To fix the > problem, I copied the file to a non-protected place, opened it and the other > copy in Emacs, copied the changes from the phantom copy into the > non-protected copy, then copied the non-protected, edited version into the > protected, default R installation directory. I had not encountered this > problem earlier, because I usually install R in an unprotected location. I > got sloppy with R 1.15.0 and accepted the default installation directory.
Do you actually have multiple users on your PC accessing R? If not, you could avoid using the Rprofile.site file entirely and just put a .Rprofile file having the same contents using the %userprofile% folder for the user who uses R. That would avoid the problem of writing into system space. Alternately save Rprofile.site as Adminstrator. -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
