Good point. I see the behavior you describe. Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 19, 2014, at 1:18 AM, "Amos B. Elberg" <amos.elb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > David - the startup directory for Terminal.app shouldn't affect where R looks > for .Rprofile. If R is started from the command line, it should look in > whatever is the user's current directory (which will be ~/ if Terminal was > just launched), and then ~/ . It shouldn't be looking in /Applications/ > unless you happen to have cd'd to /Applications before launching R. > > (You put up the environment variables present in one launch and absent from > another, but what I was really looking for is whether something in his shell > is changing a path. Because mac environment variables are funky that way.) >> <compose-unknown-contact.jpg> David Winsemius September 19, 2014 at >> 12:57 AM >> >> Dear Gang Chen; >> >> The .Rprofile is loaded from the startup directory. Terminal.app will start >> up in /Applications/ while your R.app session appears to be starting in a >> different directory. (We don't know what your startup directories are.) I'm >> using R.app in /Applications/ so my .Rprofile has the same effect regardless >> of whether I run from R.app or from a bash console. >> >> See this portion of the Mac-FAQ: >> >> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html#The-current-and-startup-working-directories >> >> >> See ?Startup for more specifics that are generic to all R versions: >> >> >>> On Sep 18, 2014, at 7:04 PM, Amos B. Elberg wrote: >>> >>> The only reason that *should* happen is if there's an .Rprofile in the >>> directory you're in when you start R. >>> >>> Where *exactly* is the .Rprofile file you want loaded, what directory are >>> you starting from, and what does R say is the user's home directory? Did >>> you make *any* changes to Rprofile.site, or Renviron? >>> >>> What is the output from Sys.getenv() in gui and cli, and do they differ? >> >> They might differ even if the default directories are the same (as they are >> on my setup). I have a somewhat older version on this laptop but there are >> names of environment variables that are not present in both directions: >> >> I ran AppEnv <- dput( Sys.getenv() ) on my R.app session and then ran the >> corresponding command on a Terminal console session: >> >> These are the difference (on a R 2.15.2 setup): >> >> > AppEnv[ !names(AppEnv) %in% names(conEnv)] >> R_GUI_APP_REVISION R_GUI_APP_VERSION >> "6435" "1.53" >> > names( conEnv[ !names(conEnv) %in% names(AppEnv)] ) # i.e. missing in the >> > GUI installation >> >> [1] "COLUMNS" "DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH" "GDK_USE_XFT" >> "INFOPATH" >> [5] "LINES" "MANPATH" "PERL5LIB" >> "PWD" >> [9] "SHLVL" "TERM" "TERM_PROGRAM" >> "TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION" >> [13] "XDG_CACHE_HOME" "XDG_CONFIG_DIRS" "XDG_CONFIG_HOME" >> "XDG_DATA_DIRS" >> [17] "XDG_DATA_HOME" >> >> If there are further points of discussion they should be thrashed out (with >> greater details about sessionInfo() and startup settings), over on the >> R-MAC-SIG mailing list. >> >> >>> >>> >>>> On Sep 18, 2014, at 11:18 AM, Gang Chen <gangch...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> When R starts in GUI (e.g., /Applications/R.app/Contents/MacOS/R) on >>>> my Mac OS X 10.7.5, the startup configuration in .Rprofile works fine. >>>> However, when R starts on the terminal (e.g., >>>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R), it does not work at >>>> all. What could be the reason for the failure? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Gang >> >> David Winsemius, MD >> Alameda, CA, USA >> >> <compose-unknown-contact.jpg> Gang Chen September 18, 2014 at >> 11:18 AM >> When R starts in GUI (e.g., /Applications/R.app/Contents/MacOS/R) on >> my Mac OS X 10.7.5, the startup configuration in .Rprofile works fine. >> However, when R starts on the terminal (e.g., >> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R), it does not work at >> all. What could be the reason for the failure? >> >> Thanks, >> Gang >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
