Starting R with the --vanilla flag will cause it to ignore startup files. This is usually a quicker way to rule out such issues than tracking down where the startup files are stored. 'R --help' tells about other command line arguments that help home in on which file may be the problem.
--no-environ Don't read the site and user environment files --no-site-file Don't read the site-wide Rprofile --no-init-file Don't read the user R profile --restore Do restore previously saved objects at startup --no-restore-data Don't restore previously saved objects --no-restore-history Don't restore the R history file --no-restore Don't restore anything --vanilla Combine --no-save, --no-restore, --no-site-file, --no-init-file and --no-environ I don't know of a good way to make R report exactly which file it is processing as it starts up. Should --verbose do that? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.