On 14/03/2010 1:23 AM, john_j_carr...@mail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am a student studying Biostatistics at University. We have been advised to install R and R commander. I managed to do this successfully, except I wasn't able to complete the final step - which would enable both R and R commander to launch when I open the R icon on my desktop.
However, I haven't been able to save it and for this to work.
The last instructions we were given are:
3. If you wish to load the R Commander automatically when R starts, first find
R's etc directory. In my computer, it is: C:\Program Files\R\RTopic
1: The Role of Statistics in Health: Populations and Samples
PUBH7630 Course Notes 1-23
2.10.1\etc . Right click on the file Rprofile.site and select 'Open
With'. Open the file with the 'notepad' program.
4. Go to the bottom of the brief file and copy/paste the following at the end:
local({old <- getOption("defaultPackages")
options(defaultPackages = c(old, "Rcmdr"))})
(Don't include any # symbols like the already-existing text has.)
5. Save the file and then close it.
6. Next time you open R, R Commander will also pop open. How about checking
now?
7. You can check if this has worked by first closing down R. To exit R simply
use the
File => Exit menus or type q() at the R command line prompt. If you want
to close both R and R Commander at the same time, use the File => Exit
menus in R Commander and click Exit => from Commander and R.)
8. Then reopen it (click the R icon or on your desktop or run R from the
Programs
menu and then reopening it). R and R Commander will sit as two separate
windows on your computer.
NOTE: If you have not set R to have 'SDI' then the R Commander Messages box will
give you a warning that R Commander works best with SDI. It may not run things
the way
it should, so please follow the instructions to set R with SDI. Ensure that you
have done
the steps for all shortcuts to the R program (desktop icon, quick launch icon,
start menu,
etc).
However, it is not saving it after I add the below info after the RProfile.site
in notepad
local({old <- getOption("defaultPackages")
options(defaultPackages = c(old, "Rcmdr"))})
It comes up with a message it cannot create or save the file.
I would appreciate any assistance as soon as possible (so I don't get too far behind in my studies).
You don't appear to have permission to edit that file. If you own the
computer, you could run notepad as an administrator. If you don't, then
you can put those two lines into a file named .Rprofile and put that
file into the directory listed by
Sys.getenv("R_USER")
This is a little tricky to do in Windows, because Notepad won't like
that filename. You can do it from R by running these lines:
setwd(Sys.getenv("R_USER"))
writeLines('
local({old <- getOption("defaultPackages")
options(defaultPackages = c(old, "Rcmdr"))})
', ".Rprofile")
Duncan Murdoch
Many Thanks,
John
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