Re: [Rd] Ignoring .Rprofile when installing a package

2011-02-20 Thread Keith
Jon, I have had a similar problem when installing librarys. I have written a script which uses biocLite to install librarys. I have included the following code which hides .Rprofile by renaming it and then renaming it back again after it has finished. #Hide .Rprofile whilst this script is run

Re: [Rd] Ignoring .Rprofile when installing a package

2011-02-18 Thread Jon Clayden
I would also be interested in knowing what the rationale is for this. Moreover, it seems that the "standard" (and documented) approach to this of calling "options(defaultPackages=c(...))" in ~/.Rprofile does not get ignored when installing. The environment variable approach may work, but it seems

Re: [Rd] Ignoring .Rprofile when installing a package

2011-02-16 Thread Brian G. Peterson
On 02/16/2011 10:57 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: The most obvious answer is not to do that. You have not used the standard mechanism to to do that (which should work here as R CMD INSTALL overrides that one). It's all in ?Startup (look for R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES). Note that R CMD INSTALL is not men

Re: [Rd] Ignoring .Rprofile when installing a package

2011-02-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
The most obvious answer is not to do that. You have not used the standard mechanism to to do that (which should work here as R CMD INSTALL overrides that one). It's all in ?Startup (look for R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES). The simplest way to ignore ~/.Rprofile is to set R_PROFILE_USER to something el

[Rd] Ignoring .Rprofile when installing a package

2011-02-16 Thread Jon Clayden
Dear all, Is there a way to force R CMD INSTALL to ignore ~/.Rprofile and similar? I presume it sources these startup files for a reason, but I've found that it can cause confusion or problems. In particular, my ~/.Rprofile loads a few packages which I very frequently use, but this stops me from i