Re: [Rd] Rprofile not executed in R 2.2.0 alpha for Windows

2005-09-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Do you mean R_HOME/etc/Rprofile (not Profile)? That is not supposed to be executed: see ?Startup. See the NEWS item o R_HOME/etc/Rprofile is no longer looked for if R_HOME/etc/Rprofile.site does not exist. (This has been undocumented since R 1.4.0.) We will rename the

[Rd] Rprofile not executed in R 2.2.0 alpha for Windows

2005-09-15 Thread John Fox
Dear list members (esp. Duncan), I've run into the following curious problem with Version 2.2.0 alpha for Windows: Options in the Profile file in R's etc directory don't appear to be set. (I habitually uncomment options(chmhelp=TRUE), to no effect in this case.) As far as I can see, the only thin