Oct 18, 2017 · R_HOME: the directory in which R is installed. Find out where your R_HOME is with the R.home() command. HOME, the user’s home directory. Can ask R where this is with, path.expand("~") R’s current working directory. This is reported by getwd(). Note although there maybe different R-Profile files R will only use one in a given session.

Dec 6, 2012 · There is also the tricky possibility that your profile files do modify the current directory at startup, in which case you would have to start a "no-profile" session (run R --no-site-file --no-init-file) before running the code above.

May 29, 2015 · In Windows, you set the R_USER profile by opening up a command line and running: SETX R_PROFILE_USER "C:/.../.Rprofile" Where (obviously) the path is the path to your desired .Rpofile. In R, you can check that it worked: Sys.getenv("R_PROFILE_USER") Should return the path you specified. Note that you likely need to have all R sessions closed before setting the R_USER variable.

Apr 15, 2017 · The R docs should help to see how to deal with .Rprofiles. Execute the following at the console: > ?Startup The relevant portion of this indicates that you need to put your project .Rprofile in the initial working directory that will be loaded when starting the project. Thus if your project is ~/foo/foobar.Rproj, then you should have your profile be …

Oct 23, 2014 · When starting RStudio in an alternate working directory the .Rprofile file located within that directory is sourced. If (and only if) there is not an .Rprofile file in the alternate directory then the global default profile (e.g. ~/.Rprofile) is sourced instead. How do I force to load the global .Rprofile at all times? Small example.

Jul 28, 2009 · I have always found startup profile files of other people both useful and instructive about the language. Moreover, while I have some customization for Bash and Vim, I have nothing for R. For example, one thing I always wanted is different colors for input and output text in a window terminal, and maybe even syntax highlighting.

Jul 3, 2013 · I want to add some customization to my .Rprofile. However, I cannot seem to find the file. Many have said it is located in my ~/ folder. I have unhidden all my hidden files and do not seem to find...

Rprofile.site is the site-wide startup profile - it gets searched for, and run, BEFORE .Rprofile and it will overwrite the base package. . Rprofile is a user startup profile that gets searched for and sourced AFTER Rprofile.site and loads stuff into the …

Feb 23, 2015 · I have an .RProfile file that I set up on my Mac Laptop. When I tried to save the file after coding it in BBEdit, the system objected, saying I must give it a name that doesn't begin with the dot. I

Nov 4, 2021 · Essentially, R will only load the project specific .Rprofile and .Renviron files, provided they are defined. That said, some libraries and functions would be prudent to put in the user level .Rprofile, as I need it pretty much all the time (e.g.