Henrico: Thanks for quick reply. However, one last question: If I want to change working directory, and put setwd() in the Rprofile file, logically R will not know where the be work directory is, correct?
So, should I install R in my preferred working directory? Thanks again, in advance. Bruce ______________ Bruce Ratner PhD The Significant Statistician™ (516) 791-3544 Statistical Predictive Analytics -- www.DMSTAT1.com Machine-Learning Data Mining -- www.GenIQ.net > On Mar 24, 2017, at 3:48 AM, Enrico Schumann <e...@enricoschumann.net> wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Bruce Ratner PhD writes: > >> Hi R'ers: >> I would like to setting up a .Rprofile file with >> setwd("C:/R_WorkDir") >> set.seed(12345) >> options (prompt "> R ") >> >> --- >> Can you help providing the code or instructive link, >> I've find many links, but I can't figure it out? >> >> Thanks. >> Bruce >> > > Quoting from ?Startup: > > ,---- > | [...] unless ‘--no-init-file’ was given, R searches > | for a user profile, a file of R code. The path of > | this file can be specified by the ‘R_PROFILE_USER’ > | environment variable (and tilde expansion will be > | performed). If this is unset, a file called > | ‘.Rprofile’ is searched for in the current directory > | or in the user's home directory (in that order). The > | user profile file is sourced into the workspace. > `---- > > -- > Enrico Schumann > Lucerne, Switzerland > http://enricoschumann.net > ______________________________________________ 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.