Peter:
Thanks for reply and suggestion.
Sorry, I am not sure how to assess.
The doc is too technical for me to understand.
I found multiple instructions online and in R and RStudio books.
I'm doing what it says, but no success.
The instructions are simple as a-b-c, but some setting within the
Windows system must be the culprit.
Regards,
Bruce
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peter dalgaard wrote:
Um, tried help(.Rprofile) lately?
-pd
On 17 Apr 2017, at 00:08 , Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
On 17/04/17 08:46, John C Frain wrote:
Bruce
The official documentation for these startup files can be obtained with
the command
Help(Startup)
Minor point of order, Mr. Chairman. That should be:
help(Startup)
There is (as far as I know) no such function as "Help()". It is important to
remember that R is case sensitive.
Another point that is worthy of thought is "How in God's name would any beginner know or find
out about the usage help(Startup)?" Unless they were explicitly told about it, in the manner
which you just demonstrated. The usage gets a mention in "An Introduction to R" --- but
I had to search for it.
To me the word "startup" is not terribly intuitive. I would tend to search for "starting" rather than
"startup", I think, but I'm not sure what the average beginner would search for. A search of "An Introduction to
R" for "starting" gets seven or eight hits, one of which is relevant. So it all takes patience and persistence.
Also note that "An Introduction to R" mostly uses the word "startup" (lower case "s") and
only uses "Startup" twice. Note also that
help(startup)
fails. You have to get that initial "S" right.
This isn't a criticism of the documentation. I'm just pointing out that there
are problems, mostly insoluble. Until some clever Johnny gets on with
developing that mind_read() function referred to in fortune(182).
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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