Hi I am running under Windows XP using R2.6.1.
I pasted your code in my Rprofile.site in the etc directory and it worked for me. All I can suugest is: 1. Check you really put it in the etc directory. (Do you have an old version of R somewhere ...?) 2. Is it really called Rprofile.site. (Not .RProfile.site?) 3. Is your Rprofile.site protected against read? Or the etc directory? Regards JS --- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fernando Saldanha Sent: 16 January 2008 14:00 To: R-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Rprofile.site not executed? It seems that my Rprofile.site file is not executed when I start R. To test this I included the following code in that file: .First <- function(){ cat("\nWelcome at", date(), "\n") flush.console() } When I start R the message above is not displayed. I am running R 2.6.1 (rgui.exe) under Vista Home Premium. The Rprofile.site is in the etc folder and the R_PROFILE variable has the value "". I looked in the help (?Startup) but could not figure out what is wrong. Any suggestions? Thanks. FS ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.