On 11 February 2010 at 12:08, Wolfgang Raffelsberger wrote: | I'm maintaining central R installation (Linux) for our institute. The | startup screen of R traditionally echoes some messages (starting with "R | version ...Copyright (C).. The R Foundation for Statistical | Computing...") and I'd like to display for example right after these | messages some other messages about our specific setup, how to contact me | etc ... | What would be the best place to add this ? | | I've been looking into the bin/ directory (ie /linux/local/lib64/R/bin) | but I'm not shure about the best place/way for such messages. | On Windows I've used the etc/Rprofile.site for somehow similar issues, | but I haven't seen any equivalent on our linux installation.
You can use the same file -- $(R_HOME)/etc/Rprofile.site -- see help(Startup). For Debian/Ubuntu we also store it in /etc/R/Rprofile.site and soft-link it back to $(R_HOME)/etc but R only knows the latter location. Hth, Dirk -- Registration is open for the 2nd International conference R / Finance 2010 See http://www.RinFinance.com for details, and see you in Chicago in April! ______________________________________________ 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.
