rstudio / rstudio/packrat

Packrat: .RPROFILE Improval

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Description

A Known limitation of packrat is that the project Level .RProfile overrides the System default .RProfile

And this can be easily fixed with a single line of code in the .RProfile packrat creates by default:

if(file.exists("~/.Rprofile")) source("~/.Rprofile")

Therefore, I could do a "Pull Request" with this line fix to the packrat .RProfile source code if appropriate.

Thank you.
Juan

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Research direction

Inspect the packrat source that generates the project-level .RProfile and find the default profile contents. Confirm how the generated profile currently handles the system profile, add the proposed sourcing behavior, and verify that a project profile preserves the user's ~/.Rprofile settings.

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Tech stack
r
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Bug
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2/5
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