.gitignore inside .Rprofile.d

[Ergodic-Commiter]

Disclaimer: I just recently started using your package. I find it really great, and I'm still getting the hang of it.

I have setup my local ~/.Rprofile.d And then I added a project one .../my-project/.Rprofile.d

The project profile has:

• 0-local-profile.R which handles what's found in ~/.Rprofile.d
• 1-proj-profile.R self contained profile
• .gitignore to ignore the first 0-local-profile.R

So the issue is that startup() cannot process .gitignore because it is not an R-profile.
And I have two questions:

• What other way is there to handle project and local profiles in parallel?
• Is there a way to make this setup work, and ask startup() to simply ignore .gitignore?

Thank you.

[HenrikBengtsson]

Does startup::startup(all=TRUE) provide what you need?

I don't understand the .gitignore part

[Ergodic-Commiter]

Thank you for your answer. I'll write in three bullets:

• Explain what I mean with .gitignore.
• Tell you about a workaround I found.
• If you still want to get to the bottom, I'll comment on parameters all=TRUE, paths=c(...)

1. In the vignette, you mention that file ending with *\.(txt|md|~), *\.(Rhistory|RData|DS_Store) or starting with \.\.* are ignored. I'm thinking along the lines of ignoring .gitignore as well.

I'll make a case, with a -hopefully- simple example.

# ~/.Rprofile
print("My local functions, which other developers don't need or even use.")
print("May include fortunes:fortune(), or set local repository")

# my-proj/R-src/.Rprofile.d/0-local.R
source(~/.Rprofile)  
print("I thought to call them here, since I set up my proj profile.")

# my-proj/R-src/.Rprofile.d/1-package.R
proj_function <- function(x) print("Project uses this function.")

# my-proj/R-src/.Rprofile.d/.gitignore
0-local.R 

This last file throws an error as it is in .Rprofile.d

2. The workaround is to ignore 0-local.R from an outer .gitignore

# my-proj/R-src/.gitignore
.Rprofile.d/0-local.R

This is very close to ideal, so happy to live with that.

3. Going back to the ideal solution, I didn't find how to make all=TRUE help.
   But partially found the following does: (using magrittr pipes)

"my-proj/R-src/.Rprofile.d" %>%
    list.files(all.files=TRUE, full.names=TRUE) %>%
    str_subset("/\\.", negate=TRUE) %>%  # Includes /.gitignore and others. 
    rprofile_d(paths=.)

I mean partially, because I can only call rprofile_d like this, but not startup.

So one final question, and one proposal:

i) Is there a parameter to ignore other files (like *.(txt|md|~)?

ii) if you think the .gitignore case is a strong one, I can look into the code and try a Pull Request.

Thank you =D

[HenrikBengtsson]

This should be fixed in startup (>= 0.21.0-9010).