Proper Way to Load Libraries in .Rprofile

[nateybear]

I'm raising this issue to ask for advice on library loading when the RCall session starts up. I have a .Rprofile in my working directory like this:

print("inside of R profile")
require(tidyverse)

I would expect the tidyverse library to be loaded and available in my REPL, however I get an error:

I like to load a "base" set of R libraries in my .Rprofile for when my R session starts up, and the behavior of RCall does not line up in this sense with my typical R workflow.

Any advice on loading libraries in a startup script is appreciated!

[simonbyrne]

What OS are you on?

[nateybear]

@simonbyrne macOS Big Sur (11.6.1), I'm running Julia 1.6.3 and R 4.0.2