history() on R doesn't work

Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com
Fri Oct 8 12:20:52 CEST 2004


If I'm not mistaken, ESS runs R with --no-readline, so there's no history to
save by savehistory().  You should save the session transcript and clean out
the output part.  (There's an ESS function for doing that.)

Andy

> From: Meinhard Ploner
> 
> Hi!
> 
> On my Mac OS X, I called from emacs/ESS R 1.9.1 by M-x R.
> This works fine, but calling
> 
>  > history()
> Error in savehistory(file) : no history available to save
> 
> I get the this error message.
> Why?
> 
> Thanks,
> Meinhard
> 
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