[ESS] R is restoring "previously saved workspace" without me asking it to

Mark Kimpel mwkimpel at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 19:11:30 CEST 2008


That is what I "always" do. Apparently, I slipped. Since I "never" do
this, I have put the following in my .Rprofile (Linux). Of course, you
should only use this if you NEVER want to INTENTIONALLY save your
workspace.

setwd("~/myRfiles")
system("find ./ -name '.RData' -print | xargs rm")

Mark

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:43 AM, François Michonneau
<francois.michonneau at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> If you don't want a .Rdata file to be created just close your R session by
> typing q("no").
> Hope this helps
> François
>
> Mark Kimpel wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, I thought it was something simple like that. I have no idea
>> how/when that .Rdata file was created, but I'll remove it. Mark
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Mark Kimpel <mwkimpel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> When initiating an instance of R from within ESS-emacs (most recent
>>>> versions) a new behavior has appeared -- R begins with "[Previously
>>>> saved workspace restored]". I haven't seen this before nor do I know
>>>> how to turn it off. I never save R workspaces but frequently kill R by
>>>> closing an emacs window.
>>>> This is most likely something I inadvertently initiated but I'll be
>>>> darned if I know how. Any thoughts on turning it off?
>>>
>>> This behavior is not ESS-specific.  If there is a saved worksheet in
>>> the directory where you start R and if you do not use the flag
>>> --no-restore when starting R, it will restore the saved worksheet.
>>> The simple fix is to remove the saved worksheet file, which is called
>>> .RData under Linux.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
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>



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Indiana University School of Medicine

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