[ESS] RFC: and .Rhistory -- new default == *no* .Rhistory ??

Frede Aakmann Tøgersen frtog at vestas.com
Fri Sep 2 07:28:57 CEST 2011


I kind of agree with Michael. I really don't intentionally use the .Rhistory as the important code is in a script file. I can live without the .Rhistory by default.

Yours sincerely / Med venlig hilsen


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ess-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:ess-help-bounces at r-project.org]
> On Behalf Of Michael Lawrence
> Sent: 2. september 2011 05:22
> To: Rodney Sparapani
> Cc: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [ESS] RFC: and .Rhistory -- new default == *no* .Rhistory ??
> 
> Kind of playing devil's advocate here, but I have learned to make use of the
> .Rhistory. Whenever I work on a particular project, I start R in that
> directory. Then I have some history to recall via the comint history
> mechanism, i.e., comint-previous-matching-input-from-input. Stuff like
> calling library() on the package I am working on, other commonly issued
> commands. Of course, any code I really care about keeping is stored in
> separate files. It's just nice to have context-dependent shortcuts. That
> said, I probably would end up turning off the .Rhistory, because one has to
> be very careful to avoid dropping a .Rhistory in the wrong spot.
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Yihui Xie wrote:
> >
> >> I never use .Rhistory. Thanks!
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Yihui
> >>
> >
> > Me neither.
> >
> > Rodney
> >
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