[R] Logging an R session to file?

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Mike Beddo wrote:

> Prof Ripley,
> 
> It's been many years since I used S or S-plus, so it's hard to remember
> what I had then. My S book, "An Interactive Enviroment For Data Analysis
> and Graphics," by R. Becker and J. Chambers, on page 139 (Keeping Track of
> an Analysis: Sink and Diary) says "Executing diary() activates a
> diary-keeping facility in S which appends the date and time to the file
> ''diary'' in the current UNIX directory. This is followed by all
> expressions subsequently typed to S."

Indeed very many years. That's S version 1, 1984 vintage. It has not been
in S since ca 1989 as far as I know, as the 1988 S version 2 introduced an
auditing facility.

> I'm new to R, but this seems too useful a facility to be overlooked? Or
> maybe R users do it a different way?

There are lots of ways to keep a record of a session.  ESS users under
Emacs do it one way, most versions of R will record recent commands in
a file .Rhistory, in console versions you can just save the console output,
and so on.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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