[R] Save/Display R Work

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Ko-Kang Kevin Wang wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was tutoring in the lab when a student asked me this question.
>
> Is it possible to save the work done in R, then source it back in AND
> display all the work within R later?  I know that one can save the history
> (i.e. all the codes in a session) in *.R format, then source it back in at
> a later stage.  However the historical codes will not be displayed within
> R, only the line source(...) is displayed.
>
> I suggested the student to use notepad (or equivalent) to do the
> codes.  However I'm interested to know if there are ways to display the
> history (method other than Display File under the File menu) in R (Windows
> version).

Effectively the same thing is done by the history() command (all versions
which can save the history, which is all but Unix without readline, AFAIK).

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