[R] R loosing history

[kjetil@entelnet.bo]

On 6 Apr 2004 at 18:35, Martin Keller-Ressel wrote:

To do this I have defined the environment variable 
R_HISTSIZE (with value 10000, usually enough!).

Kjetil Halvorsen

> Hello,
> 
> Im running R 1.8.1 on Win2000 and frequently using the function
> history() to keep track of what I did in my R session. In a recent
> session I typed history(max=Inf) and to my surprise there were only 15
> lines of code where there should have been approx. 300 lines and I
> lost a lot of valuable work. Do you have any idea what caused this
> behaviour? help(history) didn't make me any smarter. Am I
> misunderstanding the concept of history()? I was expecting it to keep
> track of every command I type during my session.
> 
> 
> > R.version
>              _
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386
> os       mingw32
> system   i386, mingw32
> status
> major    1
> minor    8.1
> year     2003
> month    11
> day      21
> language R
> 
> 
> Any help is appreciated,
> 
> Martin Keller-Ressel
> 
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