[R] problem with the .Rhistory

[Prof Brian Ripley]

It depends on your platform.  E.g. on Unix/Linux, ?savehistory says

Details:

     This works under the 'readline' and GNOME interfaces, but not if
     'readline' is not available (for example, in batch use).

To be able to help you further, we would need quite precise details of 
your platform and which interface you are using.


On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Peyrard Nathalie wrote:

> The history function doesn't seems to work when I am working with R.
> I have a .Rhistory file in my working directory and I have tried
>          savehistory(file = ".Rhistory")
> or the command given in the history help :
>          .Last <- function()
>                    if(interactive()) try(savehistory(".Rhistory"))
> 
> and I  get the same error message
> Error in savehistory(file) : no history available to save

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