[R] Deleted objects keep coming back

Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Wed Jan 26 01:47:29 CET 2005


"Ken Termiso" <jerk_alert at hotmail.com> writes:

> Ah! I think this is what happened -- whenever I restarted R, it would
> automatically load the previous workspace and its objects (call this
> workspace 1). Then, when I would attempt to load another workspace
> (call this workspace 2), it would retain the objects from workspace 1
> in ADDITION to the objects loaded from workspace 2.
> 
> If I load up R, it will say previous workspace restored. If I then
> type >rm(list=ls()) to delete all objects, and then load another
> workspace, it will only have the objects from the workspace I loaded...
> 
> Am I correct here?

Yes, but I think you'd be better off to learn about R's command line
argument in particular --no-restore and --vanilla. If you're not
starting R from the command line, I'm sure there's a way to pass
arguments anyway...
 

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