[R] setting history file

[Edna Bell]

I am using R-2.7.2 on Windows XP.

Sorry for the problems.

Sincerely,
Edna


On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Edna Bell wrote:
>
>> Dear R Gurus:
>>
>> I would like to set the number of commands in the history file as 50
>> rather than 25.
>
> It is neither of those.  That is the default value of max.show, not of the
> size of the file.
>
>> I would do this in the .First function.
>>
>> How do I set this, please?  I tried
>> history(max=50)
>> and it prints what it has.
>
> Yes, but that is the number shown, not the number saved.
>
> You failed to follow the posting guide and tell us *anything* about your OS
> etc.  But probably ?history tells you how to set the size of the history
> file via environment variable R_HISTSIZE.
>
>> I just want to set the size in .First.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Sincerely,
>> Edna
>>
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