[R] .Rhistory in R.app

[Maria Gouskova]

Renaming the .Rhistory file to .Rosxhistory didn't solve the problem
for me--the file is still empty. And I have confirmed that it is a
problem specific to R.app--running R from Terminal works fine, adding
records to the existing .Rhistory file.

Too bad there is no apparent workaround. Thanks, everyone.

Maria

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Rob Goedman <robjgoedman at me.com> wrote:
> Maria,
>
> Try changing the name of .Rhistory in the Startup preferences to something like .Rosxhistory. Press enter to make sure the change is accepted and try again.
> The problem is that R itself overwrites the file .Rhistory if it is told to save the workspace.
>
> Rob
>
>
>
> On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Maria Gouskova wrote:
>
>> Dear R users,
>>
>> I am having a minor but annoying issue with R.app. It doesn't retain
>> the history information from the previous sessions. By "history," I
>> mean a record of commands/functions entered into R rather than the
>> list of objects--that is properly recorded in the .Rdata file as well
>> as in a workspace file I save separately.
>>
>> System details:
>>
>> R version 2.9.0
>> R.app GUI 1.28
>> Mac OS 10.6.2 (MacBook, Intel 2.4 GHz, 4 Gb RAM)
>>
>> Things I've done:
>>
>> R>Preferences>Startup>History: Read history file on startup is
>> checked; R history file directory is specified with a path to my
>> preferred directory (~/Documents/...). I've tried it with the default
>> setting, too--it makes no difference.
>>
>> I've checked the permissions on the .Rhistory file. The default
>> .Rhistory file created by R has the permissions set at -rw-r--r--.
>>
>> I've moved the .Rhistory file to a different location (Desktop), so
>> that R would create a new one. Makes no difference--command history is
>> still empty at startup.
>>
>> R has kept track of history on my system in the past--the file I moved
>> to the desktop has a record of my work from about a year ago. (By the
>> way, that file's permissions are -rwx-----.) Judging by what is in the
>> old .Rhistory file, the problem started around the time of my upgrade
>> from 2.7.x to 2.8. I am reluctant to upgrade to R 2.10 in the middle
>> of a project, because every R upgrade I've done in the past has broken
>> something, and I've had nothing but grief with my open source apps
>> after upgrading to Snow Leopard. So if there is some kind of a fix
>> that doesn't involve upgrading R, I'd love to hear about it.
>>
>> Maria Gouskova
>>
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