[R] problem with .Rhistory

[Erin Hodgess]

Dear R People:

I just updated to R-2.10.1 on an Ubuntu Karmic Koala and am getting
the following with saving .Rhistory

erin at erin-desktop:~$ R

R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

  Natural language support but running in an English locale

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.

[Previously saved workspace restored]

> x <- rnorm(50)
> x
 [1] -0.55160677  1.19314691 -0.67204863  0.55525355  2.59352717  0.47074244
 [7] -0.36419243  1.52708272 -1.01025314 -0.44993150  0.28994053  0.26621268
[13]  0.07875700  1.16412245  1.45959393 -2.20142095 -1.88232115 -0.88618405
[19] -0.10710851  1.14056187 -0.25281217 -2.04243732  0.96971503  1.34918394
[25]  0.18340899  0.45912030 -0.53483682 -1.28663218  0.84678052 -0.84877908
[31]  1.79046804  0.64630400 -0.76869219  2.53632988  0.99790426  0.65603726
[37]  0.05602182  0.55259259 -0.82510627  0.90923321  0.47891099  0.84264193
[43] -0.12863392 -0.01726952  1.78716000 -0.17735857  0.12812448  2.06117868
[49]  0.08759399  1.98278513
> q()
Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: y
Warning message:
problem in saving the history file '.Rhistory'
erin at erin-desktop:~$ R

R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

  Natural language support but running in an English locale

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.

[Previously saved workspace restored]

> objects()
[1] "x"
> y <- 1:5
> q()
Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: y
Warning message:
problem in saving the history file '.Rhistory'
erin at erin-desktop:~$

Has anyone seen this before, please?

Thanks,
Erin


-- 
Erin Hodgess
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com