[R] How to get commands history as a character vector instead of displaying them?

[Erich Neuwirth]

Your original question probably is answered by
dev.cur and dev.list




Yihui Xie wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I want to get the commands history as a character vector instead of
> just displaying them, but the function history() just returns NULL. I
> checked the source code of 'history' and could not find a solution.
> Anybody has an idea? Thanks!
> 
> P. S. My original problem is, when a user opens a graphics device like
> png() or pdf(), I want to know the file name used by this device. I
> thought history() would help, but it could not.
> 
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
> i386-pc-mingw32
> 
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=Chinese_People's Republic of
> China.936;LC_CTYPE=Chinese_People's Republic of
> China.936;LC_MONETARY=Chinese_People's Republic of
> China.936;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Chinese_People's Republic of China.936
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> Regards,
> Yihui
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