[R] How to permanently remove [Previously saved workspace restored]

[Joshua Wiley]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Joshua,
>
>> list.files(path = getwd(), all.files = TRUE)
>  [3]
> ".RData"
>  [4]
> ".Rhistory"
> .Rhistory and .RDate are there.

Note that these files start with a "."

>
> But I can't find .RDate on Windows Explorer.  Only .Rhistory is there.

This is likely a "feature" of Windows Explorer....certain types of
files are hidden by default (like those that start with ".").  You can
adjust this behavior in the folder options (if the idea of
protected/hidden files and folder options all sounds new to you, now
is a great opportunity to spend some time exploring your operating
system, learning how it works and how to use it at a more serious
level than the basic user it assumes....Google is your friend here,
there are literally thousands of articles, walkthroughs, and tutorials
on different aspects of Windows).

>> rm (list = ls(all=TRUE))

This does NOT delete the workspace, it just clears your worksapce of
any objects.

>> q()
> save working image

Now you will have saved your current worksapce (which if you just used
rm() as above, will be empty, but still there).
>
> On next start of R
> [Previously saved workspace restored]
> still popup

Now you probably just restored an empty workspace.  This is not a
problem, it is normal R behavior and is a sign that everything is
working as expected.

>
>
> B.R.
> Stephen L