searchhist = function(pattern){
    histfile = tempfile()
    savehistory(histfile)
    myHist = readLines(file(histfile))
    ret = myHist[grep(pattern, myHist)]
    return(ret)
}
searchhist('data')
searchhist('^lm')
searchhist('hist')


On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:03 AM, andrewH <ahoerner@rprogress.org> wrote:

> Is there any way to search the console during an interactive session? I've
> looked and looked, and can not find one.  In some add-on package, maybe?
>
> Sorry to be so basic, but help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> andrewH
>
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