[R-SIG-Mac] problems with history for R on Mac OS X

[Rob J Goedman]

Hi Patrick,

Can you let me know what your settings are in the Startup pref pane  
(Command-, and select Startup).
I'm interested in the History section settings.

Also, when you press the 'load history' button, does a finder window  
show up?

Finally, with Read history file on startup selected and a relative  
path of say ".Rhistory", a history
file should be updated and read in on startup. You can only see the  
file in a terminal with ls -l. Its
in R's working dir (unless an absolute path is specified). The  
contents is visible in the history sheet.

Rob


On Jun 7, 2005, at 11:11 AM, Patrick Bennett wrote:

> Hello Everyone -
>
> I know that this issue has been discussed on the list, but I still  
> can't figure out how to use the history commands.
>
> When I enter loadhistory() in the R Console window, I do indeed  
> load a history file, but nothing is shown in the history sheet.  
> Also, subsequent calls to savehistory() do not alter the text  
> stored in .Rhistory.
>
> Using the buttons on the history sheet, I can save my commands into  
> a file, but I am not able to load them into R (pressing the "load  
> history" button appears to have no effect).
>
> In short, I can't figure out how to save my commands into a history  
> file, or to load history files into R's memory. So, I am totally at  
> a loss...
>
> Any tips would be most welcome.
>
>
> I am using R version 2.1.0 and the version 1.11 of the Aqua GUI on  
> OS-X 10.4.
>
>
> cheers,
> pjb
>
>
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