[R-SIG-Mac] R.app ?bug or me

[Loren Engrav]

Thank you for the help

Ah so, default is in Preferences and the new is under Misc in the menu bar
I can do that and will

But might it not be more convenient if on R.app start you went to where you
were last time, since most often you wish to go to the place you just left

As for
> PS: Please use R-SIG-Mac for Mac-specific questions.

This is appearing in R-SIG-Mac.  What am I missing here?

Thanks again.

Loren Engrav
Univ Washington
Seattle



> From: Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 18:57:14 -0500
> To: Loren Engrav <engrav at u.washington.edu>
> Cc: "r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch" <r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app ?bug or me
> 
> 
> On Dec 8, 2007, at 6:37 PM, Loren Engrav wrote:
> 
>> Using Mac 10.4.11
>> And sessionInfo() say
>> 
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)
>> powerpc-apple-darwin8.10.1
>> 
>> locale:
>> en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>> 
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>> 
>> 
>> Directory is ABC and history is XYZ
>> So I change directory to FGH and history to QRS
>> Then I quit R and say save workspace
>> 
>> Then I start R
>> And am back to workspace ABC and history XYZ
> 
> Well, if ABC and XYZ is in home and you didn't change the default
> settings and started R.app directly then that is exactly as expected.
> 
> 
>> Would seem I should be at FGH and QRS
>> 
> 
> Why? That would be quite bad as FGH and QRS have nothing to do with
> your home. The whole point of changing a directory is usually exactly
> the fact that you don't want to overwrite the workspace in your home.
> 
> 
>> What am I missing? Is it staring me in the face and I cannot see it?
>> 
> 
> I'd say reading 4.3.3 in the R for Mac FAQ may possibly explain this a
> bit ...
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> PS: Please use R-SIG-Mac for Mac-specific questions.
>