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

[James Reilly]

I think you missed the dot at the end, that's all. You want:
open -a R .

James
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James Reilly
Department of Statistics, University of Auckland
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On 9/12/07 2:13 PM, John Maindonald wrote:
> I notice that 4.3.3 says"
> 
> "Finally it is possible to use a specific directory for a single
> R session by dragging a folder onto the R.app icon. If R.app
> is not runnig, this will cause R.app to be started in the
> directory corresponding to the folder dragged. The same
> can be achieved on the command line - for example
> open -a R . causes R.app to be started using the current
> directory as the startup working directory."
> 
> The final statement seems incorrect, at all events without
> some further pre-conditions:
> 
> At the terminal:
> 
>   ch2$ pwd
>   /Users/johnm/r/ch2
>   ch2$ ls -lt .RData
>   -rw-r--r--  1 johnm  johnm  2980  9 Dec 11:31 .RData
>   ch2$ open -a R
> 
> At the R console that is started:
> 
>   > getwd()
>   [1] "/Users/johnm/r"
>   > sessionInfo()
>   R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)
>   i386-apple-darwin8.10.1
> 
>   locale:
>   en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/C/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8
> 
>   attached base packages:
>   [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> Incidentally is making copies of R.app an appropriate way to
> allow multiple simultaneous sessions of the R Gui? Or is there
> some more direct way to achieve this?
> 
> John Maindonald.
> 
> John Maindonald             email: john.maindonald at anu.edu.au
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> 
> 
> On 9 Dec 2007, at 10:57 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
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