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

[Loren Engrav]

I understand, and can work with this

But then R in the Mac dock is not of much value as it always goes "home"; no
matter what you were working on last

Loren Engrav
Univ Washington
Seattle


> From: Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 23:08:34 -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 7:48 PM, Loren Engrav wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> 
> 
> Although it would be possible to make that a configurable option, it'd
> definitely not want that. It would make R's behavior sort of random,
> because you would never know where it will start from ... a really bad
> thing (IMHO).
>   If you want to work on a specific project, it's much more convenient
> to just drag the directory on R to start it and you can then work on
> multiple projects conveniently and independently.
> 
> 
>> As for
>>> PS: Please use R-SIG-Mac for Mac-specific questions.
>> 
>> This is appearing in R-SIG-Mac.  What am I missing here?
>> 
> 
> Oops, sorry, my bad, the "To" was showing R-devel for some mysterious
> reason...
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>> 
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