[R-SIG-Mac] Annoying newline character saved in command history

[Simon Urbanek]

Sören,

I think you may want to enable "Cleanup history entries" in the R.app  
preferences. In fact that's the default, so I suspect you may have  
disabled it at some point.

Cheers,
Simon


On Feb 14, 2009, at 12:09 , soeren.vogel at eawag.ch wrote:

> Dear R.app developers
>
> Love your nice application, thank you!
>
> When using R.app, the command history also saves newline characters  
> executing commands. That is, every time when repeating commands via  
> the arrow-up keystroke, another newline character is added to the  
> command.
>
> Example output from an operation:
>
> <pre>
> > x <- seq(1:2); x
> [1] 1 2
> > x <- seq(1:2); x
> [1] 1 2
> >
> > x <- seq(1:2); x
> [1] 1 2
> >
> >
> >
> </pre>
>
> This might be a bug since the final newline character marks the  
> command execution but not a real new line. This behaviour does not  
> occur when executing R via the Terminal.app.
>
> Sören
>
> Notes:
>
> R 2.8.1 GUI 1.27 Tiger build 32-bit (5301) running on a MacBook Pro  
> with Tiger 10.5.6
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
> i386-apple-darwin8.11.1
>
> locale:
> de_CH.UTF-8/de_CH.UTF-8/C/C/de_CH.UTF-8/de_CH.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  stats     methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] lattice_0.17-20 foreign_0.8-31
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] grid_2.8.1  tools_2.8.1
>
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