[R-SIG-Mac] R.app history forgets

[Loren Engrav]

Ok, so Rdata goes to the directory one is working in; and so will have
Rdata's in many folders which seems strange

As for Rhistory if one declines to save workspace, Rhistory is written to
the directory specified; if one saves workspace Rhistory is written to both
the directory specified and the workspace directory, ie to both; this also
seems strange

And the troubled history is attached

This seems problematic; not knowing where these files are going and winding
up with many; and then the forgetful Rhistory as well

Thank you


> From: Rob Goedman <robjgoedman at me.com>
> Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 12:20:51 -0700
> 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 history forgets
> 
> Loren,
> 
> Thanks for the screen shot.
> 
> A bit more experimentation and a quick look at the code refreshed my
> memory.
> 
> If you exit R, .RData is always written to the directory you are in.
> 
> In your setting, on q() to quit, R.app should ask for conformation to
> save the workspace.
> 
> If you don't change your directory it should create a .RData in your
> home directory (that's where your R.app started).
> 
> Preferences do not provide help here, but you could create a .Last
> function with a save.image() command in it to force storing the .RData
> file to a fixed directory. In that case you can opt to set the Quit
> preferences to 'No' (don't ask me to store the workspace).
> 
> For history its a (tiny) bit more flexible. By selecting an absolute
> path, like you have in your setting, it will always store the current
> available history commands in that file (including the ones that were
> read in during startup, so the new commands are at the end of the file).
> 
> If this does not work for you, can you send me your ~/.Rhistory file
> after executing a last new command in R.app, maybe something like
> 'testHist <- 1' and quitting R.app?
> 
> As you found in the archives, a few folks did have trouble (usually
> because R.app could not write to the selected directory).
> 
> After this email it might be better to take this discussion off-line.
> 
> Regards,
> Rob
> 
> 
> On May 5, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Loren Engrav wrote:
> 
>> Thank you
>> attached
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Rob Goedman <robjgoedman at me.com>
>>> Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 11:36:25 -0700
>>> 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 history forgets
>>> 
>>> Loren,
>>> 
>>> Can you send me a screen copy of the Startup preferences ( with the
>>> cursor inside the Startup Preferences window, press Command-Shift-4,
>>> followed by pressing the spacebar, followed by a click of the mouse
>>> button, this should write it to your Deskop as 'Picture 1').
>>> 
>>> Rob
>>> 
>>> On May 5, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Loren Engrav wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Mac OS 10.5.5 and R.app 2.9.0
>>>> 
>>>> I start up, run a few things, and quit (w or wo save) and no
>>>> directory
>>>> changes
>>>> 
>>>> Then I restart and the recent commands are no longer in Rhistory
>>>> 
>>>> The only box I have checked in History preferences is Read on
>>>> Startup and I
>>>> have max entries set to 5000
>>>> 
>>>> I see queries about this before but I could find no solution
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you
>>>> 
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>> 
>> <Picture 3.png>
> 
> On May 5, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Loren Engrav wrote:
> 
>> Thank you
>> The return before clicking anywhere else solved that problem, clever
>> 
>> So I trash all invisible .Rhistory and .Rdata files
>> Then made a new folder (called R_History_Data) and aim Preferences
>> at this
>> folder (using the return)
>> Then run R.app and yes, I have one .Rhistory and one .Rdata in that
>> folder
>> 
>> But then I change the working directory and do some stuff
>> Then quit and save working directory
>> And now I have two of each invisible files, one in R_History_Data
>> and one in
>> the working directory folder
>> 
>> So it still appears as I move from directory to directory I will leave
>> invisible .Rhistory and .Rdata files all over
>> 
>> Is it possible to have Rhistory and Rdata always written to the
>> R_History_Data folder?

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