[R-SIG-Mac] R.app intractable history problem

[Loren Engrav]

Maybe visible invisible unrelated to R.app but is interesting
And I have no other ".invisible" files showing

On further exploration
Turns out on the Mac Pro I also have invisible .engravRhistory and this is
the file being used by R.app
The visible engravRhistory.Rhistory must be from long back when I was
fiddling with this
So I just deleted it and R history still works fine

Cool, thanks


> From: David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 17:04:14 -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 intractable history problem
> 
> 
> On Nov 4, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Loren Engrav wrote:
> 
>> I also found the R.app management of .Rhistory difficult to understand
>> Finally gave up trying to understand and did this
>> 
>> In 64 bit R on Mac Pro
>> 
>> Checked Read history file on startup
>> 
>> Then entered ~/.engravRhistory in the R history file: AND HIT RETURN
>> 
>> (whole things fails if you do not hit return)
>> 
>> Checked Cleanup history entries
>> 
>> Now have visible file called engravRhistory.Rhistory in home folder
>> and
>> history loads Ok at startup
>> 
>> Is not pretty but am no longer fiddling with history file and losing
>> command
>> history
>> 
>> Then in 32 bit on MacBook Pro
>> 
>> Did same thing but here the file is named .engravRhistory and is
>> invisible,
>> but still works
> 
> There are several Terminal incantations that will make the default for
> Finder.app to display hidden files. Apparently you have your desktop
> machine set to one style and the other is still in the default mode.
> 
> Here's how to change it. From a Terminal window:
> defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
> And then restart the Finder with option-click on the Funder icon and
> choose relaunch. (or an alternative in the Terminal session would be
> to type:   killall Finder      )
> 
> The reverse effect is obtained by repeating with NO instead of YES.
> 
>> 
>> The "hit return" after entering the path/name might be what you are
>> missing
>> 
>> All assuming you have done nothing with .Rprofile
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> David Winsemius, MD
> Heritage Laboratories
> West Hartford, CT
>