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

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I posted a response earlier but it hasn't shown up as it's
moderated... But I just wanted to mention again - in my case, even if
I enter my own filename with or without dot anywhere, R.app
mysteriously changes it to .Rhistory, in whatever directory I specify!
I look for files with ls -al in Terminal.

I've now tried installing R 2.10 and going back to R 2.7 on two
computers (iMac and Macbook both running 10.5.8) and get the same
behavior.

On Nov 4, 4:34 pm, Loren Engrav <eng... at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> 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 <dwinsem... at comcast.net>
> > Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 17:04:14 -0500
> > To: Loren Engrav <eng... at u.washington.edu>
> > Cc: "r-sig-... at stat.math.ethz.ch" <r-sig-... 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
>
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