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

[Rob Goedman]

This is clearly a bug. Thanks Gaël! Just now tried it (on SnowLeopard)  
and it shows the same behavior.

In R.app, q() should also get to the point where it will close the  
console window (which is where we update preferences, history etc).  
I'll check the sources to see if and why it is not (or no longer?)  
getting to that point.

Thanks for staying with this!

Rob


On Nov 5, 2009, at 7:52 AM, Vishy Iyer wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Gaël Laurans <glaurans at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>
>> The way you quit R seems to make a difference. If you use the menu  
>> or the
>> Cmd+Q shortcut, R.app will save its history in the file defined in  
>> the
>> preferences, but if you type quit() at the R prompt, R.app will not  
>> save its
>> history at all.
>>
>>
> Wow, this completely solved my problem! I couldn't find this  
> documented
> anywhere, but as you said, if I quit R.app using the menu command or  
> Cmd+Q
> or the switch icon on the top right of the GUI, it writes the  
> history file
> properly. I don't even need to save the workspace anymore! But if I  
> quit
> with q(), which is what I was doing all this time before,  
> the .Rhistory file
> was always empty. I guess I was running into the problem of R always
> overwriting R.app.
>
> I still need to check into the issue of the renaming of the history  
> file
> (changing automatically from my name to ".Rhistory") but I bet it's  
> related
> to the same thing of how I quit. Rob to answer your question, I can  
> indeed
> make changes to the preferences and they ARE carried over into the  
> next
> session (as long as it's not renaming the history file). So thanks  
> again for
> all the help!
> V.
>
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