[R-SIG-Mac] getting history() to work

Rob Goedman robjgoedman at me.com
Sun Apr 11 23:13:47 CEST 2010


David,

From R.app you can't. History is kept in a separate file as specified by the Startup preferences.

In your case I don't think RHOME is defined, try '~/Rhistory' or '~/.Rosxhistory' in the Startup preferences, enter a few commands and quit R.app ( e.g.Apple/Command-Q, little red button or from the menu, NOT q() ) and restart R.app to see if the commands are in the history list.

Rob

On Apr 8, 2010, at 1:56 AM, David wrote:

> When I type history() to the R console, I get a new window that is
> always blank. How can I get history() working?
> 
> Here are the details of my set-up. In the plist, a number of keys were
> listed that looked like passwords. Because I didn't understand the
> security implications (almost certainly non-existent), I mangled
> these.
> 
> Mac Os X 10.4.11 (upgrading to Leopard as soon as I get some free
> time)
> PowerPC G4
> 
> response to typing 'version' to R console
> platform       powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.1
> arch           powerpc
> os             darwin8.11.1
> system         powerpc, darwin8.11.1
> status
> major          2
> minor          8.0
> year           2008
> month          10
> day            20
> svn rev        46754
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)
> 
> About R:
> R.app GUI 1.26 (5256), S.Urbanek & S.M.Iacus, © R Foundation for
> Statistical Computing, 2008
> 
> Open R. getwd(). Close R. Remove .Rhistory, using shell command. Open
> R. Type a few commands. Close R. No file called .Rhistory.
> 
> Response to Sys.getenv()
> AWK
>                                                           "awk"
>                                                         CVS_RSH
>                                                           "ssh"
>                                                         DISPLAY
>                                                            ":0"
>                                                          EDITOR
>                                                            "vi"
>                                                           EGREP
>                                              "/usr/bin/grep -E"
>                                                            HOME
>                                                   "/Users/dbae"
>                                                            LANG
>                                                   "en_GB.UTF-8"
>                                                            LN_S
>                                                         "ln -s"
>                                                            MAKE
>                                                          "make"
>                                                              MY
>                                 "/Users/dbae/Documents/_MyData"
>                                                           PAGER
>                                                 "/usr/bin/less"
>                                                            PATH
>                  "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin"
>                                                            PERL
>                                                 "/usr/bin/perl"
>                                                          R_ARCH
>                                                          "/ppc"
>                                                       R_BROWSER
>                                                 "/usr/bin/open"
>                                                       R_DOC_DIR
>    "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.8/Resources/doc"
>                                                      R_DVIPSCMD
>                                                         "false"
>                                              R_GUI_APP_REVISION
>                                                          "5256"
>                                               R_GUI_APP_VERSION
>                                                          "1.26"
>                                                      R_HISTFILE
>                                               "$HOME/.Rhistory"
>                                                      R_HISTSIZE
>                                                          "1000"
>                                                          R_HOME
>        "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.8/Resources"
>                                                   R_INCLUDE_DIR
> "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.8/Resources/include"
>                                                      R_LATEXCMD
>                                                         "false"
>                                                          R_LIBS
>                          "$HOME/lib/R:/usr/local/lib/R-contrib"
>                                                     R_LIBS_SITE
>                                                              ""
>                                                     R_LIBS_USER
>                                       "~/Library/R/2.8/library"
>                                                  R_MAKEINDEXCMD
>                                                         "false"
>                                                     R_PAPERSIZE
>                                                            "a4"
>                                                     R_PDFVIEWER
>                                                 "/usr/bin/open"
>                                                      R_PLATFORM
>                                    "powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.1"
>                                                      R_PRINTCMD
>                                                           "lpr"
>                                                        R_RD4DVI
>                                                            "ae"
>                                                        R_RD4PDF
>                                                   "times,hyper"
>                                                R_SESSION_TMPDIR
>                                               "/tmp/RtmpudXUd0"
>                                                     R_SHARE_DIR
>  "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.8/Resources/share"
>                                                      R_UNZIPCMD
>                                                "/usr/bin/unzip"
>                                              R_USE_AQUA_SUBDIRS
>                                                           "yes"
>                                                        R_ZIPCMD
>                                                  "/usr/bin/zip"
>                                               SECURITYSESSIONID
>                                                        "a0da50"
>                                                             SED
>                                                  "/usr/bin/sed"
>                                                           SHELL
>                                                     "/bin/tcsh"
>                                                   SSH_AUTH_SOCK
>                                   "/tmp/502/SSHKeychain.socket"
>                                                             TAR
>                                                           "tar"
>                                                            USER
>                                                          "dbae"
>                   _GOOGLE_GILD_RUNTIME_FRAMEWORK_ABSOLUTE_PATH_
>                     "/Library/Google/Frameworks/Gild.framework"
>                                         __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING
>                                                     "0x1F6:0:0"
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Property List Dump
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://
> www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
> <plist version="1.0">
> <dict>
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> 	<string>NO</string>
> 	<key>Background Color</key>
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> 	<key>Cleanup history entries</key>
> 	<string>YES</string>
> 	<key>Disable R signal handlers</key>
> 	<string>NO</string>
> 	<key>DocHelpSearch</key>
> 	<array>
> 		<string>gantt</string>
> 	</array>
> 	<key>Edit or source in file</key>
> 	<string>YES</string>
> 	<key>Enable line wrapping if TRUE</key>
> 	<string>YES</string>
> 	<key>Enforce initial wd on startup</key>
> 	<string>NO</string>
> 	<key>External Editor Name</key>
> 	<string>TextEdit</string>
> 	<key>Highlight interval</key>
> 	<string>0.30</string>
> 	<key>History file path used for R type history files</key>
> 	<string>.Rhistory</string>
> 	<key>Import history file on startup if TRUE</key>
> 	<string>YES</string>
> 	<key>Input Color</key>
> 	<data>
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> 	<key>Is it a .app or a command</key>
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> 	<string>6.0</string>
> 	<key>Line number gutter width</key>
> 	<string>16.0</string>
> 	<key>Max number of history entries</key>
> 	<string>250</string>
> 	<key>NSNavBrowserPreferedColumnContentWidth</key>
> 	<real>186</real>
> 	<key>NSNavLastCurrentDirectory</key>
> 	<string>~/Documents/_MyData/bio/OurGroup/Luxian/
> comparisonComputerHuman</string>
> 	<key>NSNavLastRootDirectory</key>
> 	<string>~/Documents/_MyData</string>
> 	<key>NSNavPanelExpandedSizeForOpenMode</key>
> 	<string>{520, 401}</string>
> 	<key>NSNavPanelExpandedSizeForSaveMode</key>
> 	<string>{519, 401}</string>
> 	<key>NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode</key>
> 	<true/>
> 	<key>NSRecentDocumentRecords</key>
> 	<array>
> 		<dict>
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> 			<dict>
> 				<key>_NSAlias</key>
> 				<data>
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> 				YzA2ZGFjOAAAEwABLwD//wAA
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> 		<dict>
> 			<key>_NSLocator</key>
> 			<dict>
> 				<key>_NSAlias</key>
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> 				aEZRLzQxYTcAABMAAS8A//8AAA==
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> 		<dict>
> 			<key>_NSLocator</key>
> 			<dict>
> 				<key>_NSAlias</key>
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> 				AAAAAAF4AAIAAAZUb3R0aWUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
> 				NDkyABMAAS8A//8AAA==
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> 		<dict>
> 			<key>_NSLocator</key>
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> 				<key>_NSAlias</key>
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> 		<dict>
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> 			<dict>
> 				<key>_NSAlias</key>
> 				<data>
> 				AAAAAAF4AAIAAAZUb3R0aWUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
> 				NzgyABMAAS8A//8AAA==
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> 		<dict>
> 			<key>_NSLocator</key>
> 			<dict>
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> 				MGI3YWNkOQAAEwABLwD//wAA
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> 		<dict>
> 			<key>_NSLocator</key>
> 			<dict>
> 				<key>_NSAlias</key>
> 				<data>
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> 				NDMxYjc4MgAAEwABLwD//wAA
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> 		<dict>
> 			<key>_NSLocator</key>
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> 			<dict>
> 				<key>_NSAlias</key>
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> 
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