[R-SIG-Mac] .Rhistory problems

[Rob Goedman]

Vishy,

This is the problem that if the workspace is saved, R (R itself, not R.app) also saves a history file, typically with the name .Rhistory. This file is empty and overwrites an R.app history file with the same name. I suggest to change the R.app history filename (in Startup preferences) to something like .Rosxhistory or Rosxhistory or ~/Rosxhistory).

Regards,
Rob


On May 7, 2010, at 8:49 PM, Vishy Iyer wrote:

> Just upgraded to the latest R and I'm seeing a problem. When I quit R (using
> cmd-Q or the icon) and choose to *save* the Workspace image, it wipes out my
> .Rhistory file and makes a new, empty one. If I *don't save* the workspace
> image .Rhistory works as expected, meaning that my commands from the latest
> session are appended to the history file and available in the next session.
> 
> I'm pretty sure this is new behavior as I used to do this all the time
> earlier. I'm using:
> 
> R version 2.11.0 (2010-04-22)
> R.app GUI 1.33 (5582) i386-apple-darwin9.8.0
> on Snow Leopard 10.6.3
> 
> Has anyone else seen this, and is there a fix? Sorry if this has been
> answered - I've been away from this group for a while and it looks like it's
> impossible to search the group...
> 
> (In the past I've dealt with a .Rhistory file problem because I was using
> q() at the prompt. Using cmd-q or the switch icon on the GUI fixed that
> problem back then).
> Thanks,
> V.
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