[R-SIG-Mac] Advice on setting my options for the old q() for quitting the R GUI

[Simon Urbanek]

Ian,

On May 10, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Ian Dworkin wrote:

> Hi All
> 
>  As I just upgraded to a new macbook pro, I finally updated to R 2.11.0.   I was hoping for a quick suggestion on how to set it so that I can utilize q() or quit() as I use to back in the good old days of 2.9.x !!
> 

As the message says, if you really want to do that and kill all your documents, you can either use base::q() or base::quit() directly or (as NEWS say) set "RGUI.base.quit" option to TRUE if you want the old (dangerous) behavior.

Just as a reminder the only safe way to close the R GUI is <Cmd><Q> (followed by <Cmd><D> or <Enter> depending on whether you want to save the workspace or not) otherwise the GUI is killed instead of closed resulting in potential data loss.

Cheers,
Simon