[R-SIG-Mac] Can't save history using savehistory()

[Rob Goedman]

Ken,

That is clearly not right.

Can you try saving the the history file from the history pane button and check what is written to the file?

Can you rename the history file and start over to see if that helps? If yes, would you mind sending me the renamed file?

Would you mind sending me your preference settings file? In: ~/Library/Preferences/org.R-project.R.plist .

Regards,
Rob


On Jan 27, 2011, at 7:38 AM, ken.williams at thomsonreuters.com wrote:

> Hi Rob,
> 
> I do see commands appended to the bottom of the history pane during my
> session, but when I quit & re-launch they're gone again.
> 
> Perhaps they're being saved to a different location than they're being
> read from?
> 
> --
> Ken Williams
> Senior Research Scientist
> Thomson Reuters
> Phone: 651-848-7712
> ken.williams at thomsonreuters.com
> http://labs.thomsonreuters.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/27/11 9:05 AM, "Rob Goedman" <robjgoedman at me.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ken,
>> 
>> History is saved at the end of your session.
>> 
>> During a session, the new commands should show up at the bottom of the
>> history pane.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Rob
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 1:41 PM, ken.williams at thomsonreuters.com wrote:
>> 
>>> savehistory() history doesn't seem to be doing anything on my platform.
>>> Here's an example:
>>> 
>>> =======================================
>>> [R.app GUI 1.35 (5665) i386-apple-darwin9.8.0]
>>> 
>>> [History restored from /Users/u0048513/.Rapp.history]
>>>> tail(readLines(file("~/.Rapp.history")))
>>> [1] "?Matrix"                             "15*275/1024"
>>>       "log10(2^32/4)"
>>> [4] "log2(10^6)"                          "library(ff)#"
>>>       "ffload(\"ff/a\", rootpath=\"/tmp\")"
>>> 
>>>> 5+5
>>> [1] 10
>>> 
>>>> savehistory('~/.Rapp.history')
>>> 
>>>> tail(readLines(file("~/.Rapp.history")))
>>> [1] "?Matrix"                             "15*275/1024"
>>>       "log10(2^32/4)"
>>> [4] "log2(10^6)"                          "library(ff)#"
>>>       "ffload(\"ff/a\", rootpath=\"/tmp\")"
>>> 
>>>> sessionInfo()
>>> R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
>>> Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)
>>> 
>>> locale:
>>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>> 
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>> 
>>>> file.info('~/.Rapp.history')
>>>                size isdir mode               mtime               ctime
>>>             atime uid gid    uname   grname
>>> ~/.Rapp.history 17357 FALSE  644 2011-01-12 15:36:20 2011-01-12
>>> 15:36:20 2011-01-12 15:36:25 502 502 u0048513 u0048513
>>> =======================================
>>> 
>>> As the last line shows, there shouldn't be a permissions problem.  One
>>> suspicious thing is that there are exactly 512 lines in the file  but
>>> in the R.app preference pane I have the max number of history items set
>>> to 1000, so perhaps that's a red herring.
>>> 
>>> Any thoughts?
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Ken Williams
>>> Senior Research Scientist
>>> 
>>> Thomson Reuters
>>> 
>>> Phone: 651-848-7712
>>> ken.williams at thomsonreuters.com
>>> http://thomsonreuters.com
>>> 
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