[R-SIG-Mac] Option '--no-save' seems to be ignored although in .bash_profile and other files

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 07/10/2015 11:04 AM, Marius Hofert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to start R by default with '--no-restore-history
> --no-save' to avoid that .RData files are written. I put "alias R=R
> --no-restore-history --no-save" in virtually all relevant system/dot
> files, like ~/.bash_profile and ~/.profile (even ~/.bashrc), but
> still, .RData files are written (yes, I did fresh logins...)... When I
> define the alias in the shell before executing R, it works, so the
> question seems to be *where* (i.e., in which file) to define the
> alias? This seems to be a 'Mac/terminal question' not related to R,
> but I have working aliases in ~/.bashrc, so why I isn't R called with
> the two optional arguments? Has anyone experienced something similar?
> I even found posts were this procedure is recommended (with the alias
> defined in ~/.bash_profile). Hmmm...

You don't describe how you are starting R.  Assuming you are doing it by 
running the command "R" from within bash, what does "alias R" show you?

Duncan Murdoch