Did you (or a startup script) set the environment variable R_HISTORY to be
'~/somefile'? R does not expand the tilde in this case so you need to let
the shell do it. Perhaps ~ doesn't expand for the root user. (IMO, it is
crazy to run R, or almost any other program, as root.)
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 7:11 AM lejeczek via R-help <r-help@r-project.org>
wrote:
> hi guys,
>
> I'm on Centos 7.6 with R 3.6 and I see this:
>
> >
> Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: y
> Warning message:
> problem in saving the history file '~/.Rhistory'
>
> from strace:
>
> rt_sigaction(SIGWINCH, {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fb9dd34b5d0},
> {0x7fb9dc383820, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7fb9dd34b5d0}, 8) = 0
> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT], [], 8) = 0
> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
> ioctl(1, TCXONC, TCOON) = 0
> open("~/.Rhistory", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0600) = -1 ENOENT (No such
> file or directory)
> brk(NULL) = 0x43da000
> brk(0x43fe000) = 0x43fe000
> rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_IGN, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fb9dcfa2280},
> {0x7fb9dfd99ffb, [INT], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7fb9dd34b5d0}, 8) = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_IGN, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fb9dcfa2280},
> {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fb9dd34b5d0}, 8) = 0
> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
> clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_PARENT_SETTID|SIGCHLD,
> parent_tidptr=0x7ffd7d87e100) = 1367359
> wait4(1367359, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 1367359
> rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x7fb9dfd99ffb, [INT], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART,
> 0x7fb9dcfa2280}, NULL, 8) = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fb9dcfa2280}, NULL,
> 8) = 0
> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
> --- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=1367359,
> si_uid=0, si_status=0, si_utime=0, si_stime=1} ---
> write(2, "Warning message:\n", 17) = 17
> write(2, "problem in saving the history fi"..., 50) = 50
> exit_group(0) = ?
> +++ exited with 0 +++
>
>
> This only with user "root", and the some root can touch the ~/.Rhistory
> just fine.
>
> Even this works:
>
> > system(command="touch ~/.Rhistory")
>
> Would have any suggestions, ideas on how to fix it?
>
> many thanks, L.
>
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