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. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
