Yes, renaming the history file fixes the problem! Now I recall that I'd encountered this issue a long time and this may have been the solution that was suggested, but I think I had lost and recreated my R preferences file between OS upgrades and R upgrades. Thanks for the help! V.
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Rob Goedman <robjgoed...@me.com> wrote: > > Vishy, > > Try to rename the history file to .Rosxhistory in the Startup preference > panel. > > Let me know if this fixes the issue. > > 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
