[R] How do I reload sessions from a non-default directory in OS X?

[David Winsemius]

On Dec 23, 2008, at 10:02 PM, David Winsemius wrote:

> On Dec 23, 2008, at 5:18 PM, Bill McNeill (UW) wrote:
>
>> i use the GUI version of R on OS X.  I launch it by double-clicking  
>> on the R
>> icon.  The process always starts in my home directory which means  
>> that the
>> only .RData file that is ever read in is the one in my home  
>> directory.  I
>> would instead like to have different R sessions saved in different
>> directories, but I can't figure out how to do this.
>>
>> A workaround is to use the shell version of R and always change to  
>> the
>> directory containing my saved session before launching, but I  
>> prefer to use
>> the GUI version.
>>
>> Is there a command to tell R to load a session from a particular  
>> location?
>> How do other people with Macs do this?
>
> ?load
>
> (It's not Mac-specific.)

>
>
> If you want to clean out the workspace you could use:
>
> rm( ls() )

That won't do anything. Instead, try:

rm(list = ls())

>
>
> You can also associate file types with your R.app.
>
> -- 
> David Winsemius
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Bill McNeill
>> http://staff.washington.edu/billmcn/index.shtml
>>
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