[R] .Rhistory in R.app

[Rolf Turner]

I just experimented and I find that, exactly as Maria described,
on my system no commands get added to .Rhistory when I start R using  
the GUI.

The ``timestamp'' that is implemented in my .Rprofile gets added, but  
no commands
that I typed in the GUI window appeared.

I had never noticed this before since I never actually use the GUI.   
(Like ***all
civilized*** people, I use the command line exclusciously. :-) )

I am running R 2.10.0, so updating is not the issue.

Maria:  Why don't you just start R from the command line, like a  
civilized
person ( :-) ) and forget about the <expletive deleted> GUI, which only
gets in the way of serious work?

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner

P. S.:

  > sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
i386-apple-darwin8.11.1

locale:
[1] en_NZ.UTF-8/en_NZ.UTF-8/C/C/en_NZ.UTF-8/en_NZ.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] datasets  utils     stats     graphics  grDevices methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] misc_0.0-11    fortunes_1.3-6 MASS_7.3-3

On 10/12/2009, at 7:33 AM, Maria Gouskova wrote:

> Dear R users,
>
> I am having a minor but annoying issue with R.app. It doesn't retain
> the history information from the previous sessions. By "history," I
> mean a record of commands/functions entered into R rather than the
> list of objects--that is properly recorded in the .Rdata file as well
> as in a workspace file I save separately.
>
> System details:
>
> R version 2.9.0
> R.app GUI 1.28
> Mac OS 10.6.2 (MacBook, Intel 2.4 GHz, 4 Gb RAM)
>
> Things I've done:
>
> R>Preferences>Startup>History: Read history file on startup is
> checked; R history file directory is specified with a path to my
> preferred directory (~/Documents/...). I've tried it with the default
> setting, too--it makes no difference.
>
> I've checked the permissions on the .Rhistory file. The default
> .Rhistory file created by R has the permissions set at -rw-r--r--.
>
> I've moved the .Rhistory file to a different location (Desktop), so
> that R would create a new one. Makes no difference--command history is
> still empty at startup.
>
> R has kept track of history on my system in the past--the file I moved
> to the desktop has a record of my work from about a year ago. (By the
> way, that file's permissions are -rwx-----.) Judging by what is in the
> old .Rhistory file, the problem started around the time of my upgrade
> from 2.7.x to 2.8. I am reluctant to upgrade to R 2.10 in the middle
> of a project, because every R upgrade I've done in the past has broken
> something, and I've had nothing but grief with my open source apps
> after upgrading to Snow Leopard. So if there is some kind of a fix
> that doesn't involve upgrading R, I'd love to hear about it.
>
> Maria Gouskova

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