R normally prompts you to save .RData, but it just automatically saves .Rhistory... the two are unrelated. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On May 5, 2017 6:44:50 AM PDT, Ralf Goertz <r_goe...@web.de> wrote: >Am Fri, 05 May 2017 06:30:01 -0700 >schrieb Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>: > >> The answer most people seem to use is to avoid depending on functions >> in RData files, and in particular avoiding ever saving the >> "automatic" ".RData" files at all. (Some people avoid using any RData >> files, but the automatic loading of functions by ".RData" files is a >> particularly pernicious source of evil as you have already >> discovered.) >> >> That is, always work toward building scripts that you run to restore >> your workspace rather than depending on save files. Don't depend on >> save files to keep track of what you do interactively. This also >> usually means that there should be little if anything in >> your .Rprofile because that tends to build non-reproducibility into >> your scripts. > >Hi Jeff, > >thanks for your answer. Actually, I don't use the workspace saving >feature primarily for the data but for the command line history. Is >there a way to just save .Rhistory? > >Ralf ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
