Haven't followed this closely, but ?Startup and links therein might be useful (esp .First).
Bert On May 5, 2017 11:47 AM, "David Winsemius" <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > On May 5, 2017, at 7:48 AM, Michael Dewey <li...@dewey.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > Dear Ralf > > You can manually save it with > savehistory(insertyour preferred filenamehere.r) > > or does that not do what you hoped? Or you can exit to your system browser and copy of the desired sections of the .Rhistory file that you desire archiving to a text editor (after you find the ofttimes hidden file.) It's just a text file. The details vary across OSes. I don't think you told us yours. Might help to read the Posting Guide. -- David > > On 05/05/2017 14:44, Ralf Goertz 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. >> >> --- >> This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. >> http://www.avg.com >> >> > > -- > Michael > http://www.dewey.myzen.co.uk/home.html > > ______________________________________________ > 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. David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
