Maria, Try changing the name of .Rhistory in the Startup preferences to something like .Rosxhistory. Press enter to make sure the change is accepted and try again. The problem is that R itself overwrites the file .Rhistory if it is told to save the workspace.
Rob On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:33 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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
