Renaming the .Rhistory file to .Rosxhistory didn't solve the problem for me--the file is still empty. And I have confirmed that it is a problem specific to R.app--running R from Terminal works fine, adding records to the existing .Rhistory file.
Too bad there is no apparent workaround. Thanks, everyone. Maria On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Rob Goedman <robjgoed...@me.com> wrote: > 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.
