Hi Rob, I do see commands appended to the bottom of the history pane during my session, but when I quit & re-launch they're gone again.
Perhaps they're being saved to a different location than they're being read from? -- Ken Williams Senior Research Scientist Thomson Reuters Phone: 651-848-7712 ken.willi...@thomsonreuters.com http://labs.thomsonreuters.com On 1/27/11 9:05 AM, "Rob Goedman" <robjgoed...@me.com> wrote: >Ken, > >History is saved at the end of your session. > >During a session, the new commands should show up at the bottom of the >history pane. > >Regards, >Rob > > >On Jan 12, 2011, at 1:41 PM, ken.willi...@thomsonreuters.com wrote: > >> savehistory() history doesn't seem to be doing anything on my platform. >> Here's an example: >> >> ======================================= >> [R.app GUI 1.35 (5665) i386-apple-darwin9.8.0] >> >> [History restored from /Users/u0048513/.Rapp.history] >>> tail(readLines(file("~/.Rapp.history"))) >> [1] "?Matrix" "15*275/1024" >> "log10(2^32/4)" >> [4] "log2(10^6)" "library(ff)#" >> "ffload(\"ff/a\", rootpath=\"/tmp\")" >> >>> 5+5 >> [1] 10 >> >>> savehistory('~/.Rapp.history') >> >>> tail(readLines(file("~/.Rapp.history"))) >> [1] "?Matrix" "15*275/1024" >> "log10(2^32/4)" >> [4] "log2(10^6)" "library(ff)#" >> "ffload(\"ff/a\", rootpath=\"/tmp\")" >> >>> sessionInfo() >> R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16) >> Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit) >> >> locale: >> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >> >>> file.info('~/.Rapp.history') >> size isdir mode mtime ctime >> atime uid gid uname grname >> ~/.Rapp.history 17357 FALSE 644 2011-01-12 15:36:20 2011-01-12 >>15:36:20 2011-01-12 15:36:25 502 502 u0048513 u0048513 >> ======================================= >> >> As the last line shows, there shouldn't be a permissions problem. One >>suspicious thing is that there are exactly 512 lines in the file but >>in the R.app preference pane I have the max number of history items set >>to 1000, so perhaps that's a red herring. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> -- >> Ken Williams >> Senior Research Scientist >> >> Thomson Reuters >> >> Phone: 651-848-7712 >> ken.willi...@thomsonreuters.com >> http://thomsonreuters.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
