Re: [R] .Rhistory

From: Prof Brian Ripley (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Sun 09 Sep 2001 - 05:12:03 EST

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On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Rolf Turner wrote:

>
> It seems that when I choose not to save the workspace, R then chooses
> not to update the command history saved in the file .Rhistory.
>
> I can see a rationale for this, but I find it annoying; I might well
> want to be able to get at previous commands, even if I don't want to
> keep the objects created by these commands.
>
> Is there anyway of changing this behaviour --- i.e. to get R to save
> the commands but not the workspace?

?savehistory

since I used to find it annoying too...

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