Any change here is not so simple to implement as to propose: this is
not something in the R engine, but part of the clean-up action in the
front end. That means that there are at least 3 versions to handle in
the standard front ends (and that for R.app is not in the main source
tarball). And at least two of them is offered for translation so
there are many copies. Then there are other front-ends such as JGR
and RKward ....
I hope people proposing this will offer complete patches.
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 6/5/2009 9:46 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Mathieu Ribatet<mathieu.riba...@epfl.ch>
wrote:
I guess that having something like this
q()
Save workspace image (/home/me/workspace/.RData)? [y/n/c/e]:
where "e" means Editing the path should be clear enought, isn't it?
'e' might be thought to mean 'exit' in English, which makes me think
we also need to make sure this can all be translated. Maybe 'p' for
path? Or 'e' for 'elsewhere'? This is getting tricky :)
I think I'd rather leave off the 'e' option for simplicity - if the
user wants to save elsewhere they can hit 'c' and do save() or
setcwd() themselves, I'm not sure we need to put extra functionality
into the q function.
An alternative to think about is to report where the file was saved, rather
than tease the user by suggesting s/he has a choice. This is a bit harder in
the GUIs, but would be very easy in a console, just print the path after
quitting:
Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: y
Image saved to /home/me/workspace/.RData
In the Windows GUI you could pop up a dialog box to say this, with a checkbox
saying "don't show me this next time".
Duncan Murdoch
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