Yihui Xie wrote:
Hi Everyone,

I want to get the commands history as a character vector instead of
just displaying them, but the function history() just returns NULL. I
checked the source code of 'history' and could not find a solution.
Anybody has an idea? Thanks!
history eventually calls file.show, which will use the pager option to determine how to show the file, so you can do something like that:

history <- function( ... ){
old.op <- options( pager = function( files, header, title, delete.file ) readLines( files ) ); on.exit( options( old.op ) )
utils::history(...)
}
history( pattern = "png" )

I don't see a way to get device information other than the name of the device (with dev.cur)

Romain

P. S. My original problem is, when a user opens a graphics device like
png() or pdf(), I want to know the file name used by this device. I
thought history() would help, but it could not.

sessionInfo()
R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
i386-pc-mingw32

locale:
LC_COLLATE=Chinese_People's Republic of
China.936;LC_CTYPE=Chinese_People's Republic of
China.936;LC_MONETARY=Chinese_People's Republic of
China.936;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Chinese_People's Republic of China.936

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

Regards,
Yihui
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