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.