It's nothing to do with R: there is no code looking at file attributes in R.
Perhaps you have set your OS to mark .* files as hidden somehow? It does not happen for me or any of our users on XP. On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Duncan Mackay wrote: > I've ecountered a problem in the last few days with my .Rhistory file > not being able to be updated when I quit an R session because its file > attributes under Windows have been set as "Hidden". Recently, I put the > following line in my global Rprofile file:- > > history(max.show=Inf) > > so that I automatically open the entire history file for a project when > I begin a session, but I don't see why that would cause a problem. > > This problem has arisen several times in the last few days while working > on different Rdata files in different folders. When I manually uncheck > the "hidden" attribute of my Rhistory file, the problem goes away. But > why did the files get that attribute in the first place? Is this > something that R itself may have done? I'm running R Version 1.8.0 > (2003-10-08) under WinXP. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
