If you are using Emacs/ESS/org-mode etc., you may be better of posting to the ESS-Help list, where there are folks that I know of who are engaged in using org-mode for R coding and documentation. They may be able to offer some insights into their practices.
More info at: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help HTH, Marc Schwartz On Dec 16, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Holger Hoefling wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing code in Emacs using org-mode and babel. I have a number of code > blocks that are tangled into several files with some files spanning several > code blocks. Each of these files is supposed to run independently of each > other on a clean version of R, however I also want to be able to execute > each code block during the org-mode development. This means > > a) I cannot use a new R session in every code block > b) I cannot reuse the same R session for all code-blocks without cleaning it > up > c) Quitting and restarting R is not an option > > Thank you very much for your suggestions for cleaning the workspace. It is a > partial solution, but doesn't guarantee a vanilla state (i.e. inadvertently > changed options and the like). I was hoping for a base-package function that > guarantees this functionality, but will probably use the ad-hoc version of > cleaning the workspace and the packages only if no-one knows anything > else.... > > Thank you very much for your suggestions again. > > Best > > Holger > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Georg Ruß <resea...@georgruss.de> wrote: > >> On 16/12/10 15:12:47, Holger Hoefling wrote: >>> Specifically I want all objects in the workspace removed >> >> rm(list=ls()) should do this trick. >> >>> and all non-base packages detached and unloaded >> >> You may obtain the list of loaded packages via >> >> (.packages()) >> >> Store this at the beginning of your session, get the diff to the loaded >> packages at the end of the session and >> >> detach(package:packagename) those packages. >> >>> and preferably a .Rprofile executed as well >> >> source(".Rprofile") ? >> >> What's the circumstance that requires you to do this? I.e. why don't you >> just restart R? >> >> Regards, >> Georg. ______________________________________________ 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.
