A look at ?history shows an environment variable that might help you restrict it to just one central .Rhistory file.
-Don -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 8/14/13 7:15 AM, "Jannis" <bt_jan...@yahoo.de> wrote: >OK, this seems to be only a problem when I use emacs/ess. I will try to >find a solution to this but this does not seem to be related to emacs. >In case anyone of you has an Idea: I use: > >(setq inferior-R-args "--no-save --no-restore --silent") > >to start R, but still a .RHistory file is saved. > >Cheers >Jannis > >On 14.08.2013 16:01, Jannis wrote: >> Well, I have made some tests with the 'no save' option. This only >> seems to control the saving of .RData files (at least none appeared in >> the working directory in my tests). A file called .RHistory is still >> created. I can now put some code to delete this file in .Last function >> but somehow I think that R should provide an option not to clutter the >> working directories in such ways. Or to use one central .RHistory file. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Jannis >> >> On 14.08.2013 14:33, Jannis wrote: >>> Thanks, I will look into ways to tell ess/emacs to use such options. >>> I am, however, quite sure that I have never answered "yes" to the >>> question when quitting R. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Jannis >>> >>> >>> On 13.08.2013 20:21, MacQueen, Don wrote: >>>> R --no-save >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > ______________________________________________ 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.
