Use .Renviron
Hadley
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Luca Cerone <luca.cer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks,
> effectively I was using RStudio (on an Ubuntu 12.04 machine).
>
> Is there any other way to make the variable available to Rstudio?
> Now I have simply written the path manually, but I like the idea of
> having a system-wide variable :)
>
> Thanks for your help, Rainer!
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote:
>> Luca Cerone <luca.cer...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>> in my .bashrc file I have set the environment variable R_HISTFILE like this:
>>>
>>> export R_HISTFILE="$HOME/.Rhistory"
>>>
>>> I then use it in my .Rprofile to have R writing all the history in a
>>> single file, rather than on a per directory basis.
>>> However this doesn't work becaus R_HISTFILE is not recognized by R.
>>
>> Which OS? How do you start R?
>>
>> There is a difference between login shell (executed when you log in) and
>> non-log in (I thik interactive shell? don't know the actual
>> name). .baschrc is only executed after you are logged in and start the
>> shell. So when you start R from the shell, it should work - you can
>> check by
>>
>> echo $R_HISTFILE
>>
>> which should show you the value of the variable.
>>
>> If you are starting R the R gui (on Mac or RStudio) .bashrc is not
>> sourced. Checo online for the file which will be sourced by the login
>> shell - different between OS and distros.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>
>>>
>>> If I type: Sys.getenv("R_HISTFILE")
>>> the output is: ""
>>>
>>> How can I get R recognizing environment variables?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Luca
>>
>> --
>> Rainer M. Krug
>> email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de
>> PGP: 0x0F52F982
>
>
>
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>
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