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Message-ID: <20030515204736.GL13579@hortresearch.co.nz>
Date: 2003-05-15T20:47:37Z
From: Patrick Connolly
Subject: savehistory not working properly in R?
In-Reply-To: <3EC3CCA9.D2E44FF8@math.mun.ca>

On Thu, 15-May-2003 at 02:51PM -0230, Paul Y. Peng wrote:


|> Why does R save its command history only when one saves the data
|> image of the session? Is this a feature? Even though .Last can do
|> this, would it be more convenient if R can do this automatically?
|> Logically, I feel the command history should be treated separately.

I like it how it is.  I always have at least two R sessions active.
One I'm working on and the other I use for tinkering with ideas that
come up from reading this list.  I don't usually want to keep a
history of those tinkerings, so I quit the tinkering R session without
saving a data image.

best

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