Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305152029010.1457-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2003-05-15T19:31:02Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: savehistory not working properly in R?
In-Reply-To: <3EC3CCA9.D2E44FF8@math.mun.ca>
On Thu, 15 May 2003, 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 don't know: it predates my involvement with R. The Windows ports used
always to save it, but we changed to conform to the Unix version, since
being different confused too many people.
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