Dear all again: I have been trying to clear weeks of codes in my R console, even after quitting and coming back another day!. One of you out there graciously suggested this rm(list=ls(all=TRUE)). I tried this but no dice. Codes tried. Ctrl +L , clears for the time... and the the latest i used ... rm(list=ls(all=TRUE)) Does anybody has another option of clearing the console of old codes?. Thanks, YA -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Clearing-Console-rm-list-ls-all-TRUE-not-working-for-me-tp3448681p3448681.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Clearing Console- rm(list=ls(all=TRUE)) not working for me
2 messages · YAddo, Rolf Turner
On 14/04/11 15:21, YAddo wrote:
Dear all again: I have been trying to clear weeks of codes in my R console, even after quitting and coming back another day!. One of you out there graciously suggested this rm(list=ls(all=TRUE)). I tried this but no dice. Codes tried. Ctrl +L , clears for the time
Clearing the console is completely different from truncating
your history.
... and the the latest i used ... rm(list=ls(all=TRUE))
Talk about the blind leading the blind! The person who gave you that advice
really doesn't understand much if anything about R. He/she seems to have no
idea about the distinction between completely distinct concepts.
The
rm(list=ls(all=TRUE))
command removes *objects* from your workspace. It has nothing whatever to do
with your history of *commands* (``codes'' as you so quaintly put it).
To get rid of past history you can simply edit your .Rhistory file and
delete
all but, say the last 50 lines.
If you want to limit your history so that it never contains more than 50
lines you can do
Sys.setenv(R_HISTSIZE=50)
This has to be done every time a new R session is started. I have a similar
command in my .Rprofile so that it gets done automatically. I use
R_HISTSIZE=5000
however. I don't really understand why you object to having a fairly
long history
available to you.
cheers,
Rolf Turner