R.app ?bug or me

I understand, and can work with this

But then R in the Mac dock is not of much value as it always goes  
"home"; no matter what you were working on last

From: Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 23:08:34 -0500
To: Loren Engrav <engrav at u.washington.edu>
Cc: "r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch" <r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app ?bug or me


On Dec 8, 2007, at 7:48 PM, Loren Engrav wrote:

Thank you for the help

Ah so, default is in Preferences and the new is under Misc in the
menu bar
I can do that and will

But might it not be more convenient if on R.app start you went to
where you
were last time, since most often you wish to go to the place you
just left

Although it would be possible to make that a configurable option,  
it'd
definitely not want that. It would make R's behavior sort of random,
because you would never know where it will start from ... a really  
bad
thing (IMHO).
 If you want to work on a specific project, it's much more convenient
to just drag the directory on R to start it and you can then work on
multiple projects conveniently and independently.

As for

PS: Please use R-SIG-Mac for Mac-specific questions.

This is appearing in R-SIG-Mac.  What am I missing here?

Oops, sorry, my bad, the "To" was showing R-devel for some mysterious
reason...

Cheers,
Simon

From: Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 18:57:14 -0500
To: Loren Engrav <engrav at u.washington.edu>
Cc: "r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch" <r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app ?bug or me


On Dec 8, 2007, at 6:37 PM, Loren Engrav wrote:

Using Mac 10.4.11
And sessionInfo() say

sessionInfo()

R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)
powerpc-apple-darwin8.10.1

locale:
en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods    
base


Directory is ABC and history is XYZ
So I change directory to FGH and history to QRS
Then I quit R and say save workspace

Then I start R
And am back to workspace ABC and history XYZ

Well, if ABC and XYZ is in home and you didn't change the default
settings and started R.app directly then that is exactly as  
expected.

Would seem I should be at FGH and QRS

Why? That would be quite bad as FGH and QRS have nothing to do with
your home. The whole point of changing a directory is usually  
exactly
the fact that you don't want to overwrite the workspace in your  
home.

What am I missing? Is it staring me in the face and I cannot see  
it?

I'd say reading 4.3.3 in the R for Mac FAQ may possibly explain
this a
bit ...

Cheers,
Simon

PS: Please use R-SIG-Mac for Mac-specific questions.