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Annoying newline character saved in command history

2 messages · soeren.vogel at eawag.ch, Simon Urbanek

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soeren.vogel at eawag.ch
# 
Dear R.app developers

Love your nice application, thank you!

When using R.app, the command history also saves newline characters  
executing commands. That is, every time when repeating commands via  
the arrow-up keystroke, another newline character is added to the  
command.

Example output from an operation:

<pre>
 > x <- seq(1:2); x
[1] 1 2
 > x <- seq(1:2); x
[1] 1 2
 >
 > x <- seq(1:2); x
[1] 1 2
 >
 >
 >
</pre>

This might be a bug since the final newline character marks the  
command execution but not a real new line. This behaviour does not  
occur when executing R via the Terminal.app.

S?ren

Notes:

R 2.8.1 GUI 1.27 Tiger build 32-bit (5301) running on a MacBook Pro  
with Tiger 10.5.6

 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
i386-apple-darwin8.11.1

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

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

other attached packages:
[1] lattice_0.17-20 foreign_0.8-31

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.8.1  tools_2.8.1
1 day later
Simon Urbanek
# 
S?ren,

I think you may want to enable "Cleanup history entries" in the R.app  
preferences. In fact that's the default, so I suspect you may have  
disabled it at some point.

Cheers,
Simon
On Feb 14, 2009, at 12:09 , soeren.vogel at eawag.ch wrote: