savehistory directories and quitting R (PR#2038)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

This is not a bug. If you override a system function, you can't expect it
to be used by R internals.  Indeed, as from 1.6.0 you can't even expect it
to be used by R's base functions, due to namespaces.

There are very good reasons for the internal quit code not to call user's
R code, the main one being that R errors will not be handled then.
.Last is made available as a hook to enable you to do what you want:
as the help page says.

Doesn't setting R_HISTFILE do this for you automatically? Just set
R_HISTFILE="D:/R50/.Rhistory" and the history should be loaded and saved
to the specified place.  Works under Unix, at least.



On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 Mark.Bravington@csiro.au wrote:

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> Because I work in different directories, but always want to save my
> .Rhistory in the same place, I have changed the system function savehistory
> to this:
>
> function (file = "D:/R50/.Rhistory")
> invisible(.Internal(savehistory(file)))
>
> When I use q() to quit R, and it asks me whether I want to "save current
> workspace", a response of YES means that the .Rhistory is saved in the
> current working directory, rather than D:/R50/.Rhistory. I take this to mean
> that the quit-on-prompt sequence makes a direct call to .Internal(
> savehistory...) rather than going via the actual savehistory() function. It
> would be nicer if prompt-on-quit would honour the user's definition of
> savehistory.

Actually it talks directly to the GUI-specific history mechanism.

> (Responding NO to the "save current..." prompt means that .Rhistory isn't
> saved at all, which is reasonable.)
>
> I admit that this is a very minor bug, because I can set .Last to call
> savehistory directly. But I just thought you should know...
>
> cheers
> Mark
>
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