[R] savehistory not working properly in R?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

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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