[R] getting rid of .Rhistory and .RData

[MacQueen, Don]

A look at ?history shows an environment variable that might help you
restrict it to just one central .Rhistory file.

-Don

-- 
Don MacQueen

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On 8/14/13 7:15 AM, "Jannis" <bt_jannis at yahoo.de> wrote:

>OK, this seems to be only a problem when I use emacs/ess. I will try to
>find a solution to this but this does not seem to be related to emacs.
>In case anyone of you has an Idea: I use:
>
>(setq inferior-R-args "--no-save --no-restore --silent")
>
>to start R, but still a .RHistory file is saved.
>
>Cheers
>Jannis
>
>On 14.08.2013 16:01, Jannis wrote:
>> Well, I have made some tests with the 'no save' option. This only
>> seems to control the saving of .RData files (at least none appeared in
>> the working directory in my tests). A file called .RHistory is still
>> created. I can now put some code to delete this file in .Last function
>> but somehow I think that R should provide an option not to clutter the
>> working directories in such ways. Or to use one central .RHistory file.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Jannis
>>
>> On 14.08.2013 14:33, Jannis wrote:
>>> Thanks, I will look into ways to tell ess/emacs to use such options.
>>> I am, however, quite sure that I have never answered "yes" to the
>>> question when quitting R.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Jannis
>>>
>>>
>>> On 13.08.2013 20:21, MacQueen, Don wrote:
>>>>   R --no-save
>>>
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