[R] How to save and restore a workspace

[Bert Gunter]

Suggestion:

Read the "Intro to R tutorial" that ships with R. Alternatively, there are
also many good online tutorials, some free, some not. You'll need to spend
some time and effort to learn R's basic data structures and paradigms even
if you don't get involved in any serious programming.

If this is not something you are willing or able to do, you might check
here for a point and click GUI interface that give you access to some of
R's basic functionality: http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/  . You
will have to determine whether this serves your needs and priorities of
course.


Cheers,
Bert

Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jon,
> Saving your workspace doesn't mean that everything will be rerun when
> you start a new R session. I just means that persistent objects like
> data frames will be there. If you type:
>
> objects()
>
> you will see all of those things that were there when you ended in the
> last session. Things like commands will be in the "history", so you
> can retrieve them just as you did at the end of the last session (up
> arrow). It may be a better solution if you save sequences of commands
> as R script files (e.g. "something.R") as you can run them:
>
> source("something.R")
>
> and edit and save them again.
>
> Jim
>
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 9:12 AM,  <jonnvan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I recently downloaded R in hopes of learning to use it for statistics.
> > I have promptly run into a problem, as I am unable to save, and later
> recover, a workspace so I can resume work where I left off.
> > I am using Windows.
> > I indicate "yes" to the pop up after q().  Then when I later reopen R
> Console and click on File, I cannot get my prior workspace to appear in the
> R Console frame so I can resume work.
> > In the File drop down menu I have tried Load Workspace, Load History,
> Display file(s)..., opened R Type: R Workspace with no luck.
> > I have read about this in two different books, the R Manual, and R FAQs,
> used the RGui help function, and still cannot do it.
> > I have used Windows for years, but I am ignorant about programming.
> > Would appreciate any help you might offer.
> > I live in the Denver area, so if there are any local resources you could
> direct me to, I would be grateful for that as well.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Jon VanDeventer
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
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