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Subject: Re: [ESS] RFC: and .Rhistory -- new default == *no* .Rhistory ??
From: Patrick Connolly <p_connolly () slingshot ! co ! nz>
Date: 2011-09-04 7:02:55
Message-ID: 20110904070255.GA3730 () slingshot ! co ! nz
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On Fri, 02-Sep-2011 at 11:35AM +0100, Marianne Promberger wrote:
|> Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> 01-Sep-11 16:24:
|> > With this e-mail, we are polling you, the active ESS users.
|> > Or in other words, we ask you to "vote" on one aspect of this
|> > issue, for which I need to give a bit more context :
|> >
|> > nil -- do not attempt to read/write a history file
|> > t -- use the default naming scheme for loading the history
|> > "fname" -- use this value as the filename.
|> >
|> > Note that from above, 't' corresponds to the current default
|> > in ESS (which is 'nil' there !).
|>
|> I would vote for a default of "t"
|>
|> We are talking about a default. I think it is worse if you expect R to
|> write a .Rhistory and it doesn't than if you get unnecessary clutter
|> (because you don't know about the new option to turn off the
|> Rhistory).
I agree with Marianne and I struggle to understand how a .Rhistory
file in each directory constitutes clutter. The very layout of the
directory structure removes the clutter. What *would* be clutter is a
single file with history of hundreds of projects mixed together and
thereby useless. Over time, I have accumulated very similar scripts
in dozens of directories. Admitedly, I don't use the .Rhistory that
often, but I have occasionally found it useful to find something I did
incidently but didn't record in the .R file -- mistakenly thinking I
was avoiding clutter in that august file. :-)
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