On 05/06/2009 7:53 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:> When I quit R, it says:
>
> > q()
> Save workspace image? [y/n/c]:
>
> and since I've probably got 3 R sessions running in however many
> different directories and I might have jumped around with setwd() , I
> forget exactly where R wants to save its workspace image. So could q()
> be changed to say what file it is going to save to before it does?
>
> Currently I have to hit 'c', then do getcwd(), then quit again.
> Would something like
>
> > q()
> Save workspace image (/home/me/workspace/.RData)? [y/n/c]:
>
> be useful to anyone else? Just thought I'd ask before I dive into
> internals or wrap the q function for myself.
That sounds like a great suggestion. I might word it as
Save workspace to "/home/me/workspace/.RData"? [y/n/c]
If people are working deep in a directory tree, the path might end up
too long; you might want to think about limiting it (e.g. by leaving off
the root).
Duncan Murdoch