R help - Mar 2005 - removing message: [Previously saved workspace restored]

Dear All, 

I saved by mistake the environment I was working in after typing q(),
and now I get the annoying message:

[Previously saved workspace restored]

I have already deleted all the objects in the environment, saving it as
an empty environment, so it's just a matter of nitpicking I suppose. The
message does not appear if I start R from any other place in the
directory tree.

I am reading ?Startup and related docs, but I am utterly failing to
understand how to remove [Previously saved workspace restored] when I
call R from the offending dir...

I am using R on Debian Sarge x86

Cheers,

Federico Calboli
-- 
Federico C. F. Calboli
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Imperial College, St Mary's Campus
Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG

Tel  +44 (0)20 7594 1602     Fax (+44) 020 7594 3193

f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk
f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com

R saves the workspace in a file called '.RData'.  Simply remove this 
file from your working directory.  Or if you startup R and get the 
message, try

unlink(".RData")

-roger

Federico Calboli wrote:
> Dear All, 
> 
> I saved by mistake the environment I was working in after typing q(),
> and now I get the annoying message:
> 
> [Previously saved workspace restored]
> 
> I have already deleted all the objects in the environment, saving it as
> an empty environment, so it's just a matter of nitpicking I suppose.
The
> message does not appear if I start R from any other place in the
> directory tree.
> 
> I am reading ?Startup and related docs, but I am utterly failing to
> understand how to remove [Previously saved workspace restored] when I
> call R from the offending dir...
> 
> I am using R on Debian Sarge x86
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Federico Calboli
-- 
Roger D. Peng
http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 15:57 -0500, Wiener, Matthew
wrote:
> Remove the (now empty, because you deleted all objects) file
".RData" from
> the directory.
> 
> Hope this helps,

Thanks, it did fix the problem.

Cheers,

Federico Calboli
-- 
Federico C. F. Calboli
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Imperial College, St Mary's Campus
Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG

Tel  +44 (0)20 7594 1602     Fax (+44) 020 7594 3193

f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk
f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com

Either remove .RData in the directory, or start R with --no-restore option.

Andy
> From: Federico Calboli
> 
> Dear All, 
> 
> I saved by mistake the environment I was working in after typing q(),
> and now I get the annoying message:
> 
> [Previously saved workspace restored]
> 
> I have already deleted all the objects in the environment, 
> saving it as
> an empty environment, so it's just a matter of nitpicking I 
> suppose. The
> message does not appear if I start R from any other place in the
> directory tree.
> 
> I am reading ?Startup and related docs, but I am utterly failing to
> understand how to remove [Previously saved workspace restored] when I
> call R from the offending dir...
> 
> I am using R on Debian Sarge x86
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Federico Calboli
> -- 
> Federico C. F. Calboli
> Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
> Imperial College, St Mary's Campus
> Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG
> 
> Tel  +44 (0)20 7594 1602     Fax (+44) 020 7594 3193
> 
> f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk
> f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com
> 
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> 
> 
>

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:51:44 +0000 Federico Calboli wrote:
> Dear All, 
> 
> I saved by mistake the environment I was working in after typing q(),
> and now I get the annoying message:
> 
> [Previously saved workspace restored]
> 
> I have already deleted all the objects in the environment, saving it
> as an empty environment, so it's just a matter of nitpicking I
> suppose. The message does not appear if I start R from any other place
> in the directory tree.
The saved workspace is stored in the .RData in that particular
directory. It is loaded when you start R in that directory. If you
remove the file, it cannot be loaded anymore.
Z
> I am reading ?Startup and related docs, but I am utterly failing to
> understand how to remove [Previously saved workspace restored] when I
> call R from the offending dir...
> 
> I am using R on Debian Sarge x86
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Federico Calboli
> -- 
> Federico C. F. Calboli
> Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
> Imperial College, St Mary's Campus
> Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG
> 
> Tel  +44 (0)20 7594 1602     Fax (+44) 020 7594 3193
> 
> f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk
> f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide!
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 08:51:44PM +0000, Federico Calboli wrote:
> I saved by mistake the environment I was working in after typing q(),
> and now I get the annoying message:
> 
> [Previously saved workspace restored]
> 
> I have already deleted all the objects in the environment, saving it as
> an empty environment, so it's just a matter of nitpicking I suppose.
The
> message does not appear if I start R from any other place in the
> directory tree.
> 
> I am reading ?Startup and related docs, but I am utterly failing to
> understand how to remove [Previously saved workspace restored] when I
> call R from the offending dir...
> 
> I am using R on Debian Sarge x86
There is a file called .Rdata, containing the saved workspace, in the
"offending directory". Following Unix convention, the file is not
normally
displayed by ls and other programs because its name begins with a dot.
See "Data permanency and removing objects" in the R-intro.

If you don't want the saved stuff anymore, simply delete that file.

Best regards, Jan
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