R help - May 2010 - How to delete the previously saved workspace restored

Dear all,

I am a new user of R, here I have a question about remove the previous 
restored workspace.  I saved the workspace last time, but R always 
automatically load the workspace when I open it.  I try to remove the 
object and then close R without saving. But next time when I open R, it 
always load the previous workspace. I want to delete the .RData in the 
directory, but I have no clue where is the .RData directory.

The message is "Workspace restored from /Users/wei/.RData"

How could I avoid from this directory? because there is a dot before, I 
do not know where I can find this file.

Also I already try this command : rm(list=ls())   But R still load the 
previous workspace.

With many thanks for any advice!!

Best,
Wei

On May 31, 2010, at 5:10 AM, Yanwei Tan wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am a new user of R, here I have a question about remove the  
> previous restored workspace.  I saved the workspace last time, but R  
> always automatically load the workspace when I open it.  I try to  
> remove the object and then close R without saving. But next time  
> when I open R, it always load the previous workspace. I want to  
> delete the .RData in the directory, but I have no clue where is  
> the .RData directory.
>
> The message is "Workspace restored from /Users/wei/.RData"
It tells you that it is in the /Users/wei/ directory.
>
> How could I avoid from this directory? because there is a dot  
> before, I do not know where I can find this file.
>
> Also I already try this command : rm(list=ls())   But R still load  
> the previous workspace.
What OS? MacOSX? You can turn on showing dotted files which are by  
default hidden. Or you could open a Terminal window and issue the  
command

  rm /Users/wei/.RData

You could alternatively exit and save after rm(list=ls()) which would  
create an empty workspace which should load very quickly.
>
> With many thanks for any advice!!
>
> Best,
> Wei

-- 
David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT

Thanks a lot David!

I use MacOSX and deleted the .RData file, then everything is fine.

Best wishes,
Wei


On 5/31/10 2:49 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
>
> On May 31, 2010, at 5:10 AM, Yanwei Tan wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am a new user of R, here I have a question about remove the 
>> previous restored workspace.  I saved the workspace last time, but R 
>> always automatically load the workspace when I open it.  I try to 
>> remove the object and then close R without saving. But next time when 
>> I open R, it always load the previous workspace. I want to delete the 
>> .RData in the directory, but I have no clue where is the .RData 
>> directory.
>>
>> The message is "Workspace restored from /Users/wei/.RData"
>
> It tells you that it is in the /Users/wei/ directory.
>
>>
>> How could I avoid from this directory? because there is a dot before, 
>> I do not know where I can find this file.
>>
>> Also I already try this command : rm(list=ls())   But R still load 
>> the previous workspace.
>
> What OS? MacOSX? You can turn on showing dotted files which are by 
> default hidden. Or you could open a Terminal window and issue the command
>
>  rm /Users/wei/.RData
>
> You could alternatively exit and save after rm(list=ls()) which would 
> create an empty workspace which should load very quickly.
>
>>
>> With many thanks for any advice!!
>>
>> Best,
>> Wei
>
>

If you start R, type :

unlink(".RData")

This deletes the workspace file.
Cheers
Joris

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Yanwei Tan
<Tan@nbio.uni-heidelberg.de>wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am a new user of R, here I have a question about remove the previous
> restored workspace.  I saved the workspace last time, but R always
> automatically load the workspace when I open it.  I try to remove the
object
> and then close R without saving. But next time when I open R, it always
load
> the previous workspace. I want to delete the .RData in the directory, but I
> have no clue where is the .RData directory.
>
> The message is "Workspace restored from /Users/wei/.RData"
>
> How could I avoid from this directory? because there is a dot before, I do
> not know where I can find this file.
>
> Also I already try this command : rm(list=ls())   But R still load the
> previous workspace.
>
> With many thanks for any advice!!
>
> Best,
> Wei
>
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