R help - Mar 2013 - Where does R store workspace and commands that load on startup

When I close R and answer yes to save workspace, R automatically loads it and
apparently also the command history at start up. I would like to know where R
stores this information. I know that I can save .RData and .Rhistory files, but
I would like to know how(where) R stores this information automatically. I have
not found any .RData or .Rhistory files associated with start up.
I am running 2.15.3 on Ubuntu operating system on PC (Zorin). If there is a
difference between Windows and Debian, I will also ask the Debian mail list.

Thank you, 

Roy Robertson 



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By default R saves them as .RData and .Rhistory in the working
directory - files with names beginning with a . are invisible on linux
by default.
ls -a
at a shell command line in that directory will show them to you.

Sarah

On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 1:49 PM,  <jroyrobertson at comcast.net>
wrote:
> When I close R and answer yes to save workspace, R automatically loads it
and apparently also the command history at start up. I would like to know where
R stores this information. I know that I can save .RData and .Rhistory files,
but I would like to know how(where) R stores this information automatically. I
have not found any .RData or .Rhistory files associated with start up.
> I am running 2.15.3 on Ubuntu operating system on PC (Zorin). If there is a
difference between Windows and Debian, I will also ask the Debian mail list.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Roy Robertson
>
>

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