R help - Jun 2021 - Question about .Rhistory in Windows

I am using version 3.6.3 on Windows. For some reason, the .Rhistory file gets
over-written once in a while. I would like to avoid this so I have a complete
history over multiple R sessions. Under what conditions can the .Rhistory file
be over-written?  Is there a way to keep this file from being over-written? Any
change in the startup settings?

Thanks in advance,

Gabriel


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Hallo

I increased number of lines which .Rhistory stores before the lines start to
be overwritten.
You can do this by changing number in
Sys.setenv(R_HISTSIZE = 2000)
in Rprofile.site located in etc folder of your installation.

And from time to time I rename Rhistory to something like "210621.r"

Rhistory is plain text file so it can be viewed in any suitable text editor.

Cheers
Petr
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> Subject: [R] Question about .Rhistory in Windows
> 
> I am using version 3.6.3 on Windows. For some reason, the .Rhistory file
gets
> over-written once in a while. I would like to avoid this so I have a
complete
> history over multiple R sessions. Under what conditions can the .Rhistory
file
> be over-written?  Is there a way to keep this file from being
over-written?
> Any change in the startup settings?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Gabriel
> 
> 
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