How to disable "Save workspace image?" prompt in R?

Question

When I exit the interactive R shell, it displays an annoying prompt every time:

 > > Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n 

I'm always answering "no" to it, because if I wished to save my work, I'd do that before trying to exit.

How to get rid of the prompt?

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^{Note: see ?save.image}

Answer 1

You can pass the --no-save command line argument when you start R, or you can override the q function:

utils::assignInNamespace(   "q",    function(save = "no", status = 0, runLast = TRUE)    {     .Internal(quit(save, status, runLast))   },    "base" ) 

Put the above code in your .Rprofile so it will be run on startup for every session.

Answer 2

Haven't found the easiest Linux solution yet :)

On ubuntu add the following line to your ~/.bashrc:

alias R='R --no-save' 

Every time you start the R console with R, it will be passed the --no-save option.