I like saving my R command history and having it available each time I run R:
In the shell or .bashrc:
export R_HISTFILE=~/.Rhistory
in .Rprofile:
.Last <- function() {
if (!any(commandArgs()=='--no-readline') && interactive()){
require(utils)
try(savehistory(Sys.getenv("R_HISTFILE")))
}
}