Unable to clear console history for Assignment

[c.baldassano]

I'm encountering an issue that I believe is the same problem reported in this previous thread:

Assignment showing code in the console

I teach an Intro to R class this summer. I have made an assignment, which comes with a template, but because this particular one was a little complicated I ran it on RStudio Cloud to make sure it was correct (I create the assignments on my computer). I then cleared the environment and restarted R - and I am pretty sure I made it an assignment after that. I was just contacted by a student saying they can see all the code that I ran (i.e. the answers to the assignment) in the console. Maybe I misunderstood how assignments work - I thought students get a clean copy? When I go to the assignment on my side, it shows up as completely clean; nothing in the console, environment or plotting pane. …

This is occurring in this project: Posit Cloud

In my view of the project, the R console looks empty, and .Rhistory is empty. However, when a student starts the assignment, they can see the last three commands I ran while testing the assignment:

In this particular case it doesn't matter much (nothing about the assignment is spoiled by seeing those three lines) but I am concerned that I don't know how to fix this issue for future assignments and projects. Is there a fix for this?

[andy_kipp]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for reporting this issue. Unfortunately, we're still working on a solution to this problem. One workaround, which we are investigating, and you are welcome to test for yourself, is to remove the directory /cloud/project/.Rproj.user/ctx before the project is copied. I recommend testing this on a sample project that you don't really need, just in case there is some unintended side effect.

-Andy