R help - Nov 2003 - Rweb: how to use source()

I cannot discover how to set or find the working directory in
Rweb, so that I can source() a file from the server.  The file I
source() must refer to a data file in its directory.

setwd() does not do anything, and getwd() says that the working
directory is in /var/www/cgi-bin/ (on Linux).

(I have a student who installed R on her own computer and
analyzed half of her data, and then her computer died.  Rweb
could let her finish, if I could just take what she's done so
far, which I have, and put it on my server.)

-- 
Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Home page:            http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron

It seem a user-permission problem.
May be some mistake at Rweb configuration
level (look at the RwebConfig file)?
First you have to try R standalone.

A.S.

----------------------------

Alessandro Semeria
Models and Simulations Laboratory
Montecatini Environmental Research Center (Edison Group),
Via Ciro Menotti 48,
48023 Marina di Ravenna (RA), Italy
Tel. +39 544 536811
Fax. +39 544 538663
E-mail: alessandro.semeria at cramont.it

For the code, just copy and paste it through the clipboard 
into Rweb.

For the data, you enter the URL in the area where Rweb says 
External Data Entry.  Alternately, you can use the R dput command
on your machine to turn the data into an R statement and then add it 
to the source file, eliminating the need for reading an external 
data file.

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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 07:24:35 -0500 
From: Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> 
Subject: [R] Rweb: how to use source() 

 
 
I cannot discover how to set or find the working directory in
Rweb, so that I can source() a file from the server. The file I
source() must refer to a data file in its directory.

setwd() does not do anything, and getwd() says that the working
directory is in /var/www/cgi-bin/ (on Linux).

(I have a student who installed R on her own computer and
analyzed half of her data, and then her computer died. Rweb
could let her finish, if I could just take what she's done so
far, which I have, and put it on my server.)

-- 
Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron

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