Hello, It is very simple question. I want to go to the parent directory and give the 'system("cd ../") commnad. But it stayes at the same dirctory as before. Do I forget to give some extra parameter to system command in this case? Regards, Nader -------------------------------------------------------------- Zie ook/see also: http://www.knmi.nl/maildisclaimer.html -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Nader Emami wrote:> Hello, > > It is very simple question. I want to go to the parent directory and > give the 'system("cd ../") commnad. But it stayes at the same dirctory > as before. Do I forget to give some extra parameter to system command in > this case?That launches a shell, changes working directory in that shell, then quits. setwd("..") should do what I guess you intended, change the working directory of the R process itself. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Nader Emami wrote:> Hello, > > It is very simple question. I want to go to the parent directory and > give the 'system("cd ../") commnad. But it stayes at the same dirctory > as before. Do I forget to give some extra parameter to system command in > this case?setwd() -- Roger Bivand Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Breiviksveien 40, N-5045 Bergen, Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 93 93 e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no and: Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Gdansk, al. Mar. J. Pilsudskiego 46, PL-81 378 Gdynia, Poland. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._