R help - Oct 2005 - Fw: Setting working directory interactively within a function

>On 10/14/2005 1:08 PM, Berton Gunter wrote:
>> ?setwd
>> e.g. setwd(file.choose())
>> 
>> BTW, you could have found this on your own via help.search('working
>> directory') . Base R has quite good docs -- you should try them
first.
>> 
>> -- Bert Gunter
>
>That won't work in Windows, where the dialogs don't consider
directories
>to be files so won't return them.
>
>As far as I know no platform lets you setwd() to a file (even though 
>this might make sense:  setwd("foo") could mean change to foo if
it's a
>directory, to the directory it's in if it's a file).
>
>Duncan Murdoch
It might be better to allow file.choose() to select and return 
directories.  Allowing setwd("foo") to work if "foo" is a
file won't help
if you're starting a new project in an empty directory.

Mike
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12:27 PM -----

Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca> 
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10/14/2005 10:24 AM

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Re: [R] Setting working directory interactively within a function







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