Dear all, my R files (and the .csv files as well) are saved somewhere pretty deep down my hard disk. i have to chage to working directory therefore everytime i run R (i run it on powerPC mac), which is disgusting. using the setwd command at the beginning of an R script doesnt really help because i have to find this file first by hand. I am looking for possibility to run setwd during the launch process of R are straight after it ... any suggestions ? i would be very glad about good ideas or help ! thanks in advance matthias
It may be disgusting, but I'm not how you expect R to know where to startup. On my Mac, I keep all my scripts in a per-project working directory. I therefore type cd ~/Documents/ataxia If you have multiple nested directories then why not create a directory alias (soft-link) so it is easy to "cd" to? Or move the relevant folders to a better place? Alternatively, use the Mac OS X GUI, which has an option in preferences about "initial working directory". Mark On 06/01/2008, bunny , lautloscrew.com <bunny at lautloscrew.com> wrote:> Dear all, > > my R files (and the .csv files as well) are saved somewhere pretty > deep down my hard disk. > i have to chage to working directory therefore everytime i run R (i > run it on powerPC mac), which is disgusting. > using the setwd command at the beginning of an R script doesnt really > help because i have to find this file first by hand. > > I am looking for possibility to run setwd during the launch process > of R are straight after it ... any suggestions ? > > i would be very glad about good ideas or help ! > > thanks in advance > > matthias > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ >-- Dr. Mark Wardle Specialist registrar, Neurology Cardiff, UK
Thanks folks fo all the help. i just missed the part where to set the initial starting directory. i ?ll try Rprofile. thanks so much
I have not tried this but once you know where the
(relatively permanent)working directory is then
putting setwd("my.directory") in your R.profile should
work'
--- "bunny , lautloscrew.com" <bunny at lautloscrew.com>
wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> my R files (and the .csv files as well) are saved
> somewhere pretty
> deep down my hard disk.
> i have to chage to working directory therefore
> everytime i run R (i
> run it on powerPC mac), which is disgusting.
> using the setwd command at the beginning of an R
> script doesnt really
> help because i have to find this file first by hand.
>
> I am looking for possibility to run setwd during the
> launch process
> of R are straight after it ... any suggestions ?
>
> i would be very glad about good ideas or help !
>
> thanks in advance
>
> matthias
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained,
> reproducible code.
>