R help - Sep 2009 - set choose.files directory?

Hi,

I've been trying to set the directory for choose.files as follows:

[R2.9.0 running on XP]

setwd("C:/Documents and Settings/2/Data")
getwd()

infile2 = choose.files(filters = Filters[c("txt","All"),],
caption =
"Choose ECD datafile")
#<...do a bunch of stuff...>

It appears the working directory isn't updated until after choose.files() 
executes. getwd() returns the correct path, as set by setwd(), but the path 
does not appear to be used by choose.files() unless I execute 
choose.files() a second time.

Help.  Thanks.

Martin

See http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/Rhelp08/2009-March/192978.html

You can do something like:
default.search = paste(getwd(),"/*.txt",sep="")
infile2 = choose.files(default.search,filters
Filters[c("txt","All"),], caption = "Choose ECD
datafile")

Schalk Heunis


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:57 PM,  <mdusaire at umn.edu>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to set the directory for choose.files as follows:
>
> [R2.9.0 running on XP]
>
> setwd("C:/Documents and Settings/2/Data")
> getwd()
>
> infile2 = choose.files(filters =
Filters[c("txt","All"),], caption = "Choose
> ECD datafile")
> #<...do a bunch of stuff...>
>
> It appears the working directory isn't updated until after
choose.files()
> executes. getwd() returns the correct path, as set by setwd(), but the path
> does not appear to be used by choose.files() unless I execute
choose.files()
> a second time.
>
> Help. ?Thanks.
>
> Martin
>
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