R help - Aug 2015 - R command to open a file "browser" on Windows and Mac?

Folks:

Is there an easy function to open a finder window (on mac) or windows
explorer window (on windows) given an input folder?  A lot of times I want
to be able to see via a file browser my working directory.  Is there a good
R hack to do this?

--j

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On 03/08/2015 11:19 AM, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
> Folks:
> 
> Is there an easy function to open a finder window (on mac) or windows
> explorer window (on windows) given an input folder?  A lot of times I want
> to be able to see via a file browser my working directory.  Is there a good
> R hack to do this?
On Windows, shell.exec(dir) will open Explorer at that directory.
(It'll do something else if dir isn't a directory name, or has spaces in
it without quotes, so you need to be a little careful.)

On OSX, system2("open", dir) should do the same.

Duncan Murdoch

Set your path with setwd(?my_path?) and then use file.choose().

You could have gotten this information sooner with a simple online search.

Mark
R. Mark Sharp, Ph.D.
Director of Primate Records Database
Southwest National Primate Research Center
Texas Biomedical Research Institute
P.O. Box 760549
San Antonio, TX 78245-0549
Telephone: (210)258-9476
e-mail: msharp at TxBiomed.org






> On Aug 3, 2015, at 10:19 AM, Jonathan Greenberg <jgrn at
illinois.edu> wrote:
> 
> Folks:
> 
> Is there an easy function to open a finder window (on mac) or windows
> explorer window (on windows) given an input folder?  A lot of times I want
> to be able to see via a file browser my working directory.  Is there a good
> R hack to do this?
> 
> --j
> 
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