[R] source() fails in same directory as script: cannot find file

Bert Gunter
Sat, 27 Oct 2018 14:18:54 -0000

Your messages got through fine (to me, anyway). I suspect people are just
failing to read through the threads.

-- Bert

On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 6:35 AM Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 10:42 PM Jeff Newmiller
> <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> >
> > I haven't seen mention of what OS or filesystem types are
involved, but
> it superficially looks like it might be one of those cases where the
> filesystem is case-sensitive... check that all your directory and file
> names are capitalized correctly.
>
> Just out of curiosity -- are my messages to r-help not going through?
> I correctly diagnosed the problem as a simple typo in my message on
> Oct 26 at 2:54 PM, but then the discussion just continued as if that
> never happened.
>
> >
> > On October 26, 2018 1:11:19 PM PDT, Jeremie Juste <
> jeremiejuste at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >I suspect the error is in the file input-summerize.R.
> > >
> > >I creating a new file input-summerize2.R with only
print("hello") for
> > >instance and check if
> > >
> > >>
> >
>
>setwd("~/documents/white-papers/geochemistry/willamette-river-mercury/scripts")
> > >> source("input-summerize2.R")
> > >
> > >works
> > >
> > >Hope it helps,
> > >
> > >Jeremie
> > >
> > >
> > >Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> writes:
> > >
> > >> On Fri, 26 Oct 2018, Ista Zahn wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I'm confused. It seems the error is that the file
can't be found; if
> > >>> so, what does it matter what is in the file?
> > >>
> > >> Ista,
> > >>
> > >>   Beats me.
> > >>
> > >>> As far as I can see you are either not in the directory
you think
> > >you
> > >>> are, or b) the file is not named what you think it is.
> > >>
> > >>   Yes, the error seems that R cannot find the file, but
it's in the
> > >same
> > >> directory and the file does exist:
> > >>
> > >>> getwd()
> > >> [1]
> >
>
>"/home/rshepard/documents/white-papers/geochemistry/willamette-river-mercury/scripts"
> > >>
> > >>
> >
>~/documents/white-papers/geochemistry/willamette-river-mercury/scripts]$
> > >ls input-summerize.R
> > >> input-summerize.R
> > >>
> > >>   So, R is running in the scripts/ directory and the script
is there,
> > >too.
> > >>
> > >>   This is why I asked for help as the error makes no sense to
me.
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >>
> > >> Rich
> > >>
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