How do I change the default directory that file.choose() (Windows-10) uses? D.P. Weygand [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On 3/3/20 7:29 AM, Dennis Weygand wrote:> How do I change the default directory that file.choose() (Windows-10) uses??setwd -- David> D.P. Weygand > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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.
Hello,
You must set the directory manually.
old_dir <- getwd()
setwd('path/new/dir')
file.choose()
#other stuff, if necessary end with
setwd(old_dir)
Hope this helps,
Rui Barradas
?s 15:29 de 03/03/20, Dennis Weygand escreveu:> How do I change the default directory that file.choose() (Windows-10) uses?
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That's what I was about to answer but tried first and it did not work.
Now I tried more and noticed an unexpected behavior:
getwd()
[1] "C:/Users/.../Documents"
file.choose() ## opens in "C:/Users/.../Documents" as expected
setwd("D:/")
getwd()
[1] "D:/"
file.choose() ## unexpectedly, opens in "C:/Users/.../Documents"
setwd("D:/Data")
getwd()
[1] "D:/Data"
file.choose() ## opens in "D:/Data" as expected
Is that normal behavior?
Ivan
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On 03/03/2020 16:36, David Winsemius wrote:>
> On 3/3/20 7:29 AM, Dennis Weygand wrote:
>> How do I change the default directory that file.choose() (Windows-10)
>> uses?
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> ?setwd
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