Thanks this does it:
script.name <- basename(sys.frame(1)$ofile) On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <h...@biostat.ucsf.edu>wrote: > See findSourceTraceback() of R.utils. /Henrik > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:58 PM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Aug 27, 2013, at 07:12 , nevil amos wrote: > > > >> Is there a fuction that will allow me to retrun the filename for a > script > >> from within that script. > > > > Not a standard one, but you should be able to get at it via a bit of > breaking and entering: sys.status() and friends (sys.calls, sys.frames) > give you access to the evaluation frame of source() which contains a > variable called "file". > > > > -pd > > > >> > >> fir instance > >> > >> If I have a script "myscript.r": > >> > >> FileName<-unknown.fucntion() > >> print(FileName) > >> > >> > >> > >> and run it > >> source("myscript.r") > >> > >> will return > >> "myscript.r" > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> Nevil Amos > >> > >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-help@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. > > > > -- > > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > > Phone: (+45)38153501 > > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@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.