Oops. Thanks, all. Egg on my face. I forgot about that little detail (on Windows, anyway).
However, you can still do it via dirname(file.choose()) to get the directory, on Windows,anyway, right? If that isn't implemented on another platform, than you could mimic the dirname() code by using gsub() to trim off the last file part of the path to get your directory. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics South San Francisco, CA "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process." - George E. P. Box > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Baer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 10:48 AM > To: Berton Gunter > Subject: RE: [R] Setting working directory interactively > within a function > > Hi Berton -I did check the docs first and tried this soloution, but > unfortunately on a Mac this doesn't work - you get a file choice > dialogue box, but it doesn't allow you to open (select) a directory, > only to choose a file. I suppose I should have noted this in my email. > > Thanks, > > --Paul > > >?setwd > >e.g. setwd(file.choose()) > > > >BTW, you could have found this on your own via help.search('working > >directory') . Base R has quite good docs -- you should try > them first. > > > >-- Bert Gunter > >Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics > >South San Francisco, CA > > > >"The business of the statistician is to catalyze the > scientific learning > >process." - George E. P. Box > > > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Baer > >> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 9:56 AM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: [R] Setting working directory interactively > within a function > >> > >> Is there anyway to have a function prompt the user for a working > >> directory, equivalent to file.choose()? > >> > >> --Paul > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> [email protected] mailing list > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > >> PLEASE do read the posting guide! > >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >> > > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
