>On 10/14/2005 1:08 PM, Berton Gunter wrote:
>> ?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
>
>That won't work in Windows, where the dialogs don't consider directories
>to be files so won't return them.
>
>As far as I know no platform lets you setwd() to a file (even though
>this might make sense: setwd("foo") could mean change to foo if it's a
>directory, to the directory it's in if it's a file).
>
>Duncan Murdoch
It might be better to allow file.choose() to select and return
directories. Allowing setwd("foo") to work if "foo" is a file won't help
if you're starting a new project in an empty directory.
Mike
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Re: [R] Setting working directory interactively within a function
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