I think the idea of defining dir1 and dir2 is a good one. If you want to simplify life even further, you can put these into files that get initialised when R starts. See help(Startup) for details.
Regards, Adai On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 16:54 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Tom, > > You can define your working directory by using: > > setwd("C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\My Documents\qpaper7\R Project Started > 19 Dec 05") > > check that your file is there: > list.files() > > and then use: > > source("myFile.txt") > > the machine should load "myFile" > > You can go to another directory: > setwd("anotherdir") > > and repeat the procedure. > > Or even better if you define a number of directories in an external file: > > dir1 <- c(C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\My Documents\qpaper7\") > dir2 <- c(C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\My Documents\") > > and after loading the file at the beginning of the sesion you can use: > > setwd("dir1") etc. > > Is it of any help to you? > > Cheers, > > Augusto > > > -------------------------------------------- > Augusto Sanabria. MSc, PhD. > Mathematical Modeller > Risk Research Group > Geospatial & Earth Monitoring Division > Geoscience Australia (www.ga.gov.au) > Cnr. Jerrabomberra Av. & Hindmarsh Dr. > Symonston ACT 2609 > Ph. (02) 6249-9155 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas L Jones > Sent: Wednesday, 22 February 2006 4:31 PM > To: R-project help > Subject: [R] How do I tell it which directory to use? > > > >From Tom: > > In R 2.2.0 under Windows, I want to be able to give it a filename such > as "myFile.txt" without the quotes. But actually I mean: > > C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\My Documents\qpaper7\R Project Started > 19 Dec 05\myFile.txt > > If I were to repeat this each time, my computer would get all bored > and cranky and start to drop bits (only a joke, of course). I think I > want to set the Home directory or the working directory or some > directory or other to the above directory. I may or may not want to > set some environmental variables. > > R 2.2.0; working directly from the console and copying and pasting > code which I want to test into the console. Windows XP Home Edition. > Administrator privileges are enabled. A curve ball: There are two > accounts, "Tom" and "Jones;" the data are stored under "Tom," whereas > the computation is being done under the "Jones" account. I won't bore > you with the details of why I am doing this. > > I was able to call Sys.getenv ("R_USER") and get the home directory. > > I am a newbie to R and not familiar with the terminology. > > Tom > Thomas L. Jones, Ph.D., Computer Science > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html