path.expand("~") also seems to work on Windows XP. On 3/23/07, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But the request was for a *generic* solution. On Windows there > might not be anything corresponding to a home directory (and the rw-FAQ > discusses the concept and how R resolves this). > > The best answer I know of is path.expand("~"). > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Henrik Andersson wrote: > > > Sys.getenv("HOME") works in Linux at least > > But not all Unix shells have it set, and a user can unset or reset it. To > be perverse: > > gannet% unsetenv HOME > gannet% R --slave > Sys.getenv("HOME") > HOME > "" > path.expand("~") > [1] "/data/gannet/ripley" > q() > > (If you set HOME to something other than your home directory it will be > honoured.) > > > > > - Henrik > > > > Andris Jankevics wrote: > >> If you want get a username of user currently running R on Linux,you can > >> use a > >> system command and read enviroment variables: > >> > >> paste("/home/",system ("whoami",intern=TRUE),sep="") > > And my home directory is not '/home/ripley' on any of the Linux boxes I > use (even though it exists on some of them), e.g. on my compute server > > > path.expand("~") > [1] "/data/gannet/ripley" > > and on our main cluster > > > path.expand("~") > [1] "/home/markov/ripley" > > > >> Andris Jankevics > >> > >> On Piektdiena, 23. Marts 2007 14:30, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > >> > >>> Is there any generic function that gets the "home" directory? This > >>> should return /home/<user> in Linux and > >>> x:/Documents and Settings/<user> (or whatever) in Windows XP. > > [...] > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > ______________________________________________ > 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 > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >
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