On 9 January 2019 at 17:57, Iñaki Ucar wrote: | Did you check Sys.getenv("OLDPWD")? I checked with a knitr vignette | and the correct path was there.
Code: [...] <<preliminaries,echo=FALSE,results=hide>>= prettyVersion <- packageVersion("someNameHere") prettyDate <- format(Sys.Date(), "%B %e, %Y") user <- Sys.getenv("USER") dir <- getwd() olddir <- Sys.getenv("OLDPWD") @ [...] \date{Built on \Sexpr{prettyDate} using version \Sexpr{prettyVersion}} \maketitle Built by '\Sexpr{user}' in directory '\Sexpr{dir}' coming from directory '\Sexpr{olddir}'. Comes up with an empty / unset olddir when I do R CMD build someNameHere; R CMD INSTALL someNameHere_1.2.3.tar.gz No mas :-/ Your idea about the logfile is fair, but I would *much* prefer to have something unconditional. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel