This is the same as PR#9959, a known Vista bug. It is documented under ?choose.dir.
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, merrick.mccracken at gmail.com wrote:
Full_Name: Merrick McCracken Version: 2.6.1 OS: Vista Home Premium 32-bit Submission from: (NULL) (63.239.240.2) In the R GUI I select File>Change dir... to change the working directory and select browse and the only folders available to select are those on the Desktop and none others. I am running in Windows Vista. If I were to select Load Workspace... or Source R Code... I can browse freely through my hard drive but with the Browse option in Change dir... I cannot. Thanks.
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