Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812051145360.7840@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 2008-12-05T11:47:14Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: constructing a relative path
In-Reply-To: <EFC505C420E24C57A5BC05B26FFD81AE@TCPC000>
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Mark Heckmann wrote:
> Dear R-users,
>
> I want to construct a relative path in R, but I am not able to do it or to
> find a function that does it.
> My solution is somewhat awkward as it uses string manipulation.
>
> The problem: I have the following folder structure.
>
> project_folder
> |
> |----- data
> |----- scripts
> |----- output
>
> My working directory is the scripts folder.
> Now I want to construct a relative path to the data folder.
>
> Is there an easy way or a function?
file.path("..", "data")
should work on any R platform (actually "../data" will on any current R
platform).
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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