Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0602281401110.24524@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 2006-02-28T13:01:43Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: relative referencing for filenames &etc
In-Reply-To: <20060227201201.51950.qmail@web37107.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Greg Tarpinian wrote:
> BACKGROUND:
> I use SAS on a daily basis and one of its most powerful features in a
> production environment is the use of LIBNAME and FILEREF statements, e.g.:
>
>
> PROC PRINTTO LOG = "&LOGDIR.\data processing.log" NEW;
> RUN;
> PROC IMPORT
> DATAFILE= "&DATADIR.\blah.xls"
> OUT = TEMP
> DBMS = EXCEL REPLACE;
> SHEET = "Sheet1";
> GETNAMES = YES;
> RUN;
>
>
> Properly setting up SAS Shortcuts in the WinXP environment, or (say)
> the UNIX equivalent of batch files in the UNIX environment will cause
> SAS to autoexecute (say) an INIT.SAS file that automatically assigns
> the LOGDIR and DATADIR macro variables used above. This is extremely
> convenient because it makes the SAS code more portable from project to
> project.
>
>
> MY QUESTION:
> Is it possible to use this kind of relative file and directory referencing
> from within R?
Perhaps you are looking for ?setwd
Uwe ligges
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
> Greg
>
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