How do I set the Windows temporary directory in R?
As far as I know setwd() does not influence where temporay files (TMPDIR, TMP, TEMP) are located - at least not for me on windows vista. As mentioned before setting environment variable should work. Also I carry R on a USB, so I don't want temporary files being written to the PC / laptop where I connect or downloaded packages for that matter. I use a Renviron.site file to make sure files are saved where I want them (Renviron.site sits in the "etc" folder of the R install files). and contains the following specifications (this works for me but can't guarantee it is good / recommended practice - for example I need to change directory "M" to match where I plug USB in ) and I created the folders specified, I don't know if R will create them if it doesn't find them: HOME=M:/ R_USER=M:/ R_LIBS_USER=M:/myRlib TMPDIR=M:/myRtmp TMP=M:/myRtmp TEMP=M:/myRtmp HTH Darren
stephen sefick wrote:
?setwd() I don't have a windows machine to work on, but this should work. On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:14 PM, andrew <andrewjohnroyal at gmail.com> wrote:
setwd On Mar 18, 12:42?pm, Jonathan Greenberg <greenb... at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
I'm trying to redirect where temporary files go under R to D:\temp\somerandomname from its default (C:\Documents and Settings\username\Temp\somerandomname) -- how do I go about doing this? --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS) University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue The Barn, Room 250N Davis, CA 95616 Cell: 415-794-5043 AIM: jgrn307, MSN: jgrn... at hotmail.com, Gchat: jgrn307
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