Setting working directory interactively within a function

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Baer [mailto:pbaer at berkeley.edu] 
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 10:48 AM
To: Berton Gunter
Subject: RE: [R] Setting working directory interactively 
within a function

Hi Berton -I did check the docs first and tried this soloution, but 
unfortunately on a Mac this doesn't work - you get a file choice 
dialogue box, but it doesn't allow you to open (select) a directory, 
only to choose a file. I suppose I should have noted this in my email.

Thanks,

--Paul

?setwd
e.g. setwd(file.choose())

BTW, you could have found this on your own via help.search('working
directory') . Base R has quite good docs -- you should try 

them first.

-- Bert Gunter
Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics
South San Francisco, CA

"The business of the statistician is to catalyze the 

scientific learning

process."  - George E. P. Box

 -----Original Message-----
 From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
 [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Paul Baer
 Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 9:56 AM
 To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
 Subject: [R] Setting working directory interactively 

within a function

 Is there anyway to have a function prompt the user for a working
 directory, equivalent to file.choose()?

 --Paul