4 messages · anna, stephen sefick, Don MacQueen +1 more
Hello, I am using setwd() to change the working directory but I have to enter it everytime I open R, is there a way to set this permanently as a working directory? Thanx =^D
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.Rprofile is executed everytime you start up R
Hello, I am using setwd() to change the working directory but I have to enter it everytime I open R, is there a way to set this permanently as a working directory? Thanx =^D -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Change-working-directory-tp26337486p26337486.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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Stephen Sefick Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis
In R for Macintosh, there is a Preferences setting that will do this. You can also drag and drop a file onto the R icon and I believe it will change the working directory to the directory that contains the file. On unix-like systems, using the command line, it's whatever directory you start R in. I don't use R on Windows, so I don't know there, but I imagine there may be a preferences setting, or perhaps the drag and drop method works. Or maybe create a shortcut in the directory you want to be the working directory? -Don
Hello, I am using setwd() to change the working directory but I have to enter it everytime I open R, is there a way to set this permanently as a working directory? Thanx =^D -- View this message in context: http://*old.nabble.com/Change-working-directory-tp26337486p26337486.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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-------------------------------------- Don MacQueen Environmental Protection Department Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA, USA 925-423-1062
Hello, I am using setwd() to change the working directory but I have to enter it everytime I open R, is there a way to set this permanently as a working directory? Thanx =^D
Hi Anna,
I create a .First function that is run when the session starts that looks like this:
.First<-function () {
options(editor="nedit",show.signif.stars=FALSE)
source("SelectAnalysis.R")
}
This runs the file "SelectAnalysis.R" that looks like this:
cat("(B)ullying\n(P)alatability\nR\n")
answer<-toupper(readline("Enter the letter corresponding to the project - "))
if(answer == "B") setwd("/home/jim/research/bullying/R")
if(answer == "P") setwd("/home/jim/research/palatability_heavydrink/R")
if(answer == "R") setwd("/home/jim/R")
print(list.files(pattern="[.]R"))
I can then select whatever analysis I happen to be working on with a single letter (and newline) and see all of the ".R" and ".Rdata" files in that directory.
Jim