many thanks! ill try going down the environment variables path as i kind of
know how to do it.
abhisek
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Abhisek <shi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Ive tried trawling the lists for a solution but I could not find any
> > matches. I am typing up all my code on a Linux machine and I call this
> > other script file from my script file using source("foo.r"). Now
> sometimes
> > i access my folder from my Windows machine at work (the files are on
> > dropbox). But of course my windows machine would not understand the
> linux
> > path name.
> >
> > Is there any syntax for searching the file system for "foo.r" from within
> > the script file that I am writing? I know that I can always change the
> > working directory to the one where the script file is stored but is there
> > any other way?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Abhisek Banerjee
> >
>
> You could (1) use file.exists to successively check specific paths.
> It will return FALSE if the path does not exist letting you skip over
> the bad paths. See ?file.exists
>
> You could alternately (2) set an option in the your .Profile on both
> machines (?options, ?getOption, ?Startup), (3) outside of R set up
> environment variables on both machines reading them in with Sys.getenv
> or (4) set up configuration files (e.g. a file with just one line
> giving the path to the file) which you read in from your home
> directory e.g., readLines("~/.myconfig") Note that ~ works from
> within R even on Windows and forward slashes work in Windows filenames
> from within R as well as backslashes.
>
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