Try using normalizePath("foo.pdf") after creating
the file. It should return an absolute path to
an existing file.
Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On
> Behalf Of Tyler Rinker
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 12:43 PM
> To: jvad...@usgs.gov
> Cc: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Construct a File Path: File Path Unknown
>
>
> Jean, Thank you. It's slow but it works. dir("C:/", pattern="plotrix.pdf",
> full.names=T,
> ignore.case=T, recursive=T) Does anyone have a faster way? If it helps
> using:
> shell.exec("search-ms://query=plotrix.pdf") utilizes windows's search bar
> to find the file (this is
> quick), however it opens a screen that finds the file rather than providing
> me with the search path.
> For a look at what that looks like on a windows machine click here:
> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-
> US/windows7/products/features/windows-search I'm thinking there's a way to
> use this method to extract
> the path even faster than dir(). TylerTo: tyler_rin...@hotmail.com
> CC: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Construct a File Path: File Path Unknown
> From: jvad...@usgs.gov
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:19:37 -0500
>
>
>
> Try the dir() function.
>
>
>
> ?dir
>
>
>
> # for example
>
> dir("c:/", pattern="foo.pdf",
> full.names=T, ignore.case=T, recursive=T)
>
>
>
> Jean
>
>
>
>
>
> Tyler Rinker wrote on 08/25/2011 11:54:28 AM:
>
> >
>
> > I am not a programmer and am self-taught so I may lack the
>
> > language to ask this appropriately (perhaps why an rseek search was
>
>
> > unfruitful).
>
> >
>
> > Let's say I saved a file to my desktop called foo.pdf. Then
> I want
>
> > R to return the file path of
>
> > foo.pdf (pretend I don't know the location(path) of foo.pdf).
>
> >
>
> > Question: How would I get R to return the unknown file path for
>
> > foo.pdf.
>
> >
>
> > I hypothesize that the find find.package() function code contains
>
> > the secret for doing this but am unable to parse out the snippet to
> do so.
>
> >
>
> > I attempted file.path("foo.pdf")
>
> >
>
> > which R returns [1] "foo.pdf" #not what I want
>
> >
>
> > ===========================================
>
> >
>
> > R version 2.14 beta
>
> >
>
> > Windows 7
>
> >
>
> > Reproducible code is not appropriate for this query
>
> >
>
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