Hi Jeff, But if I do not use setwd(), the current working directory is NOT the project directory.
That's what my problem is about... I guess I was not clear in my email... Ivan -- Dr. Ivan Calandra TraCEr, laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution Schloss Monrepos 56567 Neuwied, Germany +49 (0) 2631 9772-243 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Calandra On 02/04/2020 10:37, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > I recommend not using setwd. Then you can always assume your current working > directory is your project directory and reference relative to that. > > On April 2, 2020 1:30:29 AM PDT, Ivan Calandra <calan...@rgzm.de> wrote: >> Dear useRs, >> >> I believe this is R code so appropriate for this list, but let me know >> if this relates more to RStudio itself. >> >> I am working on an RStudio project. In that project directory, I have a >> folder called 'analysis' and in there a folder called 'scripts' >> ('~/analysis/scripts'). >> My data files needed for the scripts are in '~/analysis/raw_data' and >> the output should be in '~/analysis/derived_data'. >> >> My scripts are Rmd files, so when I knit them, their working directory >> is where they are located, i.e. '~/analysis/scripts'. The problem I >> then >> have is to specify the path for 'raw_data' and 'derived_data' since >> during the rendering I am not relative to the project directory >> anymore. >> And these folders are not subfolders of the working directory >> '~/analysis/scripts'. >> I hope I am clear here... >> >> I would like to avoid absolute paths of course, but I do not know how >> to >> proceed. >> What would be nice is a way to get the project directory in the >> scripts, >> rather than their working directory. >> Does that make sense? >> >> Thank you in advance >> Best, >> Ivan ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
