Not sure, but I think the 'here' package might do what you want. It's tidyverse-affiliated but pretty stable
On Thu, Nov 23, 2023, 2:39 PM Tony Wilkes <tony_a_wil...@outlook.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a question. I hope it's not a stupid question. > > Suppose you'd want to perform version control and project isolation. You'd > create a project folder (let's call it "MyProject"), and place all the R > packages you need for that project inside a subfolder (let's say > "MyProject/MyLibrary"). Now you create and run an R-script in "MyProject". > install.packages(), library(), etc. all have a lib.loc argument to specify > the library path. So one can manually specify the path of your project, and > then you'd have your project isolation and version control fully set-up. > > But if I want to set-up the library path automatically, to make it > portable, I would need to determine the script location. In RStudio I can > use the 'rstudioapi' package, which is very stable, and so does not really > require version control. But for outside R-Studio, I have not found a very > stable package that also works. > I prefer not using external R packages that requires version control (i.e. > a package that changes often-ish): you'd need the package to access the > project library, but the project library to access the package. > > This brings me to my actual question: is it possible to determine the > source file location of an R script outside of R-Studio, without resorting > to R packages ? Or else use an R package that is VERY stable (i.e. doesn't > change every (half) a year, like tidyverse packages tend to do)? > commandArgs() used to contain the script path (apparently), but it doesn't > work for me. > > By the way: I wish to get the script path in an interactive session. > > Thank you in advance. > > Kind regards, > > Tony > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
