[Rd] __FILE__ for R

hadley wickham h.wickham at gmail.com
Fri Apr 4 17:50:53 CEST 2008


Sorry, that should be:

FILE <- (function() {
  attr(body(sys.function()), "srcfile")
})()$filename

Hadley

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:34 AM, hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've often missed the ability to get the directory of the currently
>  running script.  It's actually been possible for a while:
>
>  FILE <- (function() {
>   attr(body(sys.function()), "srcfile")
>  })()
>
>  thanks to Duncan's recent changes to file parsing.  This is pretty
>  useful for sourcing in files relative to the current script, rather
>  than the working directory.
>
>  Hadley
>
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>  http://had.co.nz/
>



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