[R] system-independent path for source()

Prof Brian D Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Wed Feb 20 21:03:50 CET 2002


On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, David R. Bickel wrote:

> I would like to use the same source files with UNIX and MacOS Carbon
> versions of R. Some of these source files access other source files
> through the source function, but UNIX separates directories with "/" and
> MacOS separates them with ":" and the beginning of the path is also
> different on each system. Is there a way to write the source files so
> that they can use source() with system-independent paths?

file.path.

>
> Or would it be easier for me to convert the source files to packages and
> use library()?
>
>
> http://www.mcg.edu/research/biostat/bickel.html
>
> David R. Bickel, PhD
> Assistant Professor
> Medical College of Georgia
> Office of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
> 1120 Fifteenth St., AE-3037
> Augusta, GA 30912-4900
>
> Tel.: 706-721-4697; Fax: 706-721-6294
> E-mail: dbickel at mail.mcg.edu or bickel at prueba.info
>

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