[R] double-click in RData file versus load( file )

Cleber Nogueira Borges klebyn at yahoo.com.br
Mon Jan 28 12:43:34 CET 2008


hello Duncan, Gabor

Many thanks  for your help!


I think that the line:

if( chartr("/","\\",getwd() )==R.home() ) setwd("C:\\")

can solve my problem in this  moment!! :-)


Thanks again

Cleber

> On 26/01/2008 9:03 PM, Cleber Nogueira Borges wrote:
>> hi Gabor and Duncan,
>>
>> I make a test and I find that the key of problem
>> is the setwd() command in my Rprofile.site
>>
>> I don't understand this behaviour yet! :-(
>
> I understand it now.  It's a small bug in the startup code.
>
> When you specify a file to restore on the command line, it has two 
> effects:  it changes the working directory to the directory of that 
> file, and it loads the file.  Unfortunately, the code that loaded the 
> file assumed it was in the current directory and used a relative 
> filename, not an absolute path.  (I think this was due to workarounds 
> for behaviour of old Windows versions that are no longer supported.)
>
> When your Rprofile.site file changed the working directory, R tried to 
> load the test.RData file from there, and failed.  So you didn't get 
> what you wanted.
>
> I'll fix this in R-devel and R-patched, and it should make it into the 
> next release.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>


	
	
		
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