[R] return the name of source.

[Henrik Bengtsson]

See findSourceTraceback() of R.utils.  /Henrik

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:58 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 27, 2013, at 07:12 , nevil amos wrote:
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>> Is there a fuction that will allow me to retrun the filename for  a script
>> from within that script.
>
> Not a standard one, but you should be able to get at it via a bit of breaking and entering: sys.status() and friends (sys.calls, sys.frames) give you access to the evaluation frame of source() which contains a variable called "file".
>
> -pd
>
>>
>> fir instance
>>
>> If I have a script "myscript.r":
>>
>> FileName<-unknown.fucntion()
>> print(FileName)
>>
>>
>>
>> and run it
>> source("myscript.r")
>>
>> will return
>> "myscript.r"
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Nevil Amos
>>
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