[R] R command to open a file "browser" on Windows and Mac?

[Mark Sharp]

Set your path with setwd(“my_path”) and then use file.choose().

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Mark
R. Mark Sharp, Ph.D.
Director of Primate Records Database
Southwest National Primate Research Center
Texas Biomedical Research Institute
P.O. Box 760549
San Antonio, TX 78245-0549
Telephone: (210)258-9476
e-mail: msharp at TxBiomed.org







> On Aug 3, 2015, at 10:19 AM, Jonathan Greenberg <jgrn at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 
> Folks:
> 
> Is there an easy function to open a finder window (on mac) or windows
> explorer window (on windows) given an input folder?  A lot of times I want
> to be able to see via a file browser my working directory.  Is there a good
> R hack to do this?
> 
> --j
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