[R] project path in Rmd

Ivan Calandra c@|@ndr@ @end|ng |rom rgzm@de
Thu Apr 2 10:40:07 CEST 2020


Hi Jeff,

But if I do not use setwd(), the current working directory is NOT the
project directory.

That's what my problem is about... I guess I was not clear in my email...

Ivan

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On 02/04/2020 10:37, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> I recommend not using setwd. Then you can always assume your current working directory is your project directory and reference relative to that.
>
> On April 2, 2020 1:30:29 AM PDT, Ivan Calandra <calandra using rgzm.de> wrote:
>> Dear useRs,
>>
>> I believe this is R code so appropriate for this list, but let me know
>> if this relates more to RStudio itself.
>>
>> I am working on an RStudio project. In that project directory, I have a
>> folder called 'analysis' and in there a folder called 'scripts'
>> ('~/analysis/scripts').
>> My data files needed for the scripts are in '~/analysis/raw_data' and
>> the output should be in '~/analysis/derived_data'.
>>
>> My scripts are Rmd files, so when I knit them, their working directory
>> is where they are located, i.e. '~/analysis/scripts'. The problem I
>> then
>> have is to specify the path for 'raw_data' and 'derived_data' since
>> during the rendering I am not relative to the project directory
>> anymore.
>> And these folders are not subfolders of the working directory 
>> '~/analysis/scripts'.
>> I hope I am clear here...
>>
>> I would like to avoid absolute paths of course, but I do not know how
>> to
>> proceed.
>> What would be nice is a way to get the project directory in the
>> scripts,
>> rather than their working directory.
>> Does that make sense?
>>
>> Thank you in advance
>> Best,
>> Ivan



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