[R] file.choose()

[PIKAL Petr]

Hi Ivan

I tried your examples and they behave as expected. Second one opens D:/ and
third should be setwd("D:/Data/") to open in Data folder.

> sessionInfo()
R Under development (unstable) (2019-07-21 r76854)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 18363)

So the problem is in your setting.

Cheers
Petr

> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help <r-help-bounces using r-project.org> On Behalf Of Ivan Calandra
> Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 4:48 PM
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> Subject: Re: [R] file.choose()
> 
> That's what I was about to answer but tried first and it did not work.
> Now I tried more and noticed an unexpected behavior:
> 
> getwd()
> [1] "C:/Users/.../Documents"
> file.choose() ## opens in "C:/Users/.../Documents" as expected
> 
> setwd("D:/")
> getwd()
> [1] "D:/"
> file.choose() ## unexpectedly, opens in "C:/Users/.../Documents"
> 
> setwd("D:/Data")
> getwd()
> [1] "D:/Data"
> file.choose() ## opens in "D:/Data" as expected
> 
> Is that normal behavior?
> 
> Ivan
> 
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> On 03/03/2020 16:36, David Winsemius wrote:
> >
> > On 3/3/20 7:29 AM, Dennis Weygand wrote:
> >> How do I change the default directory that file.choose() (Windows-10)
> >> uses?
> >
> >
> > ?setwd
> >
> >
> 
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