[R] file.choose()
Ivan Calandra
c@|@ndr@ @end|ng |rom rgzm@de
Wed Mar 4 09:53:36 CET 2020
Well, actually it doesn't matter much because I almost never use this
function, and when I do, I use RStudio projects anyway with relative paths.
It was just out of curiosity and trying to understand why it behaves in
this (unexpected) way.
Thanks,
Ivan
--
Dr. Ivan Calandra
TraCEr, laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments
MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and
Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution
Schloss Monrepos
56567 Neuwied, Germany
+49 (0) 2631 9772-243
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Calandra
On 04/03/2020 9:47, PIKAL Petr wrote:
> Hm, as I wrote, something is weird with your installation or machine.
>
>> version
> _
> platform x86_64-w64-mingw32
> arch x86_64
> os mingw32
> system x86_64, mingw32
> status Under development (unstable)
> major 3
> minor 7.0
> year 2019
> month 07
> day 21
> svn rev 76854
> language R
> version.string R Under development (unstable) (2019-07-21 r76854)
> nickname Unsuffered Consequences
> I do not have other version available so mayby others could adivice what is
> going on.
>
>> getwd()
> [1] "O:/Dokumenty/STAT/pracovni"
>> setwd("D:/")
>> file.choose()
> Error in file.choose() : file choice cancelled
>
>> dir()
> [1] "$RECYCLE.BIN" "archiv"
> [3] "Cecko" "COzak.csv"
> ...
> 13] "vypal" "Windows Burn Temp Files"
>
>> setwd("D:/archiv/")
>> getwd()
> [1] "D:/archiv"
>> dir()
> [1] "CC" "disketa z mereni barvy" "jine"
>
> [4] "prezentace" "TEMP" "zdroje"
>
> [7] "zpravy"
> Cheers
> Petr
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: R-help <r-help-bounces using r-project.org> On Behalf Of Ivan Calandra
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 9:06 AM
>> To: r-help using r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] file.choose()
>>
>> Thanks Petr for checking.
>>
>> This unexpected behavior is reproducible on my machine, both with the RGui
>> and RStudio, both with R3.6.2 and 3.6.3.
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29)
>> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 10 x64
>> (build 18362) Matrix products: default
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United
>> Kingdom.1252
>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5]
>> LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252 attached base packages:
>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
> loaded via a
>> namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] compiler_3.6.3 tools_3.6.3
>>
>> Couldn't be that it behaves differently when the working directory is the
> root of
>> the drive (D:/) vs. a folder on the drive (D:/Data)?
>>
>> Ivan
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Ivan Calandra
>> TraCEr, laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments MONREPOS
>> Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution
>> Schloss Monrepos
>> 56567 Neuwied, Germany
>> +49 (0) 2631 9772-243
>> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Calandra
>>
>> On 04/03/2020 7:55, PIKAL Petr wrote:
>>> 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
>>>> To: r-help using r-project.org
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dr. Ivan Calandra
>>>> TraCEr, laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments MONREPOS
>>>> Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural
>>>> Evolution Schloss Monrepos
>>>> 56567 Neuwied, Germany
>>>> +49 (0) 2631 9772-243
>>>> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Calandra
>>>>
>>>> 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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