[R] file.choose()

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

This is off-topic, it's been a while since I update my version of Windows.

Running R 3.6.3, RGui on Windows 7, sessionInfo() below.

The unexpected behavior I got is different from those posted so far.
In all cases the dialog window was closed without choosing a file.
Note: I don't have a directory C:\data so I changed to the home dir.

old_dir <- getwd()
old_dir
#[1] "C:/Programas/R/R-3.6.3/bin/x64"

file.choose()    # works, current dir was not changed

setwd('~/')
getwd()
#[1] "C:/Users/Rui/Documents"

file.choose()    # doesn't work, still in "C:/Programas/R/R-3.6.3/bin/x64"
file.choose()    # works at the second time

setwd('C:/')
getwd()
#[1] "C:/"

file.choose()    # doens't work, still in "C:/Users/Rui/Documents"
file.choose()    # works at the second time

setwd(old_dir)
getwd()
#[1] "C:/Programas/R/R-3.6.3/bin/x64"

file.choose()    # doesn't work, still in "C:/"
file.choose()    # works at the second time


sessionInfo()
R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Portuguese_Portugal.1252 
LC_CTYPE=Portuguese_Portugal.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=Portuguese_Portugal.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C 

[5] LC_TIME=Portuguese_Portugal.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.6.3


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas



Às 08:05 de 04/03/20, Ivan Calandra escreveu:
> 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
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> 56567 Neuwied, Germany
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> 
> 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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