[Rd] New behavior when running script in package directory?

[Dominick Samperi]

Another aspect of this cleverness is that starting a script in an arbitrary
directory NOT inside a package results in the current directory set to the
user's home directory, while starting the script using R does what you
would expect: does not change the current working directory.

On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 10:38 AM Martin Maechler <maechler using stat.math.ethz.ch>
wrote:

> >>>>> Mikael Jagan
> >>>>>     on Wed, 21 Jun 2023 12:41:02 -0400 writes:
>
>     > Surely this behaviour is just a case of ESS being "too clever",
> sourcing
>     > *.R files in special way when it detects that a file belongs to a
> package
>     > (loading dependencies automatically, etc.)?
>
>     > The function ss() is defined inside of .ess.source(), which is
> defined here:
>
>     >
> https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/blob/5c4ae91cefa5c56fd13b204a9a996825af836a67/etc/ESSR/R/.basic.R#L168
>
>     > If you think that there is a bug, then you could report it there ...
>
>     > Mikael
>
> Indeed.
> I have now replied to this CC'ing to  ESS-help using ... instead of R-devel using ...
>
> It's visible in the mailing list *archives* now:
>    https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/ess-help/2023-June/013203.html
>
> Martin
>
>
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