[R] GUI Command Equivalent for setwd()

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Jess Mar wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Can anyone tell me if there's a command prompt on R1.5.0 Windows that will
> bring up the GUI dialog box that performs the same function as setwd() only
> interactively? I've hunted around, but can't seem to find anything.
> Something like file.choose().

There is no R-level function provided. It would be easy to add one, along
the lines of package windlgs, as there is a C function askchangedir();

It's not clear to me why one would want to this this, though.


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