[R] where does R search when source()?

[Liaw, Andy]

Not really.  The best I can come up with is something like:

runScript <- function(script, dir="", ...) source(file.path(dir, script,
...) 
scriptdir <- "/path/to/scripts"

runScript(scriptdir, "myScript.R")

Andy

> From: Shin, Daehyok
> 
> The reason I asked is to separate script files from data files.
> Usually, I am working in the directory containing data files, but some
> script files are in other shared directories. In the case, is 
> there any way
> to access the script files conveniently without specifying 
> its absolute
> path? In other word, any way to set up default search paths for script
> files?
> 
> Daehyok Shin (Peter)
> 
> >
> > The former.  No documentation says otherwise, so why would you
> > think that it
> > might search somewhere else?
> >
> > Andy
> >
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