[R] file.choose but for folder/directory?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 7/10/2006 8:51 PM, Randy Zelick wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> This question is relative to WindowsXP, using R 2.2.1:

Time to upgrade.  choose.dir (mentioned by Rich) was introduced in the 
next release.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> I am looking for a function that allows a user to interactively choose a 
> directory so I can use list.files to process all the files in that 
> directory. I've looked at getwd, but this is not interactive. The 
> functions file.choose and choose.files are the right idea, but these only 
> permit selection of a file within a folder, not the folder itself.
> 
> Thanks for any and all suggestions,
> 
> =Randy=
> 
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