[R] Get "home" directory and simple I/O

[Henrik Andersson]

Sys.getenv("HOME") works in Linux at least

- Henrik

Andris Jankevics wrote:
> If you want get a username of user currently running R on Linux,you can use a 
> system command and read enviroment variables:
>
> paste("/home/",system ("whoami",intern=TRUE),sep="")
>
>
> Andris Jankevics
>
> On Piektdiena, 23. Marts 2007 14:30, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>   
>> Is there any generic function that gets the "home" directory? This
>> should return /home/<user> in Linux and
>> x:/Documents and Settings/<user> (or whatever) in Windows XP.
>>
>> Another (unrelated) question: what is the _simplest_ way to
>> read and write R variables to/from files such that they are
>> stored in a human-readable but R-like form? For example, if
>> (say), x is a vector defined as x <- c(1, 2, 3), can I write
>> (and read) x as a file with just one line, namely: c(1, 2, 3) ?
>>
>> Alberto Monteiro
>>
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