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

Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com
Fri Mar 23 15:02:26 CET 2007


From: Gabor Grothendieck
> 
> See:
> 
> ?R.home

That's not what Alberto wanted:  It gives the location of the R
installation, not where user's home directory is.  AFAIK Windows does
not set the HOME environment variable by default.

> ?dput
> 
> On 3/23/07, Alberto Monteiro <albmont at centroin.com.br> 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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