[R] How do I set the Windows temporary directory in R?

[Steven McKinney]

Check help for tempfile() and tempdir()

You can set an environment variable
as discussed in the help
to point to D:\temp

>From ?tempfile:
 
 By default, the filenames will be 
 in the directory given by tempdir(). 
 This will be a subdirectory of the 
 temporary directory found by the 
 following rule. The environment variables 
 TMPDIR, TMP and TEMP are checked in turn 
 and the first found which points to a 
 writable directory is used: if none 
 succeeds ‘/tmp’ is used.

HTH

Steven McKinney, Ph.D.

Statistician
Molecular Oncology and Breast Cancer Program
British Columbia Cancer Research Centre

email: smckinney +at+ bccrc +dot+ ca

tel: 604-675-8000 x7561

BCCRC
Molecular Oncology
675 West 10th Ave, Floor 4
Vancouver B.C. 
V5Z 1L3
Canada




-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org on behalf of Jonathan Greenberg
Sent: Tue 3/17/2009 6:42 PM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] How do I set the Windows temporary directory in R?
 
I'm trying to redirect where temporary files go under R to 
D:\temp\somerandomname from its default (C:\Documents and 
Settings\username\Temp\somerandomname) -- how do I go about doing this?

--j

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