[R] How to start R in mac with the current directory as the current working directory?

[David Winsemius]

On Oct 8, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Peng Yu wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Steve Lianoglou
> <mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Peng,
>>
>> On Oct 8, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I installed R on mac (see below). When I start it from a terminal by
>>> the following command, the current working directory is always '~'  
>>> no
>>> matter where my current directory is in the terminal. I'm  
>>> wondering if
>>> there is a way to make the gui R on mac inherent the current  
>>> directory
>>> from the terminal.
>>>
>>> /Applications/R.app/Contents/MacOS/R
>>
>> Look in the R > Preferences >Startup dialog under the "Initial  
>> working
>> directory" section. You'll see you can run this from the command  
>> line in
>> order to open R.app within a given directory:
>>
>> $ open -a R.app <dir-or-file>
>>
>> So, to open in the current directory, just type:
>>
>> $ open -a R.app .
>>
>> You can make an alias for this and set it in your .bash_profile in  
>> order to
>> make your life easier, maybe:
>>
>> alias r="open -a R.app ."
>>
>> Small r so it doesn't interfere with /usr/bin/R
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>
> I installed http://r.research.att.com/R-2.9.2.pkg
>
> Then, I run the following command in a terminal.
>
> open -a /Applications/R64.app/Contents/MacOS/R .
>
> I get the following errors in the gui window. If run
> /Applications/R64.app/Contents/MacOS/R directly, I'll not get the
> errors. I'm wondering what the problem is. How to fix it?
>
> SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for long ID 0 (pBase =
> 0x101bd1b80, p = 0x101bd1b84, pEnd = 0x101bd1b88)
> SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for long ID 0 (pBase =
> 0x114241120, p = 0x114241124, pEnd = 0x114241128)

Those are not errors.

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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT