[R] Construct a File Path: File Path Unknown

[William Dunlap]

Try using normalizePath("foo.pdf") after creating
the file.  It should return an absolute path to
an existing file.

Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Tyler Rinker
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 12:43 PM
> To: jvadams at usgs.gov
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Construct a File Path: File Path Unknown
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> 
> Jean, Thank you.  It's slow but it works. dir("C:/", pattern="plotrix.pdf", full.names=T,
> ignore.case=T, recursive=T)   Does anyone have a faster way? If it helps using:
> shell.exec("search-ms://query=plotrix.pdf")    utilizes windows's search bar to find the file (this is
> quick), however it opens a screen that finds the file rather than providing me with the search path.
> For a look at what that looks like on a windows machine click here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-
> US/windows7/products/features/windows-search I'm thinking there's a way to use this method to extract
> the path even faster than dir(). TylerTo: tyler_rinker at hotmail.com
> CC: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Construct a File Path: File Path Unknown
> From: jvadams at usgs.gov
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:19:37 -0500
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> Try the dir() function.
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> ?dir
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> # for example
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> dir("c:/", pattern="foo.pdf",
> full.names=T, ignore.case=T, recursive=T)
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> Jean
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> Tyler Rinker wrote on 08/25/2011 11:54:28 AM:
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> > I am not a programmer and am self-taught so I may lack the
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> > language to ask this appropriately (perhaps why an rseek search was
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> > unfruitful).
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> > Let's say I saved a file to my desktop called foo.pdf.  Then
> I want
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> > R to return the file path of
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> > foo.pdf (pretend I don't know the location(path) of foo.pdf).
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> > Question: How would I get R to return the unknown file path for
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> > foo.pdf.
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> > I hypothesize that the find find.package() function code contains
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> > the secret for doing this but am unable to parse out the snippet to
> do so.
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> > I attempted file.path("foo.pdf")
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> > which R returns [1] "foo.pdf"  #not what I want
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> > R version 2.14 beta
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> > Windows 7
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> > Reproducible code is not appropriate for this query
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