Thank you Gabor and Duncan for your replys.

Mvh.
Marie


On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck@gmail.com
> wrote:

> See:
>
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-January/184745.html
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Marie Sivertsen <mariesivert@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Dear useRs,
> >
> > I have a collection of source file and some of these call others.  The
> files
> > are distribute among a number of directories, and to know how to call
> some
> > other file they need to know what file is currently executed.
> >
> > As example, I have a file 'search.R' located in directory 'bin' which
> needs
> > to access the file 'terms.conf' located in the directory 'conf', a
> sibling
> > of 'bin'.  I can have somethings like readLines('../conf/terms.conf') in
> > search.R, but this work only if search.R is executed from bin, when getwd
> is
> > 'bin'.  But when search.R calls from the parent as bin/search.R or any
> other
> > derectory then R complains that it could not find the file
> > '../conf/terms.conf'.
> >
> > So my questions is:  how can the file search.R, when executied, discover
> its
> > own location and load terms.conf from <location of
> > search.R>/../conf/terms.conf?  the location of search.R can be unrelated
> to
> > the current directory.
> >
> > Mvh.
> > Marie
> >
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