

 Bill, Thank you very much!  That's very fast.  Exactly what I was looking for.  Jean thank you for your response as well. Tyler> From: wdunlap@tibco.com
> To: tyler_rinker@hotmail.com; jvadams@usgs.gov
> CC: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: RE: [R] Construct a File Path: File Path Unknown
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:25:15 +0000
> 
> 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@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Tyler Rinker
> > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 12:43 PM
> > To: jvadams@usgs.gov
> > Cc: r-help@r-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [R] Construct a File Path: File Path Unknown
> > 
> > 
> > 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@hotmail.com
> > CC: r-help@r-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [R] Construct a File Path: File Path Unknown
> > From: jvadams@usgs.gov
> > Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:19:37 -0500
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Try the dir() function.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ?dir
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > # for example
> > 
> > dir("c:/", pattern="foo.pdf",
> > full.names=T, ignore.case=T, recursive=T)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Jean
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Tyler Rinker wrote on 08/25/2011 11:54:28 AM:
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > > I am not a programmer and am self-taught so I may lack the
> > 
> > > language to ask this appropriately (perhaps why an rseek search was
> > 
> > 
> > > unfruitful).
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > > Let's say I saved a file to my desktop called foo.pdf.  Then
> > I want
> > 
> > > R to return the file path of
> > 
> > > foo.pdf (pretend I don't know the location(path) of foo.pdf).
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > > Question: How would I get R to return the unknown file path for
> > 
> > > foo.pdf.
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > > I hypothesize that the find find.package() function code contains
> > 
> > > the secret for doing this but am unable to parse out the snippet to
> > do so.
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > > I attempted file.path("foo.pdf")
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > > which R returns [1] "foo.pdf"  #not what I want
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > > ===========================================
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > > R version 2.14 beta
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > > Windows 7
> > 
> > >
> > 
> > > Reproducible code is not appropriate for this query
> > 
> > >
> > 
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