[R-SIG-Mac] drag & drop on R icon not changing directory

[David Winsemius]

On Nov 6, 2012, at 6:05 AM, Ken Knoblauch wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> just noticed this in R version 2.15.2 Patched (2012-11-04 r61084),
> that dragging a file onto the R icon when starting a session is not
> changing to the directory of the file.
> 
> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.2 Patched (2012-11-04 r61084)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
> 
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> Thanks.

I'm a bit puzzled by this. I never in the past expected that the working directory would be changed when doing this. Are you saying I should have expected the working directory to change when a file icon was dragged on top of the R-dock icon? What should I be reading that I missed?

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David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA