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

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 06/11/2012 17:30, David Winsemius wrote:
>
> 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?

The MacOSX FAQ?  But that is not a very reliable document (less 
unreliable in 2.15.2 than in the recent past).

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html#Drag-_0026-drop

seems to say the directory is changed if a directory is dropped, but not 
say so for other types of files (and it may depend on the type of file).

Works as documented for directories, at least.


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