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

[Ken Knoblauch]

I did try it with the box checked and unchecked (restarting each time so
that it took effect) with no difference in behavior.  Thanks.


Quoting David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>:

>
> On Nov 6, 2012, at 9:30 AM, 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?
>
> This may relate to the fact that I have never changed the default   
> settings in my Preferences:
>
>



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