[R-SIG-Mac] Retrieving Script Path in R.app

[Andrew Simmons]

getSrcDirectory is fine, but it only works when using 'source' with
'keep.source = TRUE', so it severely limits how I can run my scripts.

I've made a function / / package called this.path which returns the path of
the executing script, and right now it works from Rscript, when using
source, when running in RStudio, and when running from Rgui on Windows, but
not in R.app on macOS. Similar idea to getSrcDirectory, but you can run it
any way with or without keep.source


On Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 11:14 Ben Tupper <btupper using bigelow.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Would ?getSrcDirectory help?
>
> Ben
>
> On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 11:23 PM Andrew Simmons <akwsimmo using gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > I'd like to programmatically retrieve the path of the currently open
> script
> > in R.app.
> > Something like, if I had written:
> >
> > this.path()
> >
> > within a script that was open in R.app, and I ran that line with
> > Command+Enter,
> > I'd like it to return the path of the script.
> > It seems like this should be possible since Command+E runs the following:
> >
> > source("/absolute/path/to/file")
> >
> > so R.app knows the path of the open script, but I was unable to find
> > anything that would retrieve it on my own. First, I tried looking through
> > the environment 'as.environment("tools:RGUI")', but I didn't find
> anything
> > that looked like what I was looking for. Second, I tried comparing the
> > functions available in the base packages between Windows and macOS, and
> > while there are a few functions available for macOS that are not for
> > Windows, none of them looked like what I was looking for.
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated, thank you!
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >     Andrew Simmons
> >
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> Ben Tupper (he/him)
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