Thank you Duncan. I tried that through RStudio 1.2.5019 with R 3.6.2 on Win10.
And what I did not mention is that I always cancelled the file.choose() actions, meaning I did not navigate to another folder. This does not quite fit what you said, but I might have misunderstood you, or RStudio overrides this behavior. I still find it strange that my second and third examples behave differently. Ivan -- Dr. Ivan Calandra TraCEr, laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution Schloss Monrepos 56567 Neuwied, Germany +49 (0) 2631 9772-243 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Calandra On 03/03/2020 17:26, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 03/03/2020 10:47 a.m., Ivan Calandra wrote: >> That's what I was about to answer but tried first and it did not work. >> Now I tried more and noticed an unexpected behavior: >> >> getwd() >> [1] "C:/Users/.../Documents" >> file.choose() ## opens in "C:/Users/.../Documents" as expected >> >> setwd("D:/") >> getwd() >> [1] "D:/" >> file.choose() ## unexpectedly, opens in "C:/Users/.../Documents" >> >> setwd("D:/Data") >> getwd() >> [1] "D:/Data" >> file.choose() ## opens in "D:/Data" as expected >> >> Is that normal behavior? >> > > If I recall correctly, the Windows GUI version opens the same > directory as the user last selected (i.e. the dialog box remembers the > last selection). This was by design, because Windows users often > start the GUI with the working directory being the R home directory, > and rarely use setwd() to change it. > > On Windows, I think you always get that version. On other platforms > it may depend on which front end you're using. > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
