Thanks! That sorts it! I’ll tell people to put files on their desktops, and that should suffice.
F -- Federico Calboli Erityisasiantuntija, tutkimusrahoitus Palveluryhmät Luonnonvarakeskus Dear Federico If they click on File in the top left hand corner and then Change dir in the drop-down menu if opens a file explorer type window where they can click on directories (folders in MS-speak) in the usual way. That does not get round the problem that they need to know where they put the file in the first place of course but it might help some of them. Michael On 08/12/2025 11:22, Calboli Federico (LUKE) wrote: > Hello, > > I need to provide the simplest possible indication to R users with either > windows or macos machines on how to change working directory. Using setwd() > will not work because I cannot trust them to even understand the concept of > working directory. > > On macos it is possible to have a GUI menu (the standard R GUI) that would > allow the users to "click their way to where their data files are", is there > such facility for the windows R GUI (the out-of-the-box one)? I have no > access to windows machines, so I cannot check, but I am sure some people will > use a windows laptop. > > F > > > -- > > Federico Calboli > > Erityisasiantuntija, tutkimusrahoitus > > Palveluryhm�t > > Luonnonvarakeskus > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> > PLEASE do read the posting guide > https://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html<https://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Michael Dewey [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
