On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Marcin Gomulka <mrgo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> AFAIK a script run through source() does not have any legit way to learn
> about it's own location.
>
> I need this to make sure that the script will find its datafiles after I
> move the whole directory. (The datafiles are in the same directory.)
>
> Here is a hack I invented to work around it:
>
> print(getwd())
> source_pathname = get("ofile",envir = parent.frame())
> source_dirname = dirname(source_pathname )
> setwd(source_dirname)
> print(getwd())
>
This variation is nearly the same:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-May/238804.html
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