I haven't tested it on Windows, but the `Tk` package has `GetOpenFile()`
that should allow for a dialog to navigate the file system. Something like
`include(GetOpenFile())` should work.
On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 7:40:10 AM UTC-4, Pigskin Ablanket wrote:
>
> Looks like his comment got deleted. Will try it today and follow up.
> Thanks again for all the help
>
> On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 10:44:19 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote:
>>
>> As Steven mentioned, starting the program from the directory where the
>> files reside allows you to include the file using its filename without the
>> full path. If that is easy for you, it is probably best. An alternative
>> is to do it with code. Let me know if you need that.
>>
>> On Monday, August 22, 2016 at 5:06:33 PM UTC-4, Pigskin Ablanket wrote:
>>>
>>> No problem. If you get a chance - great
>>>
>>> On Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 12:13:40 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote:
>>>>
>>>> There is a way -- after the weekend.
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 8:04:58 PM UTC-4, Pigskin Ablanket wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I probably dont want to change the input file names more than once
>>>>> although I would be updating its data daily - and I think I know how to
>>>>> do
>>>>> that (change the name of the file itself as well as in the code). The
>>>>> output file though - I might want to change more regularly,
>>>>>
>>>>> Also - when I ran it - a few things were deprecated - does that just
>>>>> mean outdated? Does updating with the new term change the file - or just
>>>>> the underlying solving? Not sure if you can know that or not.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was just looking for a way yo shortcut that long as heck include
>>>>> string I have now. Cause I will run that daily and lord knows I mistyped
>>>>> it like 10 times.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 7:28:40 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You are most welcome.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What do you want to change, if anything, from day to day, for
>>>>>> example: one or both input file names, the output file name, reuse
>>>>>> some/all file names while changing the data inside?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 7:01:54 PM UTC-4, Pigskin Ablanket
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> IT Works!!!!!!!! Thank you so much. Found my error in the code.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am curious if there is a way to shortcut the command as I would
>>>>>>> want to run this daily to test and it seems like a lot to type
>>>>>>> correctly.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks for the time today
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 6:26:34 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Sarnoff
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Look correct?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I will answer that after you try running it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 6:19:33 PM UTC-4, Pigskin Ablanket
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks for providing me so much help today - much appreciated.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I copied the properties right here for folder Julia which is
>>>>>>>>> where the code file is located:
>>>>>>>>> C:\Users\JHerron\Documents\Documents\Personal\DFS\NHL
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Interesting that it didnt bring it over as My_Documents.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Based on this, I would believe the command needs to be:
>>>>>>>>> include("C:\\Users\\JHerron\\Documents\\Documents\\
>>>>>>>>> Personal\\DFS\\NHL\\Julia\\code_for_Github.jl")
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Look correct?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I made the changes to the paths in the file as well....
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "C:\\Users\\JHerron\\Documents\\Documents\\Personal\\DFS\\NHL\\Julia\\example_skaters.csv"
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 6:01:50 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Sarnoff
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> two things,
>>>>>>>>>> you wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> include("C:\\Users\\JHerron\\My_Documents\\My_Documents/Personal\\DFS/NHL\\Julia/code_for_Github.jl")
>>>>>>>>>> and I wonder, do you mean !
>>>>>>>>>> !
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> include("C:\\Users\\JHerron\\My_Documents\\My_Documents_Personal\\DFS\\NHL\\Julia\\code_for_Github.jl")
>>>>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> include("C:\\Users\\JHerron\\My_Documents\\My_Documents_Personal\\DFS_NHL\\Julia\\code_for_Github.jl")
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> when you go to the directory where you see the file:
>>>>>>>>>> code_for_Github.jl and you put the mouse on that file and
>>>>>>>>>> right-click to
>>>>>>>>>> see the popup menu and select the last thing "properties" there is
>>>>>>>>>> something that says Location,if does it not exactly match:
>>>>>>>>>> C:/Users/JHerron/My_Documents/My_Documents/Personal/DFS/NHL/Julia
>>>>>>>>>> then you have miscopied it, if it looks like this
>>>>>>>>>> C:/Users/JHerron/My_Documents/My_Documents_Personal/DFS_NHL/Julia
>>>>>>>>>> then you should be using (and fix the paths in the
>>>>>>>>>> code_for_Github.jl file, too)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> include("C:\\Users\\JHerron\\My_Documents\\My_Documents_Personal\\DFS_NHL\\Julia\\code_for_Github.jl")
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 5:12:41 PM UTC-4, Pigskin Ablanket
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Sadly, I get the following response from
>>>>>>>>>>> include("C:\\Users\\JHerron\\My_Documents\\My_Documents/Personal\\DFS/NHL\\Julia/code_for_Github.jl")
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> *ERROR: could not copen file
>>>>>>>>>>> C:\Users\JHerron\My_Documents\My_Documents\Personal\DFS\NHL\Julia\code_for_github.jl*
>>>>>>>>>>> *in include at boot.jl:261*
>>>>>>>>>>> *in include_from_node1 at loading.jl:320*
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 4:49:16 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Sarnoff
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> the "i" in include should be lower case
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Pigskin Ablanket <
>>>>>>>>>>>> pigskin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I tried Include("C:Users\\JHerron\\My_Documents\\My_Documents/
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Personal\\DFS/NHL\\Julia/code_for_Github.jl")
>>>>>>>>>>>>> (I hope that was what you meant to do).
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I got: *ERROR: UndefVarError: Include not defined*
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 1:58:30 PM UTC-4, Steven G.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Johnson wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 1:47:59 PM UTC-4, Pigskin
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ablanket wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sorry if Im not following - I tried:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Include("C:\Users\JHerron\My_Documents\My_Documents/
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Personal\DFS/NHL\Julia/code_for_Github.jl") aas shown below
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and got *ERROR: syntax: invalid escape sequence*
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Backslashes have to be escsped in strings, like in many
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> computer languages: change \ to \\ in the string.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> However, usually it is better to just run Julia from within
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the path that you want rather than having to type absolute paths
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all of the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> time in the REPL.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (In the long run, you usually do large-scale code development
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> in a module in the standard module search path, so you can just
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> type "using
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Foo".)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (If you call include("foo.jl") from another file bar.jl, the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> path of foo.jl is automatically relative to the path of bar.jl,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> so again
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you neither need nor want absolute paths.)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> For interactive code development where I need more than a few
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> lines of code, I usually use a Jupyter notebook (google
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "IJulia").
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
