Thanks Ian, not too late at all. I need to do some testing but your
idea seems like it should work. Thanks, Bryan
On May 23, 2011, at 12:44 PM, Ian Gow wrote:
This might be a little late, but one option for this issue might be
to add
a line like
Sys.setenv("DROPBOX_PATH" = "/Users/PersonA/Dropbox/")
to Person A's .Rprofile (on my Mac, this is in my home directory)
and the
equivalent (mutatis mutandis) to Person B's .Rprofile and then use
Sys.getenv("DROPBOX_PATH")
to access the path. It seems from looking at forums for Dropbox that
there
is no easily accessed environment variable that Dropbox sets for the
path
to the Dropbox folder.
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Hi Patrick, here is the set up:
Everyone is already sharing all the files and has full access. We
have an Rnw file which generates a report and uses a csv file in a
"nearby" directory. Dropbox keeps it all sync'd. But, if Person A is
working on the file on their computer the path to the data would be
(Mac OSX) /Users/PersonA/Dropbox/Project/data.csv However, to Person
B the path would be /Users/PersonB/Dropbox/data.csv I'm looking for a
way to keep the path to data.csv universal and independent of who is
actually using the file. That's why I was looking at the "shareable
link" feature on Dropbox.
I guess I see two solutions (partially answering my own question now).
1. Keep the data file in the same directory as the report and I don't
think there would be any problems.
2. In the Rnw file, use a relative path. I know you can do this for
instance when you specify where the graphics go. I suppose the same
approach would allow me to specify the path as going up one level and
then down into a different directory. As long as I bury these folders
deep enough that I don't have to use a relative path that ever hits
the "PersonX" level I suppose it will work.
I'll try it out. Further suggestions welcome. Thanks, Bryan
On May 20, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Patrick Connolly wrote:
On Fri, 20-May-2011 at 02:05PM -0400, Bryan Hanson wrote:
Hello Kindred R Spirits...
I'm trying to get a file (csv) from Dropbox using their shareable
link
concept. They issue a short URL that goes to a web page where you
see a
button that says "Download File". They don't really give you the
URL of
the file itself, just this page. Is there a way to coax R into
getting
such a file? I don't even really want the file per se, I just
want a
Dropbox allows you to share folders with other Dropbox users who
would
then have access to your file/s as a file/s on their individual
computers. It would mean that any collaborator would have to have a
Dropbox account and they'd all end up downloading the file. If there
aren't too many for you to individually invite and it's not excessive
bandwidth for them to download that many copies of the file, it would
be easily done. (You might even get yourself some more diskspace on
Dropbox by inviting other users.)
You'd have to think about whose version has what effect on others
but
without knowing your objectives, it's impossible for me to say what's
the best approach.
HTH
path to the file so I can reference it for Sweave purposes and
read
the
contents into an object. Seems like a job for RCurl but I have
little
experience and this seems like an odd case anyway.
By the way, I want to do this as a way to have several people on
different computers run a .Rnw file that needs to access common
data set
w/o changing the path to the file each time a different person
opens the
file and works on it. Perhaps there is another way of doing this.
Thanks for any suggestions. Bryan
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DePauw University
Greencastle IN 46135 USA
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