On 29 Jan 2004 14:20:26 -0600, you wrote: >I always find it tedious to remember how to write file names in >Windows (there are rules about '\' and '/' characters) so I use the >file.choose() function, which brings up a chooser panel. Although you >haven't said what you want to do with the file, let's assume you are >going to source some R code in the file. Then you could use > >source(file.choose())
I've occasionally thought that "file = file.choose()" would be better than no default in a lot of functions that take filenames as arguments, e.g. file, the read* and write* functions, the bitmap device, Sweave, etc. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html