Does R have a dir.choose function?
I can use file.choose like this as a kludge to get something like a
dir.choose, but a real dir.choose would be better:
cat("Select one of files in directory to process:\n")
filename <- gsub("\\\\", "/", file.choose())
basepath <- dirname(filename)
Windows provides a lower-level SHBrowseForFolder function to create such a
dialog (see links below). Do other platforms have similar functionality at
a lower level? (Hoping this would be an easy addition to R.)
SHBrowseForFolder Function
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/shbrowseforfolder.asp
Using the Shell API function SHBrowseForFolder()
http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,17008,00.html
efg
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Earl F. Glynn
Bioinformatics
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
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