Tom, You can define your working directory by using:
setwd("C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\My Documents\qpaper7\R Project Started 19 Dec 05") check that your file is there: list.files() and then use: source("myFile.txt") the machine should load "myFile" You can go to another directory: setwd("anotherdir") and repeat the procedure. Or even better if you define a number of directories in an external file: dir1 <- c(C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\My Documents\qpaper7\") dir2 <- c(C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\My Documents\") and after loading the file at the beginning of the sesion you can use: setwd("dir1") etc. Is it of any help to you? Cheers, Augusto -------------------------------------------- Augusto Sanabria. MSc, PhD. Mathematical Modeller Risk Research Group Geospatial & Earth Monitoring Division Geoscience Australia (www.ga.gov.au) Cnr. Jerrabomberra Av. & Hindmarsh Dr. Symonston ACT 2609 Ph. (02) 6249-9155 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas L Jones Sent: Wednesday, 22 February 2006 4:31 PM To: R-project help Subject: [R] How do I tell it which directory to use? >From Tom: In R 2.2.0 under Windows, I want to be able to give it a filename such as "myFile.txt" without the quotes. But actually I mean: C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\My Documents\qpaper7\R Project Started 19 Dec 05\myFile.txt If I were to repeat this each time, my computer would get all bored and cranky and start to drop bits (only a joke, of course). I think I want to set the Home directory or the working directory or some directory or other to the above directory. I may or may not want to set some environmental variables. R 2.2.0; working directly from the console and copying and pasting code which I want to test into the console. Windows XP Home Edition. Administrator privileges are enabled. A curve ball: There are two accounts, "Tom" and "Jones;" the data are stored under "Tom," whereas the computation is being done under the "Jones" account. I won't bore you with the details of why I am doing this. I was able to call Sys.getenv ("R_USER") and get the home directory. I am a newbie to R and not familiar with the terminology. Tom Thomas L. Jones, Ph.D., Computer Science ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html