[R] R command to open a file browser on Windows and Mac?
Folks: Is there an easy function to open a finder window (on mac) or windows explorer window (on windows) given an input folder? A lot of times I want to be able to see via a file browser my working directory. Is there a good R hack to do this? --j [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] R command to open a file browser on Windows and Mac?
On 03/08/2015 11:19 AM, Jonathan Greenberg wrote: Folks: Is there an easy function to open a finder window (on mac) or windows explorer window (on windows) given an input folder? A lot of times I want to be able to see via a file browser my working directory. Is there a good R hack to do this? On Windows, shell.exec(dir) will open Explorer at that directory. (It'll do something else if dir isn't a directory name, or has spaces in it without quotes, so you need to be a little careful.) On OSX, system2(open, dir) should do the same. Duncan Murdoch __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] R command to open a file browser on Windows and Mac?
Set your path with setwd(“my_path”) and then use file.choose(). You could have gotten this information sooner with a simple online search. Mark R. Mark Sharp, Ph.D. Director of Primate Records Database Southwest National Primate Research Center Texas Biomedical Research Institute P.O. Box 760549 San Antonio, TX 78245-0549 Telephone: (210)258-9476 e-mail: msh...@txbiomed.org On Aug 3, 2015, at 10:19 AM, Jonathan Greenberg j...@illinois.edu wrote: Folks: Is there an easy function to open a finder window (on mac) or windows explorer window (on windows) given an input folder? A lot of times I want to be able to see via a file browser my working directory. Is there a good R hack to do this? --j [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] R command to open a file browser on Windows and Mac?
And for completeness, on linux: system(paste0(xdg-open ,getwd())) there's a function in a package somewhere that hides the system dependencies of opening things with the appropriate application, and if you pass a folder/directory to it I reckon it will open it in the Explorer/Finder/Nautilus//xfm//This Month's Linux File Browser// as appropriate. But I can't remember the name of the function or the package. Barry On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Jonathan Greenberg j...@illinois.edu wrote: Folks: Is there an easy function to open a finder window (on mac) or windows explorer window (on windows) given an input folder? A lot of times I want to be able to see via a file browser my working directory. Is there a good R hack to do this? --j [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
