[R] Genuine relative paths with R

[Peter Claussen]

If I’m following all this correctly, it seems your criticism is that R doesn’t provide a run-time function that is equivalent to a compile-time macro. You do realize that __FILE__ is not part of the C programming language - it’s a predefined variable recognized by the cpp - the C preprocessor program. Similarly, SAS_EXECFILENAME is a predefined variable that can be recognized by the SAS macro processor, but has no meaning in the SAS language itself.

So, to go back to your original post:
> 1.  Either create a variable "ScriptPath" in the first lines of each of my R scripts and run a batch (or shell, etc.) to replace every single occurrence of "ScriptPath <-" by "ScriptPath <- [Absolute path of the R script]" in all the R scripts located in the folder (and possibly subfolders) of the batch file.


This is what a macro processor does. Are you asking for a macro language in R?

Cheers

> On Oct 10, 2018, at 6:11 PM, Olivier GIVAUDAN <olivier_givaudan using hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It is not wrong to claim that R currently doesn't have a function returning the path of the R file where this same function was invoked.
> 
> 'getwd()' is indeed not equivalent to VBA 'Application.ThisWorkbook.Path' or C macro '__FILE__' or SAS %sysget(SAS_EXECFILENAME), etc.


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