[R] file.choose()

[PIKAL Petr]

Hm, as I wrote, something is weird with your installation or machine.

> version
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platform       x86_64-w64-mingw32                                
arch           x86_64                                            
os             mingw32                                           
system         x86_64, mingw32                                   
status         Under development (unstable)                      
major          3                                                 
minor          7.0                                               
year           2019                                              
month          07                                                
day            21                                                
svn rev        76854                                             
language       R                                                 
version.string R Under development (unstable) (2019-07-21 r76854)
nickname       Unsuffered Consequences                           
>

I do not have other version available so mayby others could adivice what is
going on.

> getwd()
[1] "O:/Dokumenty/STAT/pracovni"
> setwd("D:/")
> file.choose()
Error in file.choose() : file choice cancelled

> dir()
 [1] "$RECYCLE.BIN"              "archiv"                   
 [3] "Cecko"                     "COzak.csv"                
 ...
13] "vypal"                     "Windows Burn Temp Files"  

> setwd("D:/archiv/")
> getwd()
[1] "D:/archiv"
> dir()
[1] "CC"                     "disketa z mereni barvy" "jine"

[4] "prezentace"             "TEMP"                   "zdroje"

[7] "zpravy"                
>

Cheers
Petr

> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help <r-help-bounces using r-project.org> On Behalf Of Ivan Calandra
> Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 9:06 AM
> To: r-help using r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] file.choose()
> 
> Thanks Petr for checking.
> 
> This unexpected behavior is reproducible on my machine, both with the RGui
> and RStudio, both with R3.6.2 and 3.6.3.
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 10 x64
> (build 18362) Matrix products: default
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United
> Kingdom.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5]
> LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252 attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
loaded via a
> namespace (and not attached):
> [1] compiler_3.6.3 tools_3.6.3
> 
> Couldn't be that it behaves differently when the working directory is the
root of
> the drive (D:/) vs. a folder on the drive (D:/Data)?
> 
> Ivan
> 
> --
> Dr. Ivan Calandra
> TraCEr, laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments MONREPOS
> Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution
> Schloss Monrepos
> 56567 Neuwied, Germany
> +49 (0) 2631 9772-243
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> 
> On 04/03/2020 7:55, PIKAL Petr wrote:
> > Hi Ivan
> >
> > I tried your examples and they behave as expected. Second one opens
> > D:/ and third should be setwd("D:/Data/") to open in Data folder.
> >
> >> sessionInfo()
> > R Under development (unstable) (2019-07-21 r76854)
> > Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 10
> > x64 (build 18363)
> >
> > So the problem is in your setting.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Petr
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: R-help <r-help-bounces using r-project.org> On Behalf Of Ivan
> >> Calandra
> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 4:48 PM
> >> To: r-help using r-project.org
> >> Subject: Re: [R] file.choose()
> >>
> >> That's what I was about to answer but tried first and it did not work.
> >> Now I tried more and noticed an unexpected behavior:
> >>
> >> getwd()
> >> [1] "C:/Users/.../Documents"
> >> file.choose() ## opens in "C:/Users/.../Documents" as expected
> >>
> >> setwd("D:/")
> >> getwd()
> >> [1] "D:/"
> >> file.choose() ## unexpectedly, opens in "C:/Users/.../Documents"
> >>
> >> setwd("D:/Data")
> >> getwd()
> >> [1] "D:/Data"
> >> file.choose() ## opens in "D:/Data" as expected
> >>
> >> Is that normal behavior?
> >>
> >> Ivan
> >>
> >> --
> >> Dr. Ivan Calandra
> >> TraCEr, laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments MONREPOS
> >> Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural
> >> Evolution Schloss Monrepos
> >> 56567 Neuwied, Germany
> >> +49 (0) 2631 9772-243
> >> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Calandra
> >>
> >> On 03/03/2020 16:36, David Winsemius wrote:
> >>> On 3/3/20 7:29 AM, Dennis Weygand wrote:
> >>>> How do I change the default directory that file.choose()
> >>>> (Windows-10) uses?
> >>>
> >>> ?setwd
> >>>
> >>>
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