RStudio has a useful feature:
Session -> Set Working Directory -> To Source File Location
Is there a way to do this without using the drop down menus?
UPDATE:
maybe a better way of asking is:
is there a command to return the file path of the current r script?
I also found this thread, but the solutions didn't work for me. Not even Hadley's!
Rscript: Determine path of the executing script
You can use :
source("script.R", chdir = TRUE)
and change "script.R" by the name of the file you're interested in.
pathwd<-sub("/filename","",system("find -perm -g=w -type f -name 'filename'",intern=T)[1])
setwd(pathwd)
Make sure your file's name is unique.
This will work on most systems, it gets a little buggy with Macs.
dir <- dirname(parent.frame(2)$ofile)
setwd(dir)
Slight variation on @Ciro's answer above, for Mac users:
pathwd<-sub("/dummy.R","",system("find . -type f -name dummy.R",intern=T)[1])
setwd(pathwd)
Replace dummy.R
with your filename of course.