Where am I?
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Notes on the here package –
The here package is pretty simple ( only 3 functions), but I cannot remember how to use it to navigate folders, so this is my aide-memoire.
It might be useful for others too.
Here finds the root of your current folder / working directory.
If you use Projects in RStudio, that will usually be the root of your project folder.
If not, you can use set_here() to create a small file which will set the root location.
<span class="w">
</span><span class="c1"># where am I in my computer?</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="n">here</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="s2">"C:/Users/some/path/or/other"</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="c1">#</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="c1"># create a folder</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="n">dir.create</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">here</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"img"</span><span class="p">))</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="s2">"C:/Users/some/path/or/other/img"</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="n">dir.create</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">here</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"img"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s2">"png"</span><span class="p">))</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="s2">"C:/Users/some/path/or/other/img/png"</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="c1">#move to the outputs folder using setwd()</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="n">setwd</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">here</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"img"</span><span class="p">))</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="c1"># check this worked - get the current working directory with getwd()</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="n">getwd</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="s2">"C:/Users/some/path/or/other/img"</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="c1"># go back to the root of the project</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="n">setwd</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">here</span><span class="p">())</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="c1">#check you are back where you started</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="n">getwd</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="s2">"C:/Users/some/path/or/other"</span><span class="w">
</span>Now the next time I am like this:
¯_(ヅ)_/¯
I can just read this post, and hope no-one sees me reading my own blog.
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