[ESS] Updating Emacs working directory after issuing an R setwd()

[Charles C. Berry]

On Fri, 22 May 2009, Blanchette, Marco wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> Is there a way to reset the emacs working directory of the ESS buffer after using setwd() in an R session?

M-x cd RET <newdir> RET

> Could this be automated following a setwd() call?

If you mean _immediately_ after the setwd() command, you can do something 
like
 	M-x ess-execute RET cat(.Last.value,sep='') RET

kill it, return to the process buffer, then

 	M-x cd RET C-y RET

You can turn that into a macro and assign it to a key in your .emacs

HTH,

Chuck

>
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>
> Marco
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