[ESS] setwd shortcut

[baptiste auguie]

It's an idea, but I often have several R files open in a given
session, and they do not necessarily share the same working directory.

Thanks though,

baptiste

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Gustavo Lacerda <guse at optimizelife.com> wrote:
> you can add to your .emacs:
> (dired "myproject")
>
> If you start R from there, it prompts you with "starting data directory?",
> with the default value being the directory of the current emacs buffer.
>
> (This has been tested successfully on Win XP and Kubuntu 10.04)
>
> Gustavo
>
> --
> Gustavo Lacerda
> http://www.optimizelife.com
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:38 AM, baptiste auguie <bapt4510 at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Dear ESS gurus,
>>
>> Quite often the first line of my R source code is to set the working
>> directory where the source file resides. On a Mac, to find the
>> filepath, I usually open a Terminal window and drag a folder from the
>> Finder. I then copy this path and paste it in the setwd("") command in
>> aquamacs. It's quite a convoluted process, a waste of time and focus.
>> I suddenly realized that it should be possible to do it within emacs
>> alone --- some magic C-c C-??? command that would return the filepath
>> of the buffer wrapped inside setwd("").
>>
>> Any tips?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> baptiste
>>
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