Question regarding best practice
Closed this issue · 1 comments
Hello, thank you very much for letting us use the here package.
I heard many good things about it so I tried to use it myself.
I think I like the here idea, but (shame) I am not sure I understand it correctly, or how it fits my current use case.
Say I have a tree like
my_root_dir/
|-- .here
|-- data
| |-- today
| |-- tomo
| `-- yesterday
|-- log
`-- my_script.rscript
`-- my_logic.r
I want to execute the my_script.rscript
(a she-bang script that leverage docopt or optparse) from anywhere and execute some logic in my_logic.r
that would leverage the here
package to do stuff in all sub-directories.
When I do /a/b/c/d/my_root_dir/my_script.rscript --someoption
the here()
logic is likely to place my in the /a
(it does when I try)
Right now I do (please do not kill me)
if(!interactive()) setwd(dirname(getopt:::get_Rscript_filename()))
library(here)
which seems very paradoxical...
Am I missing something ?
Is it considered edge case because of interactive()
?
Kind regards
I realized there is in ?here Details
This package is intended for interactive use only. Use rprojroot::has_file() or the other functions in the rprojroot package for more control, or for package development.