set working directory automatically about r-box

[hafen]

This is something I've wanted as well. I have a fork that does something like this. It sets the working directory to the project directory every time you send a command.

https://github.com/hafen/R-Box

You can see the relevant changes in rbox/send_text.py at the bottom of here:

master...hafen:master

The way you activate it is to set a project variable "R_box_setwd" to true. So your x.sublime-project file might look something like this:

{
    "folders":
    [
        {
            "follow_symlinks": true,
            "path": "."
        }
    ],
  "settings":
  {
     "R_box_setwd": true
  }
}

This is pretty unobtrusive but I haven't gotten around to doing a PR for it.

[rsaporta]

Not sure if I follow, but is what you are looking for different than CMD+\ ?

[smartinsightsfromdata]

First create a project in Sublime Text in a folder foo.
Open a file, as R extended (even without saving the file).

In REPL R, thanks to the setting that I mentioned above, by default the current working directory (cdw) is set to the level of the folder foo.

It makes Sublime Text work with projects in the same way as Studio does.
The setting of wd is totally transparent to the user and I can refer to any subfolder with indirect addressing, e.g. ./data/somefile.csv without ever having to use setwd("a/very/long/directory/name"), which is not portable etc.

@hafen code (that I confess I haven't tried yet but is on my todo list!) should be doing something similar for R terminal (i.e. when we send the code to the R UI): automagically the wd is set to the folder level.

I have never used CMD+\ but it seems to be trying to save a file?

[dschneiderch]

@smartinsightsfromdata
where did you add that pref? and at what point does it change directory? when ou open a project?
I modified my R-box user setting to:
{
"prog": "SublimeREPL",
"cwd": "$folder",
}
i'm not getting anything different.

The problem with CMD+\ is it uses the source files directory. I usually keep my project-template file in projectdir, in the below structure. in fact, is there a way to turn it off because I hit \ accidentally all the time.
projectdir/
src/
data/

[randy3k]

Sending code feature is exported to SendREPL.
Please open an issue there at your will.