owd: Open Working Directory
In owd: Open Working Directory

Description Usage Arguments Value Note Author(s) See Also Examples

View source: R/owd.R

owd opens the current working directory (or a given directory path) in your computer's file manager.

1	owd(dir = '.')

dir

A character string indicating a directory path. Defaults to '.', indicating the current working directory.

owd does not return any value in R. However, it will return an error if a directory path is passed to it that does not exist, or that R does not have sufficient privledges to access.

Tilde expansion (see path.expand) is performed on directory paths.

Benjamin G. Feakins, benjamin.feakins@ndph.ox.ac.uk

getwd for the path of the current working directory.

list.files for the contents of a directory.

if (interactive()) {
## Open current working directory
owd()

## Open a directory using a relative path
owd('/usr/bin')

## Making use of tilde expansion to open the home directory
owd('~')
}