toscutil (version 2.8.0)

getpd: Get Project Directory

Description

Find the project root directory by traversing the current working directory filepath upwards until a given set of files is found.

Usage

getpd(root.files = c(".git", "DESCRIPTION", "NAMESPACE"))

Value

getpd returns the absolute, normalized project root directory as string. The forward slash is used as path separator (independent of the OS).

Arguments

root.files

if any of these files is found in a parent folder, the path to that folder is returned

Examples

local({
     base_pkg_root_dir <- system.file(package = "base")
     base_pkg_R_dir <- file.path(base_pkg_root_dir, "R")
     owd <- setwd(base_pkg_R_dir); on.exit(setwd(owd))
     getpd()
})