In the General R Options of RStudio, in the option Default working directory (when not in a project):, previous to set for the first time a specific directory appears this symbol ~ that means No directory or Global default working directory, like here:
My problem is that I set the directory to My documents folder, and I can't set it back to ~ because the Browsebutton doesn't allow it. Do you know how can I set it back to ~?
I would like to do that because in my new scripts I'm changing always this directory to other paths with the setwd() function. But when I close RStudio all the objects from my workspace are saved in this new directory set with setwd(), then I have to save manually every time my workspace to My documents directory. Therefore, I prefer to change it to Global default working directory ~, and I can't find how to do this.
Thanks in advance
For PC, go to your RStudio user-settings file location (Note you may have to show hidden folders in your folder options settings):
C:\Users[your name]\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\monitored\user-settings
Edit your RStudio with Notepad, change or delete the directory.
Here is what you probably have:
initialWorkingDirectory="C:/Users/[your name]/Documents"
Change to:
initialWorkingDirectory="~"
Hope that helps.
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I've been trying for literally hours to set a global alias that I can use when I open Git bash on my Windows machine to cd to a specific location.
I want to be able to simply type the alias to get to the location. I've tried every which way. The attempt that got me closest was based on this: https://superuser.com/questions/602872/how-do-i-modify-my-git-bash-profile-in-windows
...but it seems that to get it to work upon relaunching of bash, I have to use source .bashrc, which I don't want to do. Help appreciated.
I just jury rigged a solution with a simple shell script that acts like a global alias. If someone has a better solution, please do tell.
Opened text editor and wrote the following two lines:
#!/bin/bash
cd blah/blep/directory_of_choice
Saved it as a text file with a descriptive name (like dirjump) somewhere and copied it.
In file explorer, navigated to the bin folder in the MinGW64 installation, e.g. "C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin"
Pasted the file into this bin folder.
While viewing the contents of the bin folder referenced above in Windows file explorer, from the menu bar selected "view > options", which opened the "folder options" dialog. Selected the "view" tab here and unchecked "Hide extensions for known file types" and clicked ok.
Deleted the ".txt" extension from the file copied into the bin folder.
To call this shell script that has the same result as a global alias, typed the following in Git bash:
. dirjump (the space between the dot and the dirjump MUST be included)
Using z in zsh, I want to change the default location of where the history is kept.
By default, when your source the shell script
source ~/z/z.sh
It will make a file with the directories you visit in a .z/ directory. While this is fine for most cases, I want to change this to another directory. The README.md does state that you can set some variables for this in my .zshrc
Optionally:
Set $_Z_DATA to change the datafile (default $HOME/.z).
So I added this
export $_Z_DATA="$HOME/.z-history"
But for some reason, I get a warning that my shell can't find the directory.
Any idea why this is happening? Any help is appreciated.
You are having a typo, or haven't yet get how the bash variable works.
You do not need to use $ when declaring a variable. Only when you want to access it.
So just adapt you config with:
export _Z_DATA="$HOME/.z-history"
voilà :) it should works
I am using Oracle 11g. When I open a new SQL file writing the command
ed filename.sql
A new file is created in my bin folder with the name as filename but, I want them to be in separate folders for my convenience. I am developing 3 application(well for my practice only). I want them to store in different folders for each project. I tried all of the following none of them worked please tell me how can I save the files into specific folders.
ed erp/logindetails.sql
ed 'erp/logindetails.sql'
ed "erp/logindetails.sql"
ed 'erp\logindetails.sql'
ed erp\logindetails.sql
These commands except where I used "" worked and opened the default text editor with the name afiedt.buf which I am getting when I enter only edit. No files are created with any of the above command.
You're giving EDIT a relative path to the file; since your current working directory seems to be the bin directory that the SQL*Plus directory is in (is this Windows, and are you running a shortcut that sets the working directory, maybe?) it will try to create a file like %ORACLE_HOME%\bin\erp\logindetails.sql, and you're unlikely to have created an erp directory there. Giving the full path to the directory will work:
edit c:\users\dibya\projects\erp\logindetails.sql
for example.
As noted in the documentation, EDIT will search for existing files, but that involves setting an environment variable - which you'd have to change as you move between the projects. You might find it easier to edit the files in the OS and just run them from SQL*Plus.
You might also be able to use separate shortcuts to launch SQL*Plus for each project, each setting the 'start in' directory to a project-specific location - then just edit logindetails.sql would be looking in the right place by default. Or, from a command prompt cd into the relevant project-specific directory and launch SQL*Plus from there, which is effectively what a shortcut would do.
I'm using MacVim with the ctrlp plug in for a file finder. It's supposed to load files in just the current directory to the file buffer. For example, I used to be able to cd into a directory, and then type mvim at the command line. That would load all the files in the current directory and only that directory, which was awesome for, say, a Rails project. Then my file finds would only search in that directory.
Recently, though, when I type mvim in a certain directory, the vim file buffer is all the files on my computer, rather than in the current directory, so finding the exact index.html.haml I need is impossible.
The weird thing is that when I say mvim ., it only tells me the files and folders in the current directory, which I would expect. And when I type :pwd, it tells me that the path I'm in is the current directory (a Rails project). But when I type ,t to find a file, it's all the files on my computer.
Here is a screenshot. I've cded into a Rails project and have typed ,t to bring up the file navigator using the ctrlp plugin, and I typed config.rb which should only bring up that directory's config.rb file, but instead, it's all the config.rb's on my system!
I went to the GitHub page for ctrlp to file an issue and came across this issue. The suggested fix for an issue was to turn off starting in the current directory as a default behavior, so I just explicitly added the default to ~/.vimrc, which fixed it:
let g:ctrlp_working_path_mode = 0
EDIT
While adding that line to my ~/.vimrc did indeed fix the problem, it didn't address the root cause of this issue. The creator of the ctrlp suggested that I had created a git repository in my home folder (which ctrlp was looking in), which I somehow had. So another, more root fix for this issue was to just remove the .git directory in my home folder:
$ rm -r ~/.git
Try this:
let g:ctrlp_cmd = 'CtrlP .'
I used addpath(pwd) to get my .m files working in my projects directory. When I close the window and start a new window, the path I just added is gone. But the files still run.
Is it in my path or not? How do I see the directories I have added to my path?
Also, . is the first entry I see from path. Does that mean I don't need to add any directories because it will always search the current directory first?
Thanks.
Basically, yes.
You can add a directory to the search path using addpath(), but as you know, it only exists for the current session and is reset when you restart Octave. If you want a path to survive between sessions, add it to your octaverc, a script file that gets run whenever a new session gets started. Example path to octaverc file is:
C:\Octave\3.2.4_gcc-4.4.0\share\octave\site\m\startup
Since . is in your path by default, Octave will search your current directory for any function files that it needs. Using addpath(pwd) is somewhat useless if you're just going to stay in the same directory. However, there are some cases where it'd be useful, if for example you have a directory that contains your functions, and another one that has the data that you're working on: you could start in the functions directory, do addpath(pwd), and then cd to the data directory while still being able to use your functions.
You can create batch file, which will start Octave with your directory path. Please see example below:
octave-3.6.4.exe -p "C:\MyOctaveDiretory"
-p means addpath()
addpath(pwd); savepath();
Done.
I think there is a bug in Octave (I use version 4.0.3 on Windows). When I create a new file in current path, this can't be called by Octave ("error: 'foo' undefined near line 1 column 1"). If I restart Octave, it works. This addpath(pwd) trick helps me a lot (before I unsuccessfully tried rehash() and cd elsewhere and back again).
If you had the same problem, the reason for the symptom might be:
Start Octave.
Create newfile.m.
Call newfile - fails since Octave did not register its existence.
addpath(pwd) - causes Octave to register it.
Close Octave
Start Octave - now pwd is gone from path, but newfile.m is registered at startup.
call newfile - works
I faced a similar problem in adding path where the path was added by using addpath command directly in Octave GUI (Command Window). The path added was being shown in console window but none of the functions worked.
The problem was solved by changing the path directory from Windows directory to some other direction where OS is not installed.