owd: Open Working Directory

Description

R package to open the current working directory (or a given directory path) in your computer’s file manager.

Compatibility

The package may be installed on any version of R since 2.13.0, (coinciding with the migration of the normalizePath() function from the utils package to the base package). Technically, for versions 2.13.0 > R ≥ 2.1.0 the package may still be installed if the end user was to: checkout the Git repository, remove the line containing “Depends: R (>= 2.13)” from the DESCRIPTION file, add a line to the DESCRIPTION file containing “Imports: utils”, and add a line to the NAMESPACE file containing “importsFrom(utils, normalizePath)”.

Installation

You can install a stable version of the package from CRAN with:

install.packages("owd")

Alternatively, you can install the latest development version from GitHub with:

if (!{'remotes' %in% installed.packages()}) install.packages('remotes')
remotes::install_github('Feakster/owd')

Examples

Some simple use cases:

## Load package namespace
library(owd)

## Open current working directory
owd()

## Open a directory ('foo') using a relative path
owd('foo') # or...
owd('./foo')

## Making use of tilde expansion
owd('~/foo')

Known issues

See Issues on the owd GitHub repository.