I have been trying to get the script name of an R script in R console. For example, I have the name of the R script “example.R”. I want to have this name as an assigned variable. I would like to do this without using basename() because I would like to define the working directory with the help of the name of the script as a variable.
I tried scriptName package and current_filename() function but it somehow gives me NULL. I expected to have the script name but I couldn’t have it. Does anyone have any idea how to do this?
The answer is provided in @Roland’s link. However, to make it specific, the code is ‘rstudioapi::getSourceEditorContext()$path’ which will provide the path of the script. After that, ‘basename’ could be used to extract the script name. All of these operations are done interactively, rather than using ‘source()’ in RStudio.