Enabling selectFile() and selectDirectory() outside RStudio
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
Research direction
Start by reading the existing selectFile() and selectDirectory() entry points and comparing their behavior with utils::choose.files(), utils::choose.dir(), and base::file.choose(). Clarify the intended package and cross-platform behavior, including multiple-file selection; done means the requested functions work outside RStudio with documented behavior.
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Description
Hello, I would like to ask if the functions selectFile() and selectDirectory() could be made available in base R.
You have done a wonderful job with these functions and I think they could be more beneficial to the R community if they were available in a more generic package like R.utils without the need to have RStudio running.
The functions utils::choose.files and utils::choose.dir act similar to yours, but they are only supported in Windows. The only similar cross-platform function in base R seems to be base::file.choose() which does not allow to select directories and is less customisable than your function.
Also, a tweak that you could do is allow to select multiple files in selectFile().
Thanks for your time (and great work)!
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