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Reputation: 2022

Source R scripts in different folders

I have a question about sourcing R scripts in different folders. Suppose I created a new project in R Studio. The project folder contains several folders (data, different folders containing the scripots, latex folder, plot folder etc). Is there a way to automatically source all R scripts within this project folder? Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2855

Answers (1)

Rich Scriven
Rich Scriven

Reputation: 99371

I use this function for sourcing all R files in a specific folder. 

## finds all .R and .r files within a folder and sources them
sourceFolder <- function(folder, recursive = FALSE, ...) 
{ 
    files <- list.files(folder, pattern = "[.][rR]$", 
                        full.names = TRUE, recursive = recursive)
    if (!length(files))
        stop(simpleError(sprintf('No R files in folder "%s"', folder)))
    src <- invisible(lapply(files, source, ...))
    message(sprintf('%s files sourced from folder "%s"', length(src), folder))
}

So, if I have a folder on my desktop named Rfiles I can source all the files with a .r or .R extension with the call

sourceFolder("./Desktop/Rfiles")
# 6 files sourced from folder "./Desktop/Rfiles"

You could use the recursive argument to source all the R files in the subdirectories

sourceFolder("yourFolder", recursive = TRUE)

Upvotes: 2

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