https://github.com/r-lib/here

A simpler way to find your files
https://github.com/r-lib/here

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A simpler way to find your files

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/r-lib/here
• Owner: r-lib
• License: other
• Created: 2016-07-19T14:47:19.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-11-09T05:19:47.000Z (3 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-09T06:20:16.776Z (3 days ago)
• Topics: project, r
• Language: R
• Homepage: https://here.r-lib.org/
• Size: 696 KB
• Stars: 413
• Watchers: 9
• Forks: 44
• Open Issues: 26
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd
  • Changelog: NEWS.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Code of conduct: .github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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README

        
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output: downlit::readme_document

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```{r, include = FALSE}

knitr::opts_chunk$set(

  collapse = TRUE,

  comment = "#>",

  fig.path = "README-"

)

pkgload::load_all()

```

# here

[![Lifecycle: stable](https://img.shields.io/badge/lifecycle-stable-brightgreen.svg)](https://www.tidyverse.org/lifecycle/#stable)

[![rcc](https://github.com/r-lib/here/workflows/rcc/badge.svg)](https://github.com/r-lib/here/actions)

[![CRAN status](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/here)](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=here)

[![Codecov test coverage](https://codecov.io/gh/r-lib/here/branch/main/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/r-lib/here?branch=main)

The goal of the here package is to enable easy file referencing in [project-oriented workflows](https://rstats.wtf/projects.html).

In contrast to using `setwd()`, which is fragile and dependent on the way you organize your files, here uses the top-level directory of a project to easily build paths to files.

## Installation

Install the released version of here from CRAN:

```{r, eval = FALSE}

install.packages("here")

```

## Usage

The here package creates paths relative to the top-level directory. The package displays the top-level of the current project on load or any time you call `here()`:

```{r}

here::i_am("README.Rmd")

here()

```

You can build a path relative to the top-level directory in order to read or write a file:

```{r}

here("inst", "demo-project", "data", "penguins.csv")

readr::write_csv(palmerpenguins::penguins, here("inst", "demo-project", "data", "penguins.csv"))

```

These relative paths work regardless of where the associated source file lives inside your project, like analysis projects with data and reports in different subdirectories.

See the included [demo project](https://github.com/r-lib/here/tree/main/inst/demo-project) for an example.

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/allisonhorst/stats-illustrations/master/rstats-artwork/here.png)

*Illustration by [Allison Horst](https://github.com/allisonhorst)*

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## Code of Conduct

Please note that the here project is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](https://here.r-lib.org/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.html). By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.