This package helps accessing files relative to a project root to stop the working directory insanity.

Example

The source for this text is in the readme subdirectory:

basename(getwd())
#> [1] "readme"

How do we access the package root? In a robust fashion? Easily:

dir(rprojroot::find_root("DESCRIPTION"))
#>  [1] "_pkgdown.yml"     "API"              "appveyor.yml"    
#>  [4] "cran-comments.md" "DESCRIPTION"      "docs"            
#>  [7] "inst"             "Makefile"         "man"             
#> [10] "NAMESPACE"        "NEWS.md"          "R"               
#> [13] "readme"           "README.md"        "revdep"          
#> [16] "rprojroot.Rproj"  "tests"            "tic.R"           
#> [19] "vignettes"

Installation and further reading

Install from GitHub:

devtools::install_github("r-lib/rprojroot")

See the documentation for more detail.