Determine path of the executing script

Question

I have a script called foo.R that includes another script other.R, which is in the same directory:

#!/usr/bin/env Rscript
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Answer 1

My all in one! (--01/09/2019 updated to deal with RStudio Console)

#' current script file (in full path)
#' @description current script file (in full path)
#' @examples
#' works with Rscript, source() or in RStudio Run selection, RStudio Console
#' @export
ez.csf <- function() {
    # http://stackoverflow.com/a/32016824/2292993
    cmdArgs = commandArgs(trailingOnly = FALSE)
    needle = "--file="
    match = grep(needle, cmdArgs)
    if (length(match) > 0) {
        # Rscript via command line
        return(normalizePath(sub(needle, "", cmdArgs[match])))
    } else {
        ls_vars = ls(sys.frames()[[1]])
        if ("fileName" %in% ls_vars) {
            # Source'd via RStudio
            return(normalizePath(sys.frames()[[1]]$fileName))
        } else {
            if (!is.null(sys.frames()[[1]]$ofile)) {
            # Source'd via R console
            return(normalizePath(sys.frames()[[1]]$ofile))
            } else {
                # RStudio Run Selection
                # http://stackoverflow.com/a/35842176/2292993
                pth = rstudioapi::getActiveDocumentContext()$path
                if (pth!='') {
                    return(normalizePath(pth))
                } else {
                    # RStudio Console
                    tryCatch({
                            pth = rstudioapi::getSourceEditorContext()$path
                            pth = normalizePath(pth)
                        }, error = function(e) {
                            # normalizePath('') issues warning/error
                            pth = ''
                        }
                    )
                    return(pth)
                }
            }
        }
    }
}