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
message(\         


        

Answer 1

You can wrap the r script in a bash script and retrieve the script's path as a bash variable like so:

#!/bin/bash
     # [environment variables can be set here]
     path_to_script=$(dirname $0)

     R --slave<