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

I would use a variant of @steamer25 's approach. The point is that I prefer to obtain the last sourced script even when my session was started through Rscript. The following snippet, when included on a file, will provided a variable thisScript containing the normalized path of the script. I confess the (ab)use of source'ing, so sometimes I invoke Rscript and the script provided in the --file argument sources another script that sources another one... Someday I will invest in making my messy code turns into a package.

thisScript <- (function() {
  lastScriptSourced <- tail(unlist(lapply(sys.frames(), function(env) env$ofile)), 1)

  if (is.null(lastScriptSourced)) {
    # No script sourced, checking invocation through Rscript
    cmdArgs <- commandArgs(trailingOnly = FALSE)
    needle <- "--file="
    match <- grep(needle, cmdArgs)
    if (length(match) > 0) {
      return(normalizePath(sub(needle, "", cmdArgs[match]), winslash=.Platform$file.sep, mustWork=TRUE))
    }
  } else {
    # 'source'd via R console
    return(normalizePath(lastScriptSourced, winslash=.Platform$file.sep, mustWork=TRUE))
  }
})()