here::i_am() not working with RStudio

[KleinWurm]

I faced this issue while playing around with here::i_am() and found #73 (comment) which is very related but does point the exact same problem.

Problem: here::i_am() returns default RStudio working directory (even when set to ~ in global options).

With here 1.0.1, RStudio 2024.04.0+735 and R version 4.3.2.

Example:

Structure of the folder:

 test
    .here
     test_script.R

And the content of test_script.R is:

here::i_am(path = "test_script.R")

Console output when test_script.R is executed from RStudio:

> here::i_am(path = "test_script.R")
Erreur : Could not find associated project in working directory or any parent directory.
- Path in project: test_script.R
- Current working directory: C:/Users/Username/Documents
Please open the project associated with this file and try again.

It shows a similar error if I try

here::i_am(path = ".here")

However, if I run the script from Visual Studio, I get the expected output:

> here::i_am(path = ".here") # also works with "test_script.R" instead of ".here"
here() starts at C:/Users/[path]/test

This suggests an incompatibility of here::i_am() with RStudio.

[krlmlr]

It works for me when I have opened a project in RStudio. What does getwd() show?

[KleinWurm]

@krlmlr sorry for my late reply, I tried again with RStudio RStudio 2024.04.1+748 " and R version 4.3.2 and it seems that the here::i_am() function now works in RStudio with the same behavior as in Visual Studio.

From RStudio, I get the same output as from Visual Studio:

> here::i_am(path = "test_script.R") 
here() starts at C:/Users/[path]/test

And getwd() returns C:/Users/[path]/test.