Is RStudio required for here::i_am()?

[seed-of-apricot]

The below is what I get when I run the command. here::here() seems to work without the .Rproj file though.

> here::i_am("README.Rmd")
Error: Could not find associated project in working directory or any parent directory.
- Path in project: README.Rmd
- Current working directory: [path]
Please open the project associated with this file and try again.

> here::dr_here(show_reason = TRUE)
here() starts at [path].
- This directory contains a directory ".git"
- Initial working directory: [path]
- Current working directory: [path]

[arnyeinstein]

I had the same issue. Without the project file within R-Studio, here gives a message like above. This seems to be due to the "default directory" that is (automatically) set in the preferences.
If I open the file in visual code or emacs, the problem does not happen.

[KWigg4]

Any resolution to this? I'm dying with this issue and have been at it all day - I can't find anything in the rproj.user files or anything

[Anaphory]

When I ran into this issue just now, it took me a while to realize it was a typical stupid error: I had written
here::i_am("code/model-altas.r")
where the file was actually called model-atlas.r. So if you run into this error and cannot figure out the reason, check the spelling of your file name 🙈

[KleinWurm]

Same issue with here 1.0.1, RStudio 2024.04.0+735 and R version 4.3.2.
I tried to put a .here file in the same folder as the script I am running i_am() from without success.

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 suggest an incompatibility of here::i_am() and RStudio.

[krlmlr]

Thanks, @KleinWurm. Finally picking up this thread.

When you try 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.