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Get Dropbox Folder
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| get.dropbox.folder <- function() { | |
| if (!require(RCurl)) stop ("You need to install RCurl package.") | |
| if (Sys.info()["sysname"]!="Windows") stop("Currently, 'get.dropbox.folder' works for Windows only. Sorry.") | |
| db.file <- paste(Sys.getenv('APPDATA'), '\\Dropbox\\host.db', sep='') | |
| base64coded <- readLines(db.file, warn=FALSE)[2] | |
| base64(base64coded, encode=FALSE) | |
| } |
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what are the implementations of this function? I am using Rstudio, and to customize the startup I use the .Rprofile to load the packages I need frequently, but given that a dropbox would help to synchronize the package libraries, which would be a pain to keep them in parity with a different machine at work e.g. (esp. when a proxy is out there!). So my thought is to keep a folder for all the packages in a dropbox folder and to make the .Rprofile to source from that folder in the dropbox cloud each time using such a function but am I thinking right, or missing something? but I got double "" in the output for that function, shouldn't be one backslash for the destination? "C:\Users\Dropbox" instead of "C:\Users<NAME>\Dropbox"?