目的は、for ループ内で現在の作業ディレクトリを変更し、ファイルの検索など、他の作業を行うことです。パスはジェネリック変数に格納されます。このために実行しているRコードは次のとおりです。
require("foreach")
# The following lines are generated by an external tool and stored in filePath.info
# Loaded via source("filePaths.info")
result1 <- '/home/user/folder1'
result2 <- '/home/user/folder2'
result3 <- '/home/user/folder3'
number_results <- 3
# So I know that I have all in all 3 folders with results by number_results
# and that the variable name that contains the path to the results is generic:
# string "result" plus 1:number_results.
# Now I want to switch to each result path and do some computation within each folder
start_dir <- getwd()
print(paste0("start_dir: ",start_dir))
# For every result folder switch into the directory of the folder
foreach(i=1:number_results) %do% {
# for (i in 1:number_results){ leads to the same output
# Assign path in variable, not the variable name as string: current_variable <- result1 (not string "result1")
current_variable <- eval(parse(text = paste0("result", i)))
print(paste0(current_variable, " in interation_", i))
# Set working directory to string in variable current_variable
current_dir <- setwd(current_variable)
print(paste0("current_dir: ",current_dir))
# DO SOME OTHER STUFF WITH FILES IN THE CURRENT FOLDER
}
# Switch back into original directory
current_dir <- setwd(start_dir)
print(paste0("end_dir: ",current_dir))
出力は次のとおりです...
[1] "start_dir: /home/user"
[1] "/home/user/folder1 in interation_1"
[1] "current_dir: /home/user"
[1] "/home/user/folder2 in interation_2"
[1] "current_dir: /home/user/folder1"
[1] "/home/user/folder3 in interation_3"
[1] "current_dir: /home/user/folder2"
[1] "end_dir: /home/user/folder3"
...私はこれを期待していましたが:
[1] "start_dir: /home/user"
[1] "/home/user/folder1 in interation_1"
[1] "current_dir: /home/user/folder1"
[1] "/home/user/folder2 in interation_2"
[1] "current_dir: /home/user/folder2"
[1] "/home/user/folder3 in interation_3"
[1] "current_dir: /home/user/folder3"
[1] "end_dir: /home/user/"
したがって、 current_dir に割り当てられたパスがやや「遅れている」ことがわかります...
これはなぜですか?私は R の専門家とはほど遠いので、何がこの動作を引き起こしているのか、そして最も重要なこととして、望ましい動作を実現する方法がわかりません。したがって、ヘルプ、ヒント、コードの修正/最適化は大歓迎です!
R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21) -- "Bug in Your Hair"
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)