Finding my Dropbox in R
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I’ll often keep non-sensitive data on Dropbox so that I can access it on all my machines without gumming up git. I just wrote a small script to find the Dropbox location on each of my computers automatically. The crucial information is available here, from Dropbox.
My small snippet of code is the following:
if (Sys.info()['sysname'] == 'Darwin') {
info <- RJSONIO::fromJSON(
file.path(path.expand("~"),'.dropbox','info.json'))
}
if (Sys.info()['sysname'] == 'Windows') {
info <- RJSONIO::fromJSON(
if (file.exists(file.path(Sys.getenv('APPDATA'), 'Dropbox','info.json'))) {
file.path(Sys.getenv('APPDATA'), 'Dropbox', 'info.json')
} else {
file.path(Sys.getenv('LOCALAPPDATA'),'Dropbox','info.json')
}
)
}
dropbox_base <- info$personal$path
I haven’t included the Linux option since I don’t really use a Linux box, but the Dropbox link above will show you where the info.json file lies in Linux. Also, if you have a business Dropbox account, you’ll probably need info$business$path.
Hope this helps!!!
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