no such file or directory

[ppathak25]

Hello, I am new to this and I am able to access this. Please help me find the files.
rcea::use_rcea("/Projects/rcea-exercises")
Warning messages:
1: In file.create(to[okay]) :
cannot create file '/Projects/rcea-exercises/01-markov-cohort.R', reason 'No such file or directory'
2: In file.create(to[okay]) :
cannot create file '/Projects/rcea-exercises/02-markov-cohort-psa.R', reason 'No such file or directory'
3: In file.create(to[okay]) :
cannot create file '/Projects/rcea-exercises/03-markov-cohort-hesim.R', reason 'No such file or directory'
4: In file.create(to[okay]) :
cannot create file '/Projects/rcea-exercises/04-mstate.R', reason 'No such file or directory'
5: In file.create(to[okay]) :
cannot create file '/Projects/rcea-exercises/05-psm.R', reason 'No such file or directory'
6: In file.create(to[okay]) :
cannot create file '~/Projects/rcea-exercises/06-cea.R', reason 'No such file or directory'

[KavaStrophe]

Hello,

In case you are still looking for the solution, the issue is that use_rcea uses file.copy under the hood, which is suppposed to convert the ~ from~/Projects/rcea-exercises into C:/users/kavastrophe (which is taken from the environment variable R_USER or is C:/users/kavastrophe/Documents if it isn't set), so it should in theory copy the files into C:/users/kavastrophe/Projects/rcea-exercises.

However, the latest R language installations don't seem to set this environment variable anymore... so the ~ is never replaced and your computer has no idea where the correct folder is (because it will try to find C:/users/kavastrophe/Documents/Projects/rcea-exercises).

A workaround is to execute the code without the ~ character.
Executing the following will copy the files in the folder of you current active project:

rcea::use_rcea(".")

Executing the following will copy the files in the folder of the project as expected from the readme steps:

rcea::use_rcea("~/../Projects/rcea-exercises")