Doesn't work on Positron

[raffaelemancuso]

Seems this doesn't work on Positron on Windows, the package adds a forward slash at the start of the path and then cannot resolve it anymore:

See also posit-dev/positron#13910

[ArcadeAntics]

Hiya!

This is unfortunately an issue with Positron. I can explain the difference.

When you copy the code into the console and run it, your code has no source reference, and so this.path() determines the path using this.path:::.Positron_path(). This function works correctly, as you've seen.

However, when you run the code directly from the script, your code has a source reference (which Positron has added to your code). Unfortunately, Positron malforms its source references. It attempts to encode the string, with the goal being that under Unix-alikes, newlines and tabs and other unusual characters in filenames will print nicely. But Positron uses URLencode() which gives you an invalid file URL.

That being said, I have a workaround for this. You can get it by installing the current version from GitHub:

remotes::install_github("ArcadeAntics/this.path")

Please let me know if this works for you.

[ArcadeAntics]

Possible duplicate of #26