Finding my Dropbox in R

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!!!