File Path too Long?

[Seungju Kim]

Hello everyone, 

This is not a serious issue, yet one that I imagine many folks run into at one point. 

I use the here() function in R so that I can output files into smaller folders when running multiple models. This quickly raises issues of when file path can be greater than 90 characters. 
I wanted to ask how we can combat this WITHOUT moving the analyses closer to a root folder (that is a shorter file path).

Are there any functions or methods to resolve this issue? I can't believe Mplus doesn't do >90 character file paths.

[michael.hallquist]

Hi there,

You can use longer file paths for your data file by 1) quoting the file name and 2) breaking the path across lines (at the < 90-character mark) and not having any spaces on subsequent lines. This is what prepareMplusData does in the package, so you can also use that to handle long paths.

Here's an example of a setup that works.

Best,

Michael

TITLE:
MCFA CROSS-LOAD
DATA:
FILE = "~/Data_Analysis/Momentum/momentum_collab/code/ema/analysis/mplus_fa/
mcfa_cross1_bayes.dat";