create_from_github() seems to be permanently changing the working directory

[DavisVaughan]

In R, but not in RStudio, run something like this (you will have to tweak it for your directory)

usethis::create_from_github("r-lib/crayon", destdir = "~/files/r/packages/", fork = TRUE)

This should not launch a new RStudio session. It should keep you in the current R session.

However, if you then run getwd() it looks like it has left us permanently moved to the new crayon folder

> getwd()
[1] "/Users/davis/files/r/packages/crayon"

which is not desirable

[jennybc]

I think you're describing the intended behaviour outside of RStudio. The assumption is that you are creating a new project from GitHub AND that you want to now work on / in it.

I think to get the result you seemed to want, you should also specify open = FALSE.

[DavisVaughan]

Yea open = FALSE indeed keeps me in the same working directory

[jennybc]

So I think create_from_github() is working as designed and you just got somewhat surprised by the difference in behaviour inside RStudio (presumably what you experience more often) vs outside.