added way to direct os to home directory

settings.ini

 [DATA]
 data_folder_name = "datasets"
 use_data_file = False
-data_directory = "../well/win-biobank/projects/imaging/data/data3/subjectsAll/"
-data_file = "../well/win-biobank/projects/imaging/data/data3/subjectsAll/subj_22k.txt"
+data_directory = "/well/win-biobank/projects/imaging/data/data3/subjectsAll/"
+data_file = "/well/win-biobank/projects/imaging/data/data3/subjectsAll/subj_22k.txt"
 k_fold = None
 data_split_flag = False
 test_percentage = 5

utils/data_utils.py

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ def directory_reader(folder_location, subject_number=None, write_txt=False):
     number_of_subjects = 0
 
     if subject_number is None:
-        subject_number = len(os.listdir(folder_location))
+        subject_number = len(os.listdir(os.listdir(os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), folder_location))))
 
     for directory in os.listdir(folder_location):
         if number_of_subjects < subject_number: