[R] changing directory (was system command)

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Nader Emami wrote:

> Hello,
>
> It is very simple question. I want to go to the parent directory and
> give the 'system("cd ../") commnad. But it stayes at the same dirctory
> as before. Do I forget to give some extra parameter to system command in
> this case?

That launches a shell, changes working directory in that shell, then quits.

setwd("..")  should do what I guess you intended, change the working
directory of the R process itself.

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