[R] how to change the current directory to my folder.

Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Mon Jun 6 08:45:11 CEST 2005


Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> writes:

> On 6 June 2005 at 10:58, luan_sheng wrote:
> | I want to th current folder is the specific folder when R start.It is
> | very boring to modify the current directory manually. How can I do it?
> 
> The first answer to 
> 
> 	  > RSiteSearch("change directory")
> 
> tells you about setwd() and getwd().
> 
> There *are* good help facilities available. Please use them.
> 
> Hope this helps, Dirk

I think that's what the poster considers boring. On Windows, you can
also (a) modify the properties of the startup icon and/or start menu
entry (just change the "start in" field) or (b) save an R workspace
(possibly an empty one) in the relevant directory and start R by
double-clicking it.

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